About RIVED

Fashion upcycling needs better infrastructure.

Community. Action. Evidence. RIVED is the digital ecosystem for fashion upcyclers — bringing the movement together, easing the making, and proving the impact

From innovation that drives consumption to innovation that unleashes creativity, craft, and personalization — because that's what this moment demands

Our Vision

A new fashion model: from take-make-waste to wear-reimagine-recreate Reducing waste and elevating human skill

Our Mission

Upcycling is fashion's most powerful value extraction layer.

It captures material, emotional, and economic value after a garment is produced, sold, worn, and before it becomes waste.

Our mission is to enable fashion upcycling to scale, not through mass production, replication, or standardization. RIVED is creating the purpose-built infrastructure that makes upcycling accessible while preserving what makes it powerful: the craft, the creativity, the care in every one-of-a-kind piece.

The team

Built across business, product, fashion redesign, and engineering.

Business & Finance

AnaMaria Quijano-W., business and finance lead at RIVED

AnaMaria

Quijano-W.

20+ years across project management, operations, business development, sustainability, and investing, working at the intersection of impact and business.

Economist. Master Sustainable Business. Master International Management.

Product & User Experience

Adrian Aguirre, product and user experience lead at RIVED

Adrian

Aguirre

15+ years in digital product design and strategy, bridging design and technology from prototyping to scalable platforms across UX/UI, service design, and front-end development.

Product and Strategic Design for Innovation.

Fashion Redesign

Josefina Coll, fashion redesign lead at RIVED

Josefina

Coll

15+ years in fashion redesign and upcycling, building a brand around upcycling services, workshops, and collaborations with brands and corporates.

Fashion Designer.

Engineering

Chris MacPherson, engineering lead at RIVED

Chris

MacPherson

20+ years building software products and platforms, from senior engineering to leading teams at Wolt, Personio, and Klarna. Full-stack, back-end, and DevOps.

Software Engineer.