About me

Founded in 2016 in London, The Marcon Court Project is taking small steps to break down the destructive model set out by the fast-fashion industry. 


Trained first in Spain before completing a three year apprenticeship with Saville Row, Laura Casas has spent her adult life developing her skills as a seamstress, pattern-maker and artist.

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Make items well

and make them last

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Approach

Strong colours, shapes, textures and print transmit a message of joy.

 Informed from the world around us, The Marcon Court Project is always changing and developing, responding to each new series drop with complete enthusiasm and total dedication.

Intersectionality

As a woman of colour systemic issues in the world are all too apparent. Time spent working within the fashion world and later with charities supporting the exploited workers of it, really taught me how wide spread and deeply rooted these issues are. Intersectionalists join the dots between all these ‘smaller’ ‘separate’ ‘distant’ problems, as they’re often portrayed.

Seeing them as one larger interconnected ecosystem of explotation, both human and environmental, that needs to be dismantled. Awareness, education and communication are our means for growth, and I am grateful for this platform to help raise awareness.

Our sustainability pledge.

  • After petrochemicals and agriculture , the fashion industry is the third worst global polluter.

    The culture of fast, disposable fashion is destroying our planet and causing tens of thousands of avoidable deaths of vulnerable workers each year.

    We stand against this destructive industry and aim to be as ethical and sustainable as possible.

  • All of our garments are made in London. They are lovingly crafted by Laura and our experienced freelance seamstresses from their own studios.

    They are paid by the hour and above the London Living Wage.

    We revise wages on a yearly basis in order to keep up with interest rates.

    In order to ensure a healthy working environment each one of our seamstress are given 4-6 weeks to complete your orders. This gives them the ability to have a manageable work-life balance and to pursue other creative projects.

  • We use all sort of materials, from garments that already exist or vintage fabrics to sustainably made and deadstock fabrics.

    We aim to make our clothing in a responsible way and produce creating the least amount of waste possible.

  • We use recycled cardboard boxes, compostable mailers and recyclable thank you cards.

    We try to avoid using tissue paper, but when we do, we use acid free tissue paper. We usually wrap our orders using second hand ribbons that you can reuse to wrap presents or to decorate your hair.

    Our postal labels are compostable so you can put your mailers straight into your caddy.