About Us
Sustainable Fashion Alliance is an online platform and community for sustainable entrepreneurs and creatives.
Founded to create impactful momentum in the industry, we empower sustainable fashion professionals with resources, shared opportunities, strategy sessions and creative avenues to market. We believe in igniting change through collective action.
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Our Partners
Our Team
Andrea Olmsted,
Founder
Andrea Olmsted is a journalist and sustainable fashion consultant. She is the granddaughter of immigrants who arrived in San Francisco in the 1960s and took up work in a local apparel factory. A reverence towards garment workers and textile artists runs deep within her blood. In 2008 she started Ecologique Fashion, a sustainable consulting agency, to provide ethical brands with PR services. She is the former West Coast Regional Coordinator for Fashion Revolution.
Joyce Hu,
Founder
Joyce Hu is the Marketing Director for Wildlife Works, a conservation company mitigating climate change that operates a carbon neutral, fair trade factory in Kenya. She co-founded the Sustainable Fashion Alliance a member-based group of fashion professionals committed to ethical fashion. Joyce also founded thebookr.com, the first online direct-to-talent booking platform; and most recently, launched marlinray.com, beach accessories that bring together beauty, function and sustainability.
Nicholas Olmsted,
Creative Director
Nicholas Olmsted is an Illustrator, painter, and advocate for homeless youth. He has led various art collaborations and mural projects in the cities of Minneapolis, Portland, Brooklyn and San Francisco. He studied Illustration and Graphic Design at Pacific Northwestern College of Art. He has worked with such clients as LYFT, Yahoo and Navitas and consulted Facebook on diversity and inclusiveness.
As seen in...
Vogue Business
Inside the Kenyan apparel factory that doubles as a wildlife reservationSourcing Journal
West Coast Way: Is California the Sustainable Fashion Capital of the US?Rivet
rivet magazine's LA editionRACKED
American Airlines Seems to Be Gaslighting Its Employees Over FashionFORBES
20 Fashion Revolutionaries Making Sustainability A Fashion Must-Have LuxuryVICE
This Is How Sweat-Wicking Clothing Actually WorksCA Apparel News
L.A. Textile Show Reflects Apparel Industry ChangesSF Chronicle
Bay Area eco-fashion 101: Who, what and wearROCKYT STYLE
25 Bay Area Women Who Are Slaying the #GirlBoss GameNBC Bay Area
New Fashion Trend: Fighting Climate ChangeEco Justice Radio
The Steep Environmental and Social Costs of the Fashion Industry7x7
A San Francisco Grassroots Campaign Asks "Who Made Your Clothes?"Show More