There is a picture of me taken during freshman year of high school where I am wearing an icy blue top and khaki pants. To answer your question: yes, I...

I am writing this as a recovering summer clothing hater. I can trace my dislike back to seventh grade when an eighth grade cheerleader told me seeing me in shorts...

"Clothing has never just been about clothing.  Clothing carries identity." When Marie Antoinette made the long and arduous trek by carriage from her royal home in Austria towards France to...

"You don't need fifty pairs of jeans.  You need four good ones." I still remember the shame I felt in fifth grade when my flare jeans weren’t long enough to...

"My fear is one hundred years from now, history will look on us the same way we look on those who supported school segregation - with a great deal of...

Since 2021, SHEIN has been releasing annual “Sustainability and Social Impact” reports.  Typically, they are released in the summer for the prior year.  Before 2021, the company did not release...

This is the tragic story about building a closet full of clothing I love and then waking up one day unable to fit into any of them.  And what comes...

Linen and I have only recently become good friends. In my early years as a textile novice, I didn’t understand its appeal. It seemed to wrinkle just by looking at...

As globalization has slashed the cost of clothing production over the past forty years, the fashion industry has quietly shifted.  Prior to the 1990’s, developing and manufacturing different clothing styles...

Let’s get something out in the open before we move forward: clothing isn’t just my job as a designer; it’s a family pastime. When my mom and I get together,...

As the market share of European clothing imports from developing countries declines, more overseas brands are focusing on “near shoring” their clothing production, which is the process of bringing production...

What does "ethical" even mean at this point? When I quit my corporate job to build a clothing brand, I knew exactly what I didn’t want to do: participate in...