A New Home for…Next Season
Anne Warren has always loved fashion, but for years, she couldn’t see how to make it work the way she wanted it to. She spent a decade inside New York’s early-stage tech startup scene, wondering if she could ever combine her passion for apparel design with her mechanical engineering background and her curiosity for how things scale.
She found her answer in something surprisingly old-school: knitting.
Under her label Next Season, Anne turns textile “waste” and deadstock yarn into fresh, one-of-a-kind knitwear.
Until now, she’s done it all from her living room.
In June, she signed the lease for her first studio at Industry City, a sprawling, renovated warehouse campus in Sunset Park, Brooklyn that’s now home to artists, small makers, and creative businesses. It felt like both a milestone and a risk.
Moving into a commercial space was the easy part. “Cool Hand Movers made the whole moving experience seamless and worry-free; I have a couple of vintage knitting machines that were handled with extreme care. And I was so glad to have the option for reusable boxes, which allowed us to stay true to Next Season’s circular values and minimize waste!"
A few days after the move, Anne found two secondhand furniture pieces on Facebook Marketplace, including a sturdy new work table. Our team picked them up and delivered them straight to her new door.
One piece at a time, the blank room started to feel like Next Season’s next chapter: a space where thrifted yarn, reclaimed furniture, and big ideas come together to prove that circular fashion can work — if you’re willing to build it by hand and keep moving forward.
For Anne, this studio is more than an address. It’s the hands-on lab for her vision: a circular system, one sweater at a time. For us, it’s a reminder that the best moves aren’t just about boxes, they’re about giving New Yorkers the space to build what matters.
