After graduating with a BFA in Fashion Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology, Nia Thomas began to explore realms in the New York City fashion/fine art scene. Constantly playing with warm earth tones, exciting textures, and the concept of proudly wearing your heritage on your sleeve, she cultivated a safe space for her passion to cultivate. Furthermore, capitalizing on the opportunity of representing what a vegan and eco-conscious woman of color could create and positively share with the world.

Our personal dedication to sustainability is as simple as reduce, reuse, recycle. The fashion industry is one of the most wasteful industries in the world. We try to incorporate eco-conscious solutions in my work by reducing the amount of non-renewable energy used to make clothes and accessories by using my fabric scraps to make scrunchies, tiny bags that I put my jewelry in when I ship out orders. Reusing objects and/or materials that may otherwise end up in landfills. Taking buttons, zippers, jewel, beads, or any trim out of vintage or dead stock pieces that are damaged and beautifully up-cycle them on to our brand new pieces makes us proud for problem-solving/bringing new art into the world from something used. We respond to that and we know our customers do as well.

Where does our fabric/materials come from?

Our collections bring into fruition wearable art that is made with recycled or reclaimed materials that have been extracted and reconditioned for a new use. As close to 70% of our clothes are made of deadstock fabrics, since textiles make up almost 6% of the trash entering U.S. landfills every year. We buy verified old, leftover, and over-ordered fabric from other designers and fabric warehouses. This allows us to reuse and divert these materials from landfills and into your closet. Our jewelry materials such as agate and freshwater pearls are sourced from Morocco and NYC. With the use of biodegradable garment labels, we try to minimize the flow of waste on a broader scale.

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