Valentina Meersohn

Valentina Greene is the creator and designer of the textile upcycling brand Green-e. A professional photographer with studies in industrial design and makeup, she took her first steps in fashion in 2009 when she opened a small boutique selling clothing imported from Argentina, where she spent several seasons and attended various workshops related to art and photography.

In 2015, with the desire to create her own designs and develop her own language, she took a course in cutting and tailoring, a key tool for personal experimentation in the world of fashion. Enthusiastic about this new world to discover, she closed her boutique and focused on developing her first pieces. Passionate about vintage and second-hand clothing since her adolescence, she visited fairs and markets in search of original and quality pieces to reuse in her designs. This is how she began her journey in upcycling, and by the end of 2017, she created her own sustainable brand, “Green-E.”

“The motivation behind my work is to recover discarded pieces to give them new life and revalue them. Upcycling allows me not only to express my own aesthetic language but also to show the narrative of each reused piece. With my work, I aim to visualize and inform about new, less-polluting textile practices that align more with today’s times.”