To paraphrase Anne Shirley, sustainable fashion has become “a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.” Over the past five or so years, a wave of fashion brands built on sustainability, ethics, or slow production has shut down.
March 2026
Ethical & Sustainable Alternatives to Anthro
Is Anthropologie ethical? When I was in college, I had a Ph.D. student teacher who looked like she’d walked straight out of an Anthropologie catalog. I was intrigued by her maturity and her sophisticated yet quirky sense of style. And …
Ethical & Sustainable Alternatives to Madewell
Ethical Brands That Are Better Than Madewell While Madewell has made vast improvements to their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) document and their supply chain, the majority of their products do not strictly adhere to ethical or sustainable standards. I’ve compiled …
Books I Read | First Quarter ’26
One of my goals this year – well, every year – is to read more books. I got out of the habit of reading just for fun in divinity school. Even though the reading assigned for my coursework was fun, …
Spring Fashion List 2026
I can’t believe it’s time for another installment of my long running Fall and Spring Fashion List series. At the start of the year, I decided to more earnestly pursue a “buy less” mentality. And so far, it has really …





