We’re The Social Studio: a not-for-profit label, fashion school and manufacturer

Explore the latest collection in our shop → Autumn-Winter 2026

We help nurture Australia's next generation of fashion designers and creatives from refugee, asylum seeking and culturally diverse backgrounds.

About the studio

  • School

    Our free, accredited fashion school equips refugee and migrant creatives with new and practical skills.

  • Retail

    We work with deadstock fabrics to create garments that last, and sell work by our students and other culturally diverse makers.

  • Manufacturing

    All our production services are ethical, low-MOQ (minimum order quantity) and direct from our Collingwood studio.

  • Mend

    Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We transform and mend well-loved clothes to continue their story.

1000+

talented humans through studio programs since 2009

$1m+

in wages to refugees and asylum seekers since we began

20+

tonnes of textile waste diverted from landfill