Is there a person — a mentor, a peer, or someone unexpected — who fundamentally changed the way you work?
We’re people who run on relationships. We’re always connecting with each other, and in our work that exchange is everything. Everyone we bring into our lives and our practice changes something and shifts the way we see things. That’s really the whole point of working as a collective: building a space where different paths cross, somewhere open and alive, where you can take risks, push back against each other, and figure things out together.
Where do you see your brand in five years: bigger, smaller, or more radical?
We just hope to still be doing this, and doing it on our own terms. What we’re building isn’t really a brand, it’s more like a community. A place where people actually want to show up with a real sense of belonging. Getting bigger isn’t the goal. The goal is getting closer, to the people who are part of this, and to something that actually means something.
In your opinion, what urgently needs to change in the fashion and design industry?
When profit is the only thing driving decisions, you end up with products that feel like nothing. No thought behind them, no soul. And along the way, both humans and nonhumans get stepped on for competition and growth. But the problem isn’t only fashion or design. It’s the whole framework we’ve built around what success is supposed to look like, what we consume and why, how we treat each other. Maybe the most urgent shift we have to make is learning to value care, respect and collective responsibility again.
