Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat by Kestutis Lekeckas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Competition Category.
BronzeFashion· 2025
Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat
Client: Fashion House Lekeckas
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Fashion Category
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About Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat
While it is possible to explore almost every corner of the Earth on computer screens, is it possible to rediscover the world? This collection is inspired by receding views of Earth, where buildings, streets, and cars fade, leaving only geometrized contours. Coats made from sewing industry waste, it leads a new sustainable aesthetic. The textures of the fabrics resemble shifting landscapes, like maps seen from above, urging reflection on sustainability and global political tensions. The coat symbolizes warmth, offering refuge against life’s fragility and the uncertainty of changing world.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Where to Get It
Sustainable Fashion Design and Bespoke Tailoring
We create sophisticated menswear combining Lithuanian heritage with zero-waste innovation. Our award-winning studio offers custom tailoring, ready-to-wear collections, and sustainable design services using premium natural materials.
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Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to transforming sewing industry waste into the Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat presents a powerful commentary on sustainability - could you elaborate on how this design process challenges traditional fashion production methods?
While traditional fashion production remains essential today, it often lacks the tools or vision to shift toward true sustainability. A more responsible path forward would combine high-quality, natural materials with long-lasting design principles. At the same time, integrating the creative use of offcuts and even defective textiles into limited-edition, artisanal production could form a cohesive system—offering the industry a viable model for transitioning toward circular, sustainable practices without abandoning its core.
The geometric patterns in the Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat evoke aerial landscapes and shifting territories - how did global political tensions influence your artistic vision for this collection?
Global political tensions, especially the redrawing of borders through military force, had a profound impact on this collection. The fragmented fabrics in the Undiscovered Landscapes coats reflect the instability and complexity of today’s world. The map-like visuals are not just aesthetic; they symbolize the shifting mental and geopolitical landscapes we are all navigating. Through this work, I wanted to show how fragile our systems are and how urgently we need to rethink them, not only politically, but also in how we produce, consume, and relate to material things.
Could you share the intricate process of sourcing, sorting, and combining different high-quality natural wool fabrics like merino, cashmere, and alpaca to create the unique textures in the Undiscovered Landscapes Sustainable Coat?
The process begins with sourcing leftover, high-quality natural wool fabrics such as merino, cashmere, and alpaca from local production facilities. These are often small offcuts or pieces with minor flaws that would otherwise be discarded. Each fragment is carefully examined, sorted, and classified based on its thickness, elasticity, texture, and drape.From there, a compositional process begins. Rather than forcing uniformity, I allow the fabrics’ differences to guide the design. Thicker, more structured pieces are used for areas that need support, like shoulders or collars, while softer, more flexible ones are placed where movement is needed. The goal is not only to ensure functionality but to create a visual language through contrast.The assembly of fragments is intuitive and slow, like building a collage. Seams become both structural and expressive elements, forming patterns that resemble aerial landscapes. It is a process of translating waste into meaningful design, where every texture tells part of the story.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Sustainable coats made from production waste, typically discarded, aim to promote a zero-waste production vision. Only the highest-quality natural wool fabrics, such as merino, cashmere, and alpaca, are used. By combining fabric pieces, Lithuanian folk heritage and traditional patchwork techniques are incorporated. Fabrics in various colors, textures and structures form a map-like pattern, symbolizing the complex global situation and the need to redraw our mental maps for a sustainable future.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Unique pieces are sewn using the standard sizing system, but they can be altered, adjusted, and individualized, and made to order.
- Tags
- sustainable fashion, men's fashion, coat, unisex coat, lekeckas, kestutis lekeckas, sustainability, sustainable design, circular design, fashion
- Production Technology
- Zero-waste technology – made from production waste. Patchwork techniques inspired by Lithuanian heritage. All materials are of natural origin.
- Design Challenge
- The complexity of the design process lies in combining different materials with varying compositions, thicknesses, structures, and types. A sufficient amount of scraps must be collected and sorted, and the design style cannot be predetermined, as the design process is closely integrated with the cutting process. Due to limited quantities and material parameters, the use of fabric pieces is restricted. Additionally, to maximize resource utilization, the geometric parameters of the details are carefully considered. Accessories are made from the smallest scraps.
- Research
- Delving into the specifics of the Lithuanian national costume, especially the coat design, in order to reproduce the details of identity in the coat design, as well as into the Lithuanian patchwork art, in order to adapt it to the connection of details from different materials
- Inspiration
- Amidst ongoing military conflicts and the efforts of powerful forces to redraw maps, sustainability issues are often sidelined. In this shifting world, art, fashion, and individual choices become vital forms of resistance and expression. Through conscious design, fashion sparks reflection, encouraging others to consider the consequences of their actions and the impact of global shifts on the future.
- Project Duration
- The coats presented are made for the 2024/25 season, but the aim is for them to remain relevant for multiple seasons, focusing on timeless design and slow fashion principles. This is the first coat collection belonging to our ongoing zero-waste project, inspired by the sustainable suit design that won gold at the "Design Award & Competition" 2020/21. This design has evolved from a limited collection into a long-term project.
- Operation Flow
- Models can be repaired and updated in our design studio, taking into account the specifics of production (made from pieces), it is easy to replace worn parts of the material with new ones, additional cuttings can be introduced, so after updating the product can look completely new, it corresponds to the circular design category.
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Migle Golubickaite,
Hair style: Kristina Gorodeckiene,
Model: Samuele Francesconi MBOYS agency,
Assistant: Alina Kusaite.
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