Posted by James on Monday, May 7th, 2012
We're excited to announce the Baltimore launch of New York City fashion stylist company, PureThread. Following her ever popular exclusive Spring showcase in NYC, our friend and PureThread stylist Jill Heller invites you to a Private Boutique Baltimore Showing of hand picked selections from the fashion marketplace for Spring 2012. Please join PureThread for the first Baltimore event, co-hosted by ...
Posted by James on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
[caption id="attachment_793" align="alignright" width="200" caption="INDIGENOUS at Vancouver Eco Fashion Week"][/caption] Each year the billion-dollar fashion industry results in over 90 million items of clothing in landfill sites globally. This, along with a laundry list of other assorted harrowing industry statistics, moved Myriam Laroche (pictured below, with Jeff Garner of Prohpetik and a model in one of his designs) to launch Eco Fashion ...
Posted by Emily on Friday, April 27th, 2012
INDIGENOUS is committed to helping people and planet. That's why our clothing is made with the softest of organic cotton and natural, free range alpaca. It's also why we support and preserve artisan cooperatives with fair trade wages and ethical business practices. And why, during August and September of 2011, we surveyed our Peru-based workforce—anonymously via mobile phone—about the dimensions ...
Posted by Emily on Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Eco Fashion Week is a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating growth and development of sustainable practices in the fashion industry. The mainstream fashion industry generates 300 billion dollars every year, but unfortunately, it is one of the industries most damaging to our planet. Eco Fashion Week focuses on fashion that goes against the grain, using environmentally friendly practices while creating artistic, ...
Posted by Emily on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Fashion. Style. Inspiration. See the inside track on what premium value, worldly, smart and versatile INDIGENOUS fashion looks like. Discover how beautiful fiber, exquisite detail and eco-chic styling are the perfect fit for today’s woman who wants it all. By fairly employing expert knitters who draw from long traditions of knitting knowledge, INDIGENOUS combines only the most natural, organic and ...
Posted by Emily on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
With a passion for stitch design, Berta Espinosa Escobar creates intricate and lovely fair trade knits for INDIGENOUS. After receiving a college degree in interior design, Berta found her path as a stitch designer when her sister introduced her to hand looming. Enraptured by this new art, Berta grabbed hold of every knitting and stitch design book she could find and ...
Posted by Emily on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
INDIGENOUS works hard to ensure that dyes that create our beautiful color palette and complement our natural fibers do not harm the planet. Our low-impact dyeing programs intend to eliminate harmful chemicals and waste, providing innumerable environmental and health benefits. Our yarns and dyeing processes are created within the Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS) and the parameters of the Oeko-Text Standard ...
Posted by Emily on Friday, March 16th, 2012
For some of us, the huge and degrading scope of poverty in the world can be easy to ignore. It's not in our homes, it's not in our neighborhoods, it's safely shuffled away, seemingly far away, making only brief and infrequent appearances on the nightly news. Yet the statistics are staggering. Almost half the world—over 3 billion people—live on less than ...
Posted by Emily on Monday, March 12th, 2012
We send so many beautiful fair trade + organic garments out there into the world—to be worn and loved—yet we so rarely get to see them on their owners. We are hoping to rectify this while giving you a chance to win a whopping $150 to be used at indigenous.com. All you have to do is find, or snap, a photo ...
Posted by Emily on Friday, March 2nd, 2012
What determines the worth of a garment? Is it the price tag? Is it how quickly it managed to knock off the last runway show and make its way to the department store? Is it exclusivity or how many stars were spotted donning it? We have another opinion and it is this: fashion must earn its worth by being good to ...
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