My Favourite Small Businesses — Estée Lalonde

Since its nearing the vacation season, I believe it’s extra necessary than ever to help 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 lowering your carbon footprint.

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

Through the years I’ve definitely develop into a fan of a handful of manufacturers that I believe are value mentioning. A few of my favorite small enterprise’s embody: 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 impartial 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 like. I’m very excited for the discharge of her second ebook, ‘Lovers’, which is focus’s on the theme of relationships, and can embody 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