My Favorite Small Companies — Estée Lalonde

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

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

Over time I’ve definitely turn out to be keen on a handful of manufacturers that I believe are value mentioning. A few of my favorite small enterprise’s embrace: 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 delightful. Whereas her drawings are summary, they present emotion and search to inform a narrative, which I like. I’m very excited for the discharge of her second guide, ‘Lovers’, which is focus’s on the theme of relationships, and can embrace 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