Fall is here and that means holiday shopping is just around the corner.If you’ve ever considered joining us as a Curator, now is a great time. November and December are by far our busiest months (which means maximum commissions for you!)We’ll set you up with a Starter Kit of products and a free website, you share your link and offer a thoughtfully handmade holiday gift option to your network. Rumor has it that later this year we’ll have a special Holiday Gift Shop with more giftables than ever before. Our Starter Kits range from $99-$299 and contain up to a $915 retail value of merchandise great for wearing, showing off, or selling. Need a little help funding your eco-journey? We...
How to Stay Engaged and Interested with your Minimalist Sustainable Wardrobe The single-most questioned thing about minimalist wardrobes is this: I’m going to get bored wearing the same few things over and over! Presentation is important, and we love to communicate our personalities through our wardrobe. You can still do this while keeping your wardrobe minimalist and sustainable! Here are two simple, yet effective tips and tricks: Don’t Go Completely Neutral In our first post in this series, we discussed why it’s important that everything pairs with each other. The knee-jerk reaction may be to immediately invest in all black, white, and neutral pieces. This can be great if that’s what you genuinely love, but if your favorite color is red...
Be honest. Ethical shopping can be exhausting and expensive. It’s a worthwhile mission that can sometimes come at the cost of our sanity and our wallets. When we set out to create an eco-conscious brand 5 years ago, these were the two biggest barriers customers told us that deterred them from shopping consciously. When a customer sets out to purchase a product, sometimes it’s difficult to find a retailer who can demonstrate how that product was made, where the materials were sourced from, and how the workers who created that product were treated. As sustainability is becoming a bigger conversation, it’s easier now than ever before to start finding answers to these questions in every industry. Still, however, eco-friendly products...
How to Start Building Your Sustainable Capsule Wardrobe We get it- that feeling when your open your closet door, stare into the sea of clothes and think to yourself, “I have nothing to wear.” First Things First Why Go Minimal With Your Wardrobe? Research shows that less options we have, the easier decisions are to make. Not only that, but the decisions we make are better! So if you find yourself in a constant cycle of shopping trips, donation piles of trendy purchases that didn’t end up working for you, and seasonal purges... it might be time to try out a sustainable, minimalist capsule wardrobe. What Makes it “Sustainable”? Making your minimalist fashion choices sustainable means investing in someone...
Women in Colombia face employment challenges due to the gender stereotypes ingrained in their culture. Our artisan partners in this country is a group of talented women in a small town where women are rarely able to find steady work. Throughout the years, we’ve been thrilled to see the country as a whole taking steps to strengthen gender equality, reduce female unemployment, and implement a plan to end gender-based violence. In previous blog posts, we’ve outlined the economic impacts that a country can expect when they empower women workers. For example, India’s GDP would rise by $5.5 billion if only an additional 1% of girls continued to secondary school. Think of the impact that would have on impoverished communities, infrastructure,...
