Sustainable Fashion Panel + Clothing Swap 👗🌎
The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions. That's more than all international flights + shipping combined 🤯
As we approach September fashion month, let's learn about how some of NYC's sustainable fashion icons integrate sustainability & style.
This will be an energizing evening diving into the world of sustainable fashion! We'll have a dynamic panel of NYC sustainable fashionistas, a clothing swap, vendors, zero waste snacks & more!
✨ Highlights Include:
Expert Insights: Hear from sustainable designers, activists, and leaders on circular fashion, ethical sourcing, and mindful consumption
Interactive Swap: Trade up to 10 gently used items (clothing/accessories) and trade for new-to-you favorites
Upcycling Station: Bring a few items to repair and repurpose!
Refreshments & Connection: Enjoy light bites and refreshments while making new friends
🗓 Evening Flow:
🌎 5:30–6:30: Arrive, drop off swap items, grab a drink
♻️ 6:30–7:15: Panel: What Exactly Is Sustainability in Fashion?
💭 7:15–8:00: Browse, swap & chat!
🎉 Meet Our Sustainable Fashion Panelists 🎉
Rosie Mae
Rosie is a textile artist, sustainable swimwear designer, vintage archivist, and climate activist with a range of industry experience. As an artist, she works primarily with dead-stock, vintage, and regenerated nylon fabrics. Striving to be as zero waste as possible, she enjoys experimenting with various design techniques and materials such as knitting, weaving, patchwork, & more. Since relocating to NYC in 2016, Rosie has been published internationally. She also is closely involved with local orgs such as Climate Cafe and Remake.
Maddie Gubernick
Maddie is the Founder of The Butterfly Club, a slow fashion agency dedicated to discovering the next generation of independent designers. On a mission to dismantle the fast fashion industry, The Butterfly Club supports slow fashion designers who are designing differently and gives them the tools they need to “spread their wings”.
Kelly Peaks
With a background in environmental justice, Kelly has a strong interest in the intersection between the fashion industry, policy, and human rights. Currently, she works as the Fellowship Coordinator for the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at NYU connecting environmental law professionals with attorney general offices to work on clean energy, climate, and environmental matters.
Moderated by Yelle Belle
Yelle Belle is a vintage lover, outspoken minimal waster, and a zealous supporter of ecological reform, sensitive to slight changes, signals, or influences in culture. As the host of the Home Swap Stories video series, Yelle tours sustainable New Yorkers' homes.
Yelle also markets luxury residential buildings for RXR, wrote the verbal identity rebrand for OnePointFive, and volunteers as a content creator for Women and Climate.
🎉 A BIG thank you + shout out to our sponsors of this event! 🎉
The Bee Oasis
A Honeybee Watering & Medication Station 🐝💧
The Bee Oasis is a functional garden art designed to support pollinators while adding beauty to your outdoor space.
By providing fresh, accessible water, the Bee Oasis helps sustain honeybee populations and attract more pollinators to your garden.
Perfect for gardeners, bird watchers, and outdoor enthusiasts, it’s a meaningful and practical gift that also supports small businesses.
The Bee Oasis' website
The Bee Oasis' Instagram
Horizon Active
Horizon Active is a closed-cycle activewear company solving the fashion waste crisis.
From crafting new activewear from recycled materials to reselling pre-loved pieces and running a thrift store that diverts other brands from landfills, they’re redefining responsible fashion. No waste. No compromise. Just a bold commitment to a better planet.
Horizon Active's Website
Horizon Active's Instagram
Use code SimplySustainable for 10% off
Miakoda New York
Miakoda is an ethically + sustainably made comfy clothing brand. The ethos behind Miakoda is that you should look good, feel good, do good. The clothing is made to help you feel your best (while looking good) without hurting the planet or its inhabitants (humans and animals alike!).
Miakoda clothing is made from sustainable plant based fibers, in small batches in New York City. We save our production scraps to create our zero waste accessory line to keep fabric out of landfills.
We also have a pre-loved marketplace to buy and sell second hand Miakoda-- keeping loved Miakoda out of landfill. Thank you for learning about us!
Miakoda's website
Miakoda's Instagram
Use code SimplySustainable for 20% off
River Organics
Natural, Transparent, Eco-friendly. River Organics promotes a natural beauty routine with transparent ingredient lists and eco-friendly packaging, emphasizing a commitment to sustainability.
River Organic's website
River Organic's Instagram
Use code SimplySustainable for 15% off
bonnee
the clothing swap app. Swap vintage finds and accessories effortlessly. Start trading today for a sustainable wardrobe!
bonnee's website
bonnee's Instagram
Retold Recycling
Retold Recycling is a mail-in textile recycling service that keeps textiles out of landfills by sorting, reselling, and recycling your old clothes and household fabrics. We make textile recycling convenient and eco‑friendly, diverting over 270 tons of textiles so far from landfills. Join their #NoLandfill community today at retoldrecycling.com
Retold Recycling's Instagram
Use code SIMPLY10 for 10% off your order
Plaine Products
Plaine Products makes bath and body products—like shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and hand wash—that come in reusable metal bottles you can send back to be washed and filled again, so people don’t use one-time plastic bottles. Their products are gentle, plant‑based, vegan, cruelty‑free, made in the USA, and safe for kids.
Plaine Products' website
Plaine Products' Instagram
Use code SIMPLYSUSTAINABLE for 10% off
About Simply Sustainable
Simply Sustainable is an education platform and community on sustainable living. Our mission is to make sustainable living accessible while cultivating community around climate action. We host monthly community calls, seasonal cohorts, in-person events, and more!
Cheers to a sustainable 2025 and beyond 🥂