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 firms can actually assist a group thrive! Plus you’re serving to the setting by decreasing your carbon footprint.

The beauty of residing in London, there are such a lot of sustainable outlets to select from! I’ve additionally discovered Instagram to be an unimaginable platform for locating area of interest enterprise’s to buy all the things from vegetation to artwork.

Through the years I’ve definitely change into keen on a handful of manufacturers that I feel are price 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 unbiased and sustainable outlets?

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 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 may learn that interview here.

You may store Alexandria’s artwork here