The clothes we wear today simply don’t mean what they used to in terms of multi-functionality or quality of design. Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Fast-Fashion, writes that we can attribute our love of “more for less” to the industry’s fast-fashion giants. Take, for example, that as of 2004, H&M […]

The World Bank estimates that 17 to 20 percent of industrial water pollution comes from textile dyeing and treatment. They’ve also identified 72 toxic chemicals in our water that solely originated from textile dyeing, 30 of which cannot be removed. This represents an appalling environmental challenge for designers and manufacturers. Oh, and that’s just the dyeing, […]

Michael Preysman founded Everlane in November 2011 with the goal of overhauling the typical retail experience. Having quit his job at a venture-capital firm in San Francisco, Preysman wanted to create an “exciting, collaborative and experimental effort” that cut through the clutter to provide luxury apparel without the exorbitant markup. The online-only collection, like its […]