Every year the world produces 460 million tonnes of plastic, and more than half of it is designed for single use, made to be used once and thrown away. Every...

The primary ingredient in this product, making up to 50 percent of the product, is something called methyl dihydrojasmonate. It's a fully synthetic fragrance compound made in a lab (often...

Most growth strategies were never designed for brands like yours. If you’re building a sustainable fashion brand — slow, ethical, handmade, circular — you don’t need more. You need a...

When you’re doing most of it yourself, the workload can feel relentless, and even when you’re doing everything “right”, it’s easy to find yourself running on empty.

After twenty years of building, breaking, rebuilding and watching founders navigate the same challenges, this is the problem I care most about solving now: helping founders finally see their businesses...

The goal of planning isn’t to lock yourself into a rigid schedule or squeeze more work into your days. It’s to remove the mental clutter so you can focus on...

When you're starting out, walking into a retail lease is a big responsibility and a big expense, so testing the waters with a pop-up shop for a short time is...

In December, I posted just 11 times on Instagram. Six reels. Five carousels. That’s it. I also took three weeks off, barely checked my phone, and didn’t spiral about falling behind....

I want to burn it all to the ground. That line came up again and again in conversations I had with creatives at the end of last year. And I...

My list of brands to write about just kept growing, and it became too much. I’m ashamed to admit it, but I started to think, what’s the point? The copycats are...

We’re conditioned to think that discounts drive revenue. We’re conditioned to think that urgency and FOMO fuel growth. We’re conditioned to think that you have to jump on the Black...

If your slow fashion brand isn’t growing the way you hoped, if you’re tired of guessing and hoping, if you want 2026 to be different, this workshop is your next...

I was working 10 to 14 hour days, sometimes seven days a week. I had staff (their wages were always covered). I had stock. I had press. I had passion....

When The Fashion Advocate was one of the largest online stores for sustainable fashion, I stocked over 100 brands, I ran my own brand, I had a team of staff,...

Every November, we’re told to buy, buy, buy so we don’t miss out on the biggest sales and best deals of the year. But big brands don’t care about giving...

When I started my first fashion label, I thought success meant scale. I thought I needed racks of stock, glossy campaigns, wholesale accounts lined up, and a calendar of launches...

I don’t believe in failure because everything is a lesson and an opportunity to grow, but in an industry like fashion, there’s a right way of doing wholesale and a...

If you’ve been sitting on the fence, wondering if wholesale is really for your brand, this is your sign. You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just...