new options opening up for fair-trade, organic clothing.
i am so excited about some of the leads i have stumbled across the last few days.
as i mentioned last week, grace & cello has always been as concerned with social responsibility as it has been with being environmentally friendly, but it isn’t always easy to find third-party verified fabrics and contractors … not in north america anyway.
well it seems things are starting to change. the other day we were in 10,000 villages on st.denis, and we came across a couple of really neat companies. the first one is lilidom, which makes a few t-shirts and onesies for babies. they are simple, but really cute, and everything has a good message (to impress all the other 12 month old babies who can read your kids shirt!). the best part is the cotton used to make the pieces is certified fair-trade, and organic! this is definitely a pretty new development, because we’ve been looking and never managed to find such a thing.
right next to the baby clothes was some information about fibrethik, which is the distributor that sources and sells the cotton. anyway, very cool and exciting to say the least.
another lead i had the other day was from a friend who is currently in senegal with the united nations, doing some work for his doctorate. he is right now at this rural outpost where the local community is looking to fair-trade and organic production as a means to foster sustainable development in the area and create meaningful livelihoods for locals.
all this to say that with more and more opportunities out there to make commerce more humane and neighbourly, grace & cello will have an easier time bringing you beautiful clothes 100% free of shame.
c.
