Family at City of Vincent Clothes Swap, 2024
Rewear.
Repair.
Rethink.
Care to Rewear brings circular fashion to life through hands-on community activations, repair education, and city-wide events, making textile sustainability something people can experience, participate in, and remember.
Turning sustainability into action
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The Mending Machine
Australia's only pedal-powered textile repair hub.
No battery so when the pedalling stops, the sewing stops. A visceral, memorable experience that stops people in their tracks -
Great Global Mend
A city-wide simultaneous mending event across Perth councils , an unofficial world record attempt. 2025: 15 councils, 310 kg diverted, 2.48t CO₂e avoided.
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Clothes Swaps
Fully facilitated community and corporate clothes swaps with a quality token system and circular fashion messaging. Delivered across Perth councils and workplaces.
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Textile Games
A professionally produced suite of physical education games for Foundation through Year 12, adults, and CALD communities. Curriculum-aligned, universally accessible.
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Volunteer With Us
We always grateful to welcome passionate, dedicated and reliable volunteers, especially for our Swaps and other Events.
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Workshops & Talks
A storytelling-driven workshop tracing fast fashion's impact from global supply chains to local choices including how marketing and greenwashing shape consumer behaviour, and what to actually do about it. 60–90 minutes.
For Schools, Councils & Corporates
Save the Date
Great Global
Mend 2026
Saturday 7 November 2026 at 11:00 am
Now open to councils, universities, TAFEs, businesses, community organisations, and online participants across regional WA and beyond. Anyone with a needle and thread can take part - free online participation available.
Stéphanie Pontet
Care to Rewear was born from a life lived at the intersection of community, care, and circularity. As a young volunteer in Paris, Stéphanie worked with organisations supporting people experiencing homelessness, an experience that planted a deep belief that sustainability must have a human heart.
Years later, as a Circular Economy Officer in Perth with a background in law and water management, she began building initiatives that push sustainability beyond the environmental and into the genuinely social from the pedal-powered Mending Machine to a world record mending attempt coordinated across 15 Perth councils.
Stéphanie is multilingual (English, French, Italian), and has delivered over 100 clothes swaps, developed curriculum-aligned textile education programs for schools across WA, and facilitated sustainability education for councils, corporates, schools, and CALD communities.
Meet the Founder
