My Favorite Small Companies — Estée Lalonde

Since its nearing the vacation season, I believe it’s extra vital than ever to assist small and impartial enterprise’s. Supporting neighborhood, and smaller scale corporations can actually assist a neighborhood thrive! Plus you’re serving to the setting by way of decreasing your carbon footprint.

The beauty of residing in London, there are such a lot of sustainable retailers to select from! I’ve additionally discovered Instagram to be an unimaginable platform for locating area of interest enterprise’s to buy every little thing from vegetation to artwork.

Through the years I’ve actually grow to be keen on a handful of manufacturers that I believe are price mentioning. A few of my favorite small enterprise’s embody: Alexandria Coe Art, The Sustainable Department Store, and Earl of East.

All that being stated, I might love to listen to from you! What are a few of your favorite impartial and sustainable retailers?

Alexandria Coe Artwork

Alexandria Coe is a London based mostly artist, whose illustrations of the feminine physique are uncooked and exquisite. Whereas her drawings are summary, they present emotion and search to inform a narrative, which I really like. I’m very excited for the discharge of her second ebook, ‘Lovers’, which is focus’s on the theme of relationships, and can embody photographs and textual content that depict what that phrase means to her. Over on MIRROR WATER, Julie Tanner interviewed Alexandria about her upbringing, her artwork, and why she prefers the phrase ‘bare’ over ‘nude’. You possibly can learn that interview here.

You possibly can store Alexandria’s artwork here