Sera Ghadaki –“Making” in the age of climate change
Sera Ghadaki is a Brooklyn based designer who works at the intersection of fashion + architecture + sustainability.
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On Vivienne Westwood’s Manifesto of Active Resistance
Vivienne Westwood contained multitudes. She was a pioneer of punk, a star of haute couture, and a crusading global activist. And, less often recognized, a philosopher to boot. Underneath her work in all realms lay a consistent commitment to truth, captured well in her 2007 manifesto Active Resistance to Propagan
Our Top 10 Interviews from 2022
The subjects range from sustainable fashion experts/advocates to designers working with bio-materials to a certain New York City nightlife legend. They’re all different from one another but they have a commonality. They are independent minded. They think for themselves. They’re doing things beyond the status quo.
What Exactly IS Sustainable Fashion? We Asked An Expert!
There’s no one answer but there are ways of answering it for yourself… Tara St. James was one of the first names I heard when I first learned about “Sustainable … Read more
Meet Rosie Broadhead, the Futuristic Designer Making Clothes with Skin-nurturing Probiotics
Looking for a bodysuit that can actually make you feel better in your own skin? Rosie Broadhead, designer – textile scientist, may have the ultimate solution. She designs a line … Read more
Paula Ulargui Escalona | Green Grows Her Clothes
Fashion is getting more and more innovative, and Anderson’s Loewe menswear 2023 undoubtedly is an example of that. On the Metaverse runway, viewers saw living greenery – chia plants and … Read more
Sex, Punk &…Knitwear? Yes! Says designer Tati
Tatjana Haupt, is not your conventional young designer. Based in France, Tatjana, who often goes by the name Tati, is pushing fearless feminism and empowerment, one knit design at a … Read more
The African Fashion Scene: An Interview with Insider Hadeel Osman
A lot of Western media is biased towards west Africa – people talk about Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa and nobody really talks about the rest of the continent. But we have fashion markets and creative economies in east, north, and central Africa as well, and I do think that it is important to highlight them.
8 Questions With NYC Insider (+ Our Style Crush) Francesca Vuillemin
We feel lucky to have on our team Francesca Vuillemin who is also the best Astrologer in NYC and a noted Sustainability Influencer. (no, we’re not biased!) One of the … Read more
Mo.Na Gems –BioPlastic and SO Fantastic
Resin rings might be all the rage but that plastic is positively toxic! Meet Mecca & Mia -2 designers creating pop art jewelry from bioplastic!
The Unexpected Interior of a Nightlife Legend
Kenny Kenny has been a part of NYC nightlife since the ’80s. If you were out at night, it was impossible not to know him. But what you wouldn’t know is that his interior life was as creative as anything you’d see at a club…
Meet Vera Banas: ANDEL co-founder, Fulbright Scholar + materials researcher working to change the future of fashion.
Vera Banas shares with us how she is using her skills to make fashion truly more sustainable.
Our Favorite Fashion Influencers You Need To Know
The women featured here range from students to CEOs and are vastly different in how they’re approaching the fashion industry but they’re all innovative and worth watching as we all continue to invent the future of fashion together.
Safe Sex Turns Me On…an interview with Nate & Hila
Nate & Hila combine elements of Hip-Hop, comedy and performance art to stir the heart and stimulate the mind about the state of things on the planet Earth in the 21st Century.
Bringing the Light: Meet Two Brooklyn Creatives Doing Just That
Katini Yamaoka + Jordan Bryant are 2 talents to watch in 2022
TômTex’s Vegan Leather is Gorgeous & Eco-Friendly
Growing up in Vietnam, fashion designer Chloe Uyen Tran saw textile pollution firsthand. This inspired her to pivot to materials and she founded TomTex: a bio-based leather.
Interview with Mónica Santos Gil: founder of Santos by Monica
Meet the designer creating insanely chic bags from cactus leather
An interview with Shannon Downey aka Badass Cross Stitch
from insta to IRL how @badasscrossstitch is bringing craftivism (& Rita’s Quilt!) to a community near you A lot of people have followers on social media. Very few of … Read more
Anna Sacks aka The Trashwalker is showing us the treasures NYC throws away
“I always try to focus on the systems and not any individuals. I don’t want to blame any individuals. The people I want to blame are the people who have … Read more
One to Watch: Tara Babylon
TLDR: Tara Babylon is a British-Iraqi sustainable fashion designer & performance artist based in New York. She is an alumni of CSM, Parsons MFA and holds scholarships and prestigious awards … Read more
One to Watch: Abiola Onabulé The London designer who brings Nigerian heritage into limited-Edition clothings
Abiola Onabule wants to reimagine the fashion world in her own terms – a world that is built on the three pillars of Nigerian textile crafts, local production, and personal narratives woven into clothes.
One to Watch: Emma Gage of MELKE
“Honestly, sustainability is tough. It’s a lot of work, but we promise to always try our best, to never cut any corners, and to be fully transparent.[…] Things won’t be … Read more
Meet Rebecca Rivera, the bi-coastal fashion designer that creates clothes from post-consumer products.
I’ve always loved “the hunt” of shopping at a thrift store, and now I get to do it for my label, because that is where I source my materials.
From the end of the world to the top: Sustainable Fashion Designer Juliana Garcia Bello
Prefer to read in Spanish? Click here! “By telling stories I realized that García Bello is not me, but rather a voice inside many people sharing the same narrative” Argentine … Read more
From street art to Depop phenomenon: Jeremy Salazar is the unconventional streetwear designer to watch!
Our fave Depop Designer – Jeremy Salazar is one to watch!
A Convo with Changemaker Krystal Persaud of Group Hug Solar
The inventor of the portable solar charger.
Our interview with Elizabeth Nistico/Revenge Wife
beautifully vulnerable, conceptual, alternative pop –that makes you get up and dance
Redress Design Award Winner Le Ngoc Ha Thu
Le Ngoc Ha Thu The reason why I embrace that label (“sustainable designer”) is because that’s my career motto. That’s a promise I’ve made to myself and it’s also a … Read more
Interview with Designer Aisling Duffy
We spoke with UK based designer Aisling Duffy about her whimsical, upcycled, instagram friendly designs.
How Lily Fulop’s Mindful Mending Sparks Conversations and Change
Lily Fulop and her book Wear, Repair, Repurpose Twenty-four year old visual designer and author Lily Fulop began the Instagram account Mindful Mending as part of a school project in … Read more