Emergency Room

EDITOR'S NOTE

Eric Mathieu Ritter founded Emergency Room in Beirut in 2018, and the premise has not shifted: every garment is built from locally sourced vintage cloth and deadstock, cut and stitched by tailors in Beirut and Tripoli, and made one of a kind by necessity rather than marketing. The result is gender-fluid and conceptually serious, carpets turned into kimonos and hoodies, patchwork tailoring, fringed and bejewelled caps. The Fashion Trust Arabia Franca Sozzani Award followed, but the upcycling here predates the recognition and the crisis it responded to. What earns Emergency Room a place is that the sustainability is structural, not a claim, and the clothes still hold up as clothes.

From Emergency Room.

DROPPED SHOULDER DENIM SHIRT (BLUE)

DENIM CUT JACKET (BLUE)

UPCYCLED WIDE-LEG PATCHWORK DENIM PANTS (BLUE)

T-SHIRT 'WOUJOUD'

T-SHIRT 'SARAHA'

T-SHIRT 'LUGGAGE TAG' PRINTED

T-SHIRT 'DAWA'

SLEEVELESS T-SHIRT 'WOUJOUD'

BLACK 'TEDDY' WEATER

BLACK 'LUGGAGE TAG' HOODIE

BLACK 'WOUJOUD' HOODIE

EMERGENCY ROOM BEIRUT HOODIE (WHITE)

T-SHIRT 'KABREET'

DROPPED SHOULDER JACKET (BROWN)

LOW WAISTED PANTS CHECKERED (BLACK AND GREY)

LOW WAISTED SILK PANTS (PINK)

WIDE CUT KIMONO 012

WIDE CUT KIMONO 002

DROPPED SHOULDER JACKET (GREEN)

DROPPED SHOULDER JACKET (DARK CAMEL)

DENIM CUT JACKET ( BLACK FRINGES)

BOMBER JACKET (LIGHT BLUE AND BEIGE)

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EARRINGS 002

EARRINGS 003

EARRINGS 001

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