About ELVIS & KRESSE

About ELVIS & KRESSE

About ELVIS & KRESSE

About ELVIS & KRESSE

About ELVIS & KRESSE

Since 2005 Elvis & Kresse have been rescuing raw materials, transforming them into luxury lifestyle accessories, and donating 50% of profits back to charities. Our core collection is made from decommissioned fire-hose, 50% of the profits from this collection go to the Fire Fighters Charity. We have rescued all of London's decommissioned hoses since 2005. We now rescue 12 different wastes, including Burberry leather off-cuts, and have many charity partners. In 2021 Elvis & Kresse moved to a farm to establish a regenerative agriculture project, generate renewable energy and implement several environmental initiatives. We fell in love with Duraline hoses the moment we saw them piled up on a rooftop at a London fire station, awaiting an undignified death in landfill. Fire hoses are decommissioned for one of two reasons, they either reach the 25-year end of their health and safety life or they are too damaged to repair. They either miraculously survive 25 years of active service, or they die trying. We weren’t entrepreneurs in search of an idea, we didn’t set out to make luxury accessories. We simply wanted to save the hose. We couldn’t let these rich, durable, life-saving, lustrous coils of deep red nitrile rubber go. Elvis learned to sew. We started with a simple range of belts and grew slowly from there. So these hoses are still working hard, long after their first life. Imagine that, hoses that were supposed to die in landfill are instead helping injured firefighters.Read their story