“fashion is my chosen vehicle to help illuminate the inherent ties between the environmental movement with social justice issues. fashion is inherently political, from the politics of labor to the way to the ways that environmental injustice disproportionately affects people of color. and yet at the same time, fashion is an incredibly powerful medium that allows us to explore our aesthetics, identities, cultures and more. fashion gives the means to explore and unpack questions of identity and culture on a personal level, while also understanding our positionality in larger systems of power and injustice.”

“my journey in sustainable fashion began almost seven years ago, after the 2013 Rana Plaza Factory Collapse in Bangladesh. Rana Plaza framed one of the biggest industrial disasters of human history — an eight-story factory collapse that killed more than 1,134 workers and injured over 2,500. it’s almost fair to call it not just an industrial disaster, but homicide: the collapse of Rana Plaza was not an unpredictable disaster. structural cracks were identified the day before the building’s collapse, and workers had complained about sounds coming from the building. however, due to pressure from upper management, workers were called into work the next day to finish orders. 

“i often look at the fashion industry through a lens of decolonization. here’s one fact that i find quite illuminating: as noted in The Cut, taking a look at fast fashion from a macro perspective reveals that supply chains for most major clothing and apparel manufacturers have the same world trade routes as 150 years ago — in other words: during the height of European colonial exploitation.”