My Favorite Small Companies — Estée Lalonde

Since its nearing the vacation season, I feel it’s extra necessary than ever to help small and unbiased enterprise’s. Supporting neighborhood, and smaller scale corporations can really assist a group thrive! Plus you’re serving to the atmosphere by means of decreasing your carbon footprint.

The wonderful thing about dwelling 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 part from crops to artwork.

Through the years I’ve actually grow to be a fan of a handful of manufacturers that I feel 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’d love to listen to from you! What are a few of your favorite unbiased and sustainable retailers?

Alexandria Coe Artwork

Alexandria Coe is a London primarily based 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 e-book, ‘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’ll be able to learn that interview here.

You’ll be able to store Alexandria’s artwork here