KEEN Harvest is an ongoing SMU collection derived from the salvation of various materials to be up-cycled into a renewed KEEN accessory product. This SS18/SS19 line consists of twice recycled denim coffee bags from Nossa Familia Coffee, a local brewer with farms in Guatemala & Nicaragua.

Nossa’s farms take denim scraps from local jean manfucaturers and shred them to a state they can be re-woven into strong textiles to hold pounds and pounds of their South American coffee beans. In an effort to mitigate industry waste, KEEN has taken in the ~2,000 coffee bags in waste to produce a collection of everyday accessories.

In collaboration with one other KEEN designer, we created a collection of zippered travel cases, snap pouches, and totes with a soft cotton twill liner, locally sourced Horween leather accents, and brass hardware details to deliver an elevated heritage aesthetic.