What if you could change the world...

What if you could change the world...
...just by how you buy your clothes? Fashion Revolution Week is about this exact idea. On April 24, 2013, there was a catastrophic building collapse in Bangladesh at Rana Plaza, a clothing manufacturing facility. 1134 people died and thousands more were injured. And a fashion revolution began. When you purchase...

Featured Maker: Samantha Morshed of Pebble (Part 2)

Featured Maker: Samantha Morshed of Pebble (Part 2)
Last time, we spoke with Samantha Morshed of Pebble about how she began her work in fair trade and the women she works with in Bangladesh. Now we turn our attention to Pebble's design process, how fair trade affects all of us, and Ms. Morshed's thoughts on the future:  Q:...

Introducing Tonlé

We don't blog every time we get a new maker in the store, but Tonlé is a special case. Rachel Faller is a Burlington native, and she founded the company after going to Cambodia on a Fulbright Fellowship to study fashion practices during college. Not surprisingly, Rachel found sweatshop labor, women...