Finisterre Launches Recycled Denim Capsule With Reskinned and DagobaireIt

Finisterre dropped The Resurge on March 17, 2026, a tightly edited two-piece denim capsule built from fabric that didn't exist in its current form until the brand pulled together recycling specialist Reskinned and French recycler DagobaireIt to engineer it from scratch.

The resulting fabric is composed of 30% post-consumer cotton recycled from old denim, blended with 30% pre-consumer recycled cotton and 40% recycled polyester. That blend is the real story here. Getting post-consumer denim feedstock to a quality where it can anchor a sellable garment, not just show up as a marketing footnote, is notoriously difficult. The post-consumer cotton feedstock was developed through the collaboration between Reskinned and French recyclers Dagobaire, transforming old denim into new textile fibres through advanced recycling processes and strong supply-chain partnerships.

The collection centres on reimagining classic workwear, bringing to life a new aesthetic for Finisterre inspired by vintage French workwear styles. The launch takes the form of a small capsule for men and women, featuring two core pieces each. The lineup is lean by design: the Denim Chore Jacket at £155, based on the brand's bestselling Yarrel chore jacket but with a shorter, boxier fit, and the Denim Trouser at £130, based on its Studio Cord Trousers. Both cuts read as workwear archetypes rerouted through a sustainability lens, the kind of silhouettes that hold their shape across a decade of wear rather than a single season.

Ross Barry, co-founder of Reskinned, said: "We've been working with Finisterre for some time now, so it's great to see them using this recycled material in the Resurge collection. It shows how discarded garments can be transformed into new textile fibres and brought back into everyday clothing."

That relationship has depth. Since 2021, Finisterre has operated a takeback scheme in partnership with Reskinned, storing end-of-life knitwear until a responsible solution for recycling the materials could be found. The Resurge is the denim iteration of that same logic applied to a harder material problem, denim being notoriously fiber-degrading when mechanically recycled.

The Resurge capsule is available exclusively via finisterre.com and in select stores. At £155 for the jacket, it prices comparably to Finisterre's standard outerwear range, which is worth noting: the recycled content doesn't come with a sustainability premium tax slapped on top. For a brand that started in 2003 making fleeces for cold-water surfers out of a cliffside workshop in Cornwall, pivoting into engineered recycled denim with a Franco-British supply chain is a meaningful expansion of what circularity looks like at a specialist outdoor label.