–by Christine Deleon Finding expression at the intersections of fashion, South Asian community and queer culture London designer Rahemur Rahman came onto my radar in 2022 at the Victoria and … Read more
Not-so-fun fact: New Yorkers throw out 200,000 tons of clothing, shoes, accessories and linens every year. In this series, we’re looking at people and organizations who are changing the way … Read more
Amanda McCarty is the person behind the Clotheshorse podcast that loves clothes but hates capitalism! She’s also the designer/writer of its unique and unforgettable Instagram. With an aesthetic that repurposes … Read more
Sustainable fashion advocate and host of the hugely popular Wardrobe Crisis podcast, Clare Press, understands the impact fashion has on the environment and the importance of sustainable choices. In this … Read more
Instagram might be best known as our default destination for killing time. But to Nergiz De Baere, it can be an effective tool for disseminating knowledge about tough topics, like … Read more
Sera Ghadaki is a Brooklyn based designer who works at the intersection of fashion + architecture + sustainability.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Resin rings might be all the rage but that plastic is positively toxic! Meet Mecca & Mia -2 designers creating pop art jewelry from bioplastic!
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…
Vera Banas shares with us how she is using her skills to make fashion truly more sustainable.
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.
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.
Katini Yamaoka + Jordan Bryant are 2 talents to watch in 2022
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.
Meet the designer creating insanely chic bags from cactus leather
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
“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
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
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.
“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
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.
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
Our fave Depop Designer – Jeremy Salazar is one to watch!