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.

Erica Weiner started designing and making jewelry out of her LES apartment. In 2007, with her co-founder Lindsay Salmon, they moved the studio into a sun-filled workspace on Chrystie Street. Together they travel around the country, searching out interesting materials to transform into new jewelry. All of their jewelry is handmade in NYC

They also have a hardcore environmental policy which we love! Their packing materials are reused and mailers are 90% post-consumer paper and 100% recyclable. About half of their jewelry materials are vintage, dead stock and re-purposed. They offset 300% of their carbon output through www.carbonfund.org. And, 5% of all after-tax profits from Erica Weiner Jewelry are donated to charities. Awesome!

Hansel from Basel is a quaint hosiery company created in Los Angeles by Hannah Byun. Hannah has worked in the hosiery business for three years, managing and coordinating production. The experience was educational and intense.

Having attained studio art and art history degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, Hannah decided to combine her artistic interests with sock savvy. The opportunity to create a line that is smaller, independent, whimsical and design oriented felt inevitable.

Hansel from Basel is a line dedicated to unique design, excellent quality, and light hearted jest. We hope that you feel as excited about wearing our socks as we are about designing them.

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.

Mika Machida is not only a graphic designer but a fashion superstar living and working in New York. The care for the environment, the planet, and the animals are the main inspirations for her line. That is why she only uses the finest organic and sustainably made materials, including organic cotton, organic linen, hemp, and organic wool.

Designer Gretchen Jones’ rural, western roots bring inspiration from the organic and natural, while her musings linger from the romantic 1970s aesthetic. Based on minimal and conceptual art principles, MothLove is ethereal and sexy in its very simplicity.Bohemian in lifestyle and design, Jones aims to create collections that beg to be worn and fallen in love with…

While noted for its luxurious but minimalist aesthetics, MothLove consciously creates modern and sustainable designs. In addition, nearly all Jones’ fabrics are environmentally conscious.

Effortlessness is the trademark, purity is the design and conscious is the production- MothLove re-defines.

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.

Karen Stewart and Howard Brown, partners in life and work, launched their ethical fashion brand in 2002 from Los Angeles, California. Inspired by their love and respect for nature and a passion for design, Karen and Howard were filled with a sense of purpose and determined to pioneer the sustainable fashion movement.

Design is a passion and a way of life for Karen and Howard. Their professional journey stems from a union of creativity and purpose. They have been skilled through years of designing for some of the most distinguished best-of-class lifestyle brands. Karen, a trained painter and New York native, and Howard, a graphic artist and Montana native, oversee every aspect of the product and brand themselves.

Each Stewart+Brown collection, at an elemental level, is a fusion of experiences and insights filtered through the duo’s creative core and rendered into the brands own unique and personal aesthetic. While finding inspiration in all aspects of life, the brand’s craft is mostly influenced by its wonderful team of committed and caring individuals and the belief that we all have a responsibility to protect our future generations including Karen and Howard’s two small children Hazel and Huxley.