My Favorite Small Companies — Estée Lalonde

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

The wonderful thing about dwelling in London, there are such a lot of sustainable outlets to select from! I’ve additionally discovered Instagram to be an unbelievable platform for locating area of interest enterprise’s to buy all the pieces from vegetation to artwork.

Through the years I’ve definitely change into keen on 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 impartial and sustainable outlets?

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 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 photos 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