MY STORY
Hello there. My name is Marta.
I’ve always being drawn to the creative side of things.
It all started with a needle and thread, when I learnt how to cross stitch at a primary school in Madrid run by nuns. Then at 12, I felt the coolest when I hand-embroidered my frayed denim shorts with vibrant, coloured daisies. I definitely owe to my stylish mum, a love for fabrics and fashion. I still own a colourful Kenzo blouse that she bought in the 80s.
While in high school, I also learnt fashion design and pattern making. In my 20s, I had two small clothing brands at the same time I was studying Sociology at uni. I wrote a thesis on fashion advertising and was hired by an ad agency.
I bought my first pre-loved piece of fashion in 1990 in Manhattan, when I visited New York as a tourist for the first time. I found the beautiful thrift store Housing Works in Chelsea and I got a lovely Bloomingdale’s woollen, bucket hat made in Italy (maybe in the 60s, judging by the label typeface) that I still have and wear to Coogee’s McIver’s Ladies Baths in winter. See pic below.
And, I still remember, discovering another second-hand clothing store in Alphabet City in the late 90s, and stuffing a bag with all the pieces I could fit in for just $20 at the time! The pic below is of me in Mexico City wearing one of the vibrant jumpsuits I scored.
In the mid 90s I moved to New York City, the best personal investment I’ve done in my life – being submerged in a melting pot of extraordinary creative people and artistic expressions of all kinds. There, I learnt floral design, the Western one and ikebana. I mixed it up, making ads and flower arrangements for some of the best agencies and floral studios in Manhattan.
When I landed in Sydney in 2018, looking for a reinvention, I decided to go back to my first creative love, fashion.
MY WHY
The fashion industry has totally changed since the 80s, though. I admit I come from the land of Zara, where fast fashion was invented. Now I live in the land down-under, where Australians have become the world’s largest consumers of textiles - much of which ends up in landfill.
Today, I consciously design and make clothes in the most sustainable and ethical way possible.
We are in talks with The Social Outfit -a maker that trains and employs refugee and migrant women– to do production with us. They’ve already made a couple of the one-of-a-kind Sissi Blouses with doily cuffs for the “Dainty and Dangerous” collection.
For me, it’s the only way forward. At Mine, Yours, Theirs:
🧵 We design for longevity and circularity,
🧵 we favour natural fibres and remnant fabrics
🧵 we manufacture locally in Sydney
🧵 we adore and revive craftsmanship
🧵 we produce small runs to avoid waste
MY BRAND
We want to give a second chance to the remnant fabrics we source, vintage embellishment details we fetch, and the pieces of clothing we make.
And we want to encourage people to pass along their Mine, Yours, Theirs pieces.
We want to build a label and a community to keep clothes alive and honour the people who make them and keep wearing them.
Clothes can become heirlooms, get better with time, like wine, and carry forward the story of the people who wore them before.
