An Edinburgh designer is set to launch his first store in the city, after building a brand ‘out of nothing’.
Mickey Ellis, who grew up in Corstorphine, created a brand with an ‘important message’ after struggling through various roles in the fashion industry. Hit & Run, which is a one-man operation, creates made-to-order t-shirts and sweaters with an anti-fast fashion ethos.
The designer launched the brand as an ‘antithesis to a creatively barren and environmentally devastating fast-fashion industry.’ We caught up with Mickey on his home turf of Leith. He told Edinburgh Live: “Coming back to Edinburgh after 24 years, it doesn’t feel that different to me.
