This NYC store can repair, customize, or upcycle anything—even your ex’s sweater.
“We just aren't in the business of hiding the journey of a garment,” adds Park. “A dress three times salvaged with visible stitching and your grandfather’s leather patch is a lot more exciting to me than something that looks like it’s never been worn. Hopefully we are telling a bigger truth of what it means to own our own stories.”
The duo mined basements, gas stations, and fishermen’s closets in Louisiana to find the accoutrements that now line their shop, taking the same approach their grandmothers took to mending when they were growing up. So, they decided to name the shop after Park’s grandmother, Eva, and Villeneuve’s grandmother, Joan. “Eva is the ultimate mender. There was not a thing of my childhood that wasn’t reinterpreted to have more magic,” explains Park.
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