Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Some might argue that Jenny Pfanenstiel was born in the wrong era. Jenny is an internationally recognized milliner, or hat designer for those who don’t know what millinery is. You’d be excused for not knowing because in our hatless society the craft of hat making has ebbed away. Nevertheless, there is a new generation of milliners—such
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Soon after graduating from design school in Cape Town, Wendren Setzer developed her own designer bag range, inspired by the stories that certain materials inherently have. The resulting range, named WREN, includes a laptop bag made from...
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Mumbai-based Padmaja Krishnan is an internationally recognized textile and fashion artist with a quirky and truly original sense of design. Her fashion and textile “laboratory” –Transit Design – creates authentic, non-confirmative clothing. She was an India finalist...
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Alexa Mottram makes slippers, really cool slippers. Made entirely from reclaimed materials (mostly waste from the upholstery industry) every pair of ‘Motties’ slippers is unique. A resident of Lincolnshire in the UK, Alexa graduated with a degree...
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Australian husband and wife team Marty and Natalie Dillon are the founders of 3Fish, a clothing and merchandise company with a social conscience. To produce their clothing products, 3Fish only rely on organic cotton farms and responsible...
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Murielle Scherre is founder of lingerie brand La fille d’O, not an ordinary brand, not an ordinary business and certainly not an ordinary entrepreneur. She’s created one of the coolest lingerie brands around, one that actually celebrates...