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How To Tell If A Brand Is Just Greenwashing

What is Greenwashing? The term “greenwashing” was coined in the 1980s by environmentalist Jay Westerveld to describe companies which grossly overstate the environmental or ethical benefits of their products and services. With “sustainability” becoming a popular buzzword and many brands wanting to join in on the sustainability movement, it is now important, more so than […]

How To Wear The Multi-Way Wrap Top

The Multi-Way Wrap Top is all versatility and elegance. Wear the wrap to the front or wear the wrap to the back for something a little more high neck. If you’re doing the latter, tie it to a bow to make it backless, or loop it back to the front for a little more coverage. […]

10 Packing Tips for An Over-packer

5 years ago, we imagined a business built on the type of travel that we love – story driven, community based, built on direct relationships and a commitment to respecting provenance. Passion aside, there’s a lot about the practicality of travel that adds more stress than necessary: namely the packing process. What do you bring? […]

How to Be A Respectful Traveller

As travel becomes increasingly affordable, convenient, and accessible, more and more people are choosing to travel for a multitude of reasons–whether it be simply to relax and have some time away, or to tick off a bucket list item. Traveling with the right intentions also makes us more cultured and educated about things that aren’t […]

How To Advocate For A Fairer Fashion Industry

Our world likes to push a narrative that life plays out in black and white. This is simply not true. While the fashion industry as a whole remains incredibly problematic, there’s a reason we all continue to buy into the concept. At its best, fashion is a creative force for self-expression and progress. At its […]

How To Make Sustainable Fashion Accessible

There has been a lot of talk recently about how to make sustainable fashion accessible. While this community’s goal is ultimately to create a better industry for the planet and its people, there are many who are being left out of the conversation. Before we discuss how to make sustainable fashion accessible to all, we have to […]

How To Love What You Already Have

There are 52 micro-trends a year, and many of us are guilty to have indulged in (some of) them. We buy things we don’t end up using and end up with a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear. In Anuschka Rees’ book, The Curated Closet, she says how a curated closet is “a […]

4 Ways To Wear Prints If You Hate Wearing Prints

Printed textile started out as a form of storytelling, and we use printing techniques such as blockprinting on our garments to continue that tradition. We believe in designing from the past and so we choose prints that already exist. We reinterpret them in terms of playing with whitespace, outlines, motif size, and repeat. It is […]

How To Tell If A Brand Is Sustainable

With the rise of sustainable fashion, there’s also a parallel in the increase of brands aligning themselves under the tag of sustainability. Unfortunately, marketing and advertising techniques are often employed by organisations to convince the public of their environmental bonafide. Greenwashing, better explained as a form of deceptive promotion that paints efforts and products to […]

How To: Travel Sustainably

We started because we imagined a business that mirrored the values of the type of travel that we love – story driven, community based, built on direct relationships and a commitment to respecting provenance. Now, tourism has grown to such an extent where there are over a billion tourists annually. However, it puts a lot of […]

3 Ways To Wear A Dress If You Hate Dresses

We love dresses for their versatile and easy-to-wear nature, but we know that the one-piece style may not be for everyone. While our pants are a timeless style we love reaching for, we wanted to try to make wearing dresses a less daunting task. Here are 3 tips on wearing dresses if you hate wearing […]

How To: Zero Waste Travel

At home in Switzerland, waste is not really seen as a big problem. Everybody separates their waste for recycling, the garbage gets collected every Tuesday – and all streets and roads are swept in the early morning hours. Which is why a culture shock can happen when traveling. Here in Latin America we see everyday […]

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