Routines evade me. I love the inventiveness of the moment. I love my cardboard box my cool Canon eosM50 camera came in! It is the perfect box height for most of my laptop work when I am sitting on a couch. The high table in my workspace is also not quite high enough...
Combatting “Greenwashing” with Transparency Fashion and Climate change couldn’t be a more timely subject. Click on the letters below to see the presentation I gave for Sustainable Living. Many of the links in this piece are available on the slideshow. -Slide show for...
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State of Market Informa Markets Fashion Coronavirus update with Nick Blunden, president, BofF Wednesday, October 14, 2020 The State of Fashion with Nick Blunden summary: I tuned in to the Business of Fashion’s Nick Blunden talk about what a huge impact Covid is...
The Fast Fashion Money Crunchers For years I worked in the fashion industry as a professional patternmaker and tailor in NYC and Los Angeles. I have worked for some iconic brands like Betsy Johnson, Ellen Tracy, and here in the O.C. at St. John Knits were making the...
Hand Sewing is Slow Fashion Hand sewing is easy! Surprisingly how little of it anyone does anymore. It is a basic skill we could use all the time… for hemming? You would not believe how we all make excuses for not hemming something. It seems so hard. Well, I am here...
Intersectional Connection is what sustainable fashion is really all about. We consume with our money and we do not always check for the transparency of manufacturing and energy use in the corporations we are patronizing. For every...
A world of abundance is what I see. In my own home, as I sit here thinking about not having the corporate job or simply not making more money and still buying things, I am in awe of how little I spend on buying things and how much I am handed by people who do not want...