BORN FROM THE
UNDERGROUND
WormBrand is not fashion. It's decomposition. Heavyweight 480 GSM hoodies, soil-dyed tees, worm-compost philosophy. We design for those who live below the surface — skaters, ravers, growers, diggers. Wear the rot. Become the soil.
SOIL
DYED ★
We don't make clothes. We grow them.
WormBrand.net started in 2016 in a basement worm farm in Echo Park. We fed textile waste to red wigglers and watched what survived. What survived became our first collection. Today we run a creative biology lab + streetwear label obsessed with decay, soil and underground culture.
From worm bin to runway
Every WormBrand piece is garment-dyed with real soil pigments, iron rust and compost tea. Then buried for 7 days. Then unearthed, washed and finished by hand. No two pieces are identical. Fades, stains and holes are features, not defects.
- ✓Soil-dye lab: 14 natural pigments from California + Berlin soils. Zero synthetic dyes since 2021.
- ✓Worm compost loop: 1kg of textile scraps = 1kg of vermicompost for urban farms. We composted 12 tons in 2025.
- ✓480 GSM fleece: Boxy, dropped shoulders, double-layer hood. Built to rot beautifully for 10 years.
- ✓Underground drops: 300 pieces per colorway. Sold out in 11 minutes last drop. Never reprinted.
Drop 07: ROT / REBIRTH
7 pieces. 3 colorways: Topsoil Black, Wiggler Pink, Compost Lime. Heavyweight, boxy, pre-rotted. When it's gone, it's soil.
Rot is the new new.
Fashion wants you shiny, new, disposable. We want you dirty, patched, alive. A WormBrand hoodie is supposed to fade, tear and stain. Patch it. Bury it. Compost it. The worm eats, the soil remembers, the style remains. We are 40,000 diggers worldwide who refuse restocks, refuse fast fashion, refuse to stay on the surface.
01 / NO RESTOCKS
300 pieces. Then the screens are burned. Owning WormBrand means owning a fossil.
02 / SOIL FIRST
Every order funds 1 sqm of urban worm farm in LA, Berlin and Kyiv.
03 / WEAR THE ROT
Lifetime free repairs. Send it back, we patch it with compost canvas.
How we rot a hoodie in 7 days
Our Echo Park lab combines textile science + vermiculture. Here's the ritual every Drop 07 piece goes through.
CUT HEAVY
480 GSM organic fleece, boxy block, made in family factory.
DYE SOIL
Bath in soil pigment + iron + compost tea. No synthetics.
BURY
Buried in worm beds 7 days for natural distress & patina.
REBIRTH
Unearthed, washed, puff-printed, numbered by hand.
Will it shrink / fade?
Yes — intentionally. Pre-shrunk, but soil dye lives. Wash cold inside-out. Fading is the design evolving.
Is it really compostable?
Hoodie body is 100% cotton + natural dye. Remove zipper/drawcords and it will compost in 90-180 days in active worm bin.
How do drops work?
Drops announced in journal + SMS. 300 pcs per color. No restocks. Resale allowed, fakes composted on sight.
Where do you ship?
Worldwide from LA + Berlin hubs in plastic-free worm-box. Free repairs for life.
Fresh from the soil
Drops, soil science, lookbooks, worm farm reports and colony stories. This is the WormBrand news feed — same stories live on their own pages.
Drop 07 sold out in 11 minutes — Drop 08 composting now
Our fastest sellout yet. 300 topsoil hoodies gone. Next burial starts Monday.
How we make soil-black without synthetic dye
Iron + tannin + worm tea recipe breakdown from our dye master.
Berlin worm farm harvest: 2 tons of streetwear compost
Textile scraps to tomatoes. Full loop report with photos.
Get Drop 08 before it rots away
SMS + email early access. No spam, only soil. 11-min sellout last time — don't sleep underground.
★ free repairs for life ★ plastic-free worm-box ★ 1 order = 1 sqm worm farm