My Favorite Small Companies — Estée Lalonde

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

The beauty of 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 vegetation to artwork.

Over time I’ve actually change into 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 mentioned, 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 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 embrace pictures 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