Singapore throws away 168,000 tonnes of textile waste every single year. That is the weight of about 28,000 elephants — going straight to Semakau Landfill or the incinerator. And it is not because people do not care. It is because there has not been a convenient alternative.
We started Refit because we saw the same pattern everywhere: wardrobes full of clothes that do not get worn, and a default instinct to buy new whenever we want something fresh. The existing options — posting on Carousell and dealing with lowballers, or donating to a bin that probably ships your clothes overseas — did not feel like real solutions.
So we built something different. A marketplace designed specifically for fashion, with three ways to keep clothes moving: buy, rent, and swap. Every listing gets AI-powered auto-fill to make selling effortless. Every purchase is protected by escrow so buyers feel safe. And features like virtual try-on and personal shopper make discovering preloved pieces genuinely fun.
We are starting in Singapore because this is home, and because the density and community here makes peer-to-peer fashion work. Meet-ups are easy. Shipping is cheap. And the fashion scene is already incredible — it just needs a better way to circulate.
Right now we have over 960 listings from real people closets. That is real inventory — not a curated boutique, but a collective wardrobe that keeps growing. Our next milestone: getting the first 1,000 active buyers and proving that sustainable fashion can be the default, not the exception.
If you have got clothes sitting unused, list them. If you are looking for something new-to-you, browse. Either way, you are part of the shift.