When designer, Anne Salvatore Epstein, discovered her NY lifestyle had become “overly excessive,” she started making conscious everyday decisions to lessen her impact. This new mindset, coupled with her career at Marc Jacobs and IISLI, opened her eyes to how the manufacturing process affected the environment. In 2005, Anne launched Beau Soleil to provide environmentally minded consumers healthy choices by offering garments made using fair trade, fair labor, and organic raw materials without sacrificing fashion.

By way of Brooklyn, NY, Caroline McClean of Carrie Girl resides and creates her totally adorable, handmade wares in Iowa City. Whether it be drawing, sewing, cooking, or screen-printing, making things makes Caroline very, very happy. She hopes that shows through in her clutches and jewelry wallets that she individually hand makes with vintage fabric finds and organic, cotton canvas when she can.

Feral Childe is the fast friends team of Alice Wu and Moriah Carlson who started making clothes for their new NY lifestyle. Taking their outfits to the streets, passersby stopped them on subways and in stairwells, asking where they could buy such clothes. Feral Childe’s playful silhouettes and curiously elegant tailoring gained a devoted following, at home and abroad, among young and old, traditionalists and renegades. FERAL CHILDE is Brooklyn-based and locally produced.

LINEA CARTA, is Italian for ‘paper line’ or ‘paper collection.’ It also is the name of designer Diva Pyari’s comprehensive eco-friendly and eco-cute line of luxury stationary and gifts for you and your home.

It was a rather simple notion, profound nonetheless, that the Bauhaus school sought to promote: the combination of art(s) and craft(s). Mociun adheres to this same, simple notion: expressed most visually in the Bauhaus-inspired prints she employs throughout her line. Similarly expressed is the influence of Karl Blossfeldt, whose plant photography ultimately served the interests of art and craft.

Mociun continues to explore and integrate the ever-emerging technologies and critical conceptions of sustainability; environmentally healthy production; and, as a type of de facto jouissance, the role of, and the products available to, the individual consumer in society at large.

Perhaps like David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision”, Mociun designs inspired by an ahistorical use of various cultural textile and pattern traditions, and constructs visually and economically attractive products, likewise inspiring consumers of a similar persuasion.

Nixxi designer, Jada Lee, is known for her clean silhouettes in rich organic textiles and textures. Each season the collection is always beautiful, modern, and timeless.

Popomomo stands for post-postmodern movement and creates intellectually sexy pieces that never play catch up. The Popomomo woman is the type to wear heels while riding a bike, drink wine all night, and wax poetic on politics, philosophy, and popculture.

Popomomo is a sustainable line which means their entire line uses organic &/or sustainable fabrics, is designed, sampled and produced locally in LA, uses low impact dyes, and only produces pieces that are unique & new (their not into creating trend-driven waste). They also are conscious of their paper usage, ship using recycled materials, power their car using recycled waste veggie oil, and are always learning more about ways to decrease our environmental impact.

Popomomo designer, Lizz Wasserman, works and lives in the east side of Los Angeles with her fiancé and the dog they found lost at the library, Booker.