Kathleen Temple and Kaitie Atchison are two fashionistas with their sartorial hearts in the right place. They have created a 25 piece collection using fair-trade fabrics that will be available at
Artisan's Hope starting this Saturday, April 19th, with a fundraiser open house from 2:30-5pm. All of the proceeds from the collection will benefit Artisan's Hope and encourage the dynamic duo to produce more fair-trade and sustainable clothing.
The idea for this fundraiser originated with Kaitie, a senior at Broadway High School who volunteers for Artisan's Hope and works downtown at Ragtime Fabrics with Kathleen. "I'd learn about different artisans and how the process works and then I'd come to work and want to share it with someone," says Kaitie, who found a kindred spirit in Kathleen, a former pastor and religious studies professor at Eastern Mennonite University.
Aside from this capsule collection for Artisans Hope, Kaitie and Kathleen hope to continue working with sustainable fabrics and to possibly broaden their market. "There's bound to be more of a market for fair trade," notes Kaitie, who laments that Wal-Mart and other big box retailers are jumping on the organic bandwagon as it undermines the local growth that is key to the green movement. "We wouldn't have had this idea much less been able to do it if we weren't [working] at a totally independent store," comments Kathleen.
The collection includes dresses and skirts, as well as inexpensive "treasure bags." Prices for the clothing range from $50-$100 and the bags will sell for under $20. Artisans Hope is located off Mt. Clinton Pike, next to Gift-'n-Thrift. Dear readers, if your bank account enables you to support this wonderful cause I cannot encourage you enough to scoop up as many pieces as possible! If you can't make it to the open house on Saturday, the collection will be for sale until October (if it doesn't sell out much sooner). All of the clothing modeled in these photographs is from the collection (aside from Kaitie's t-shirt and cardigan). Ragtime Fabrics is located downtown at 60 W. Market Street, just around the corner from The Artful Dodger. Visit their website for more information!
Kathleen Temple and Kaitie Atchison are two fashionistas with their sartorial hearts in the right place. They have created a 25 piece collection using fair-trade fabrics that will be available at Artisan's Hope starting this Saturday, April 19th, with a fundraiser open house from 2:30-5pm. All of the proceeds from the collection will benefit Artisan's Hope and encourage the dynamic duo to produce more fair-trade and sustainable clothing.
The idea for this fundraiser originated with Kaitie, a senior at Broadway High School who volunteers for Artisan's Hope and works downtown at Ragtime Fabrics with Kathleen. "I'd learn about different artisans and how the process works and then I'd come to work and want to share it with someone," says Kaitie, who found a kindred spirit in Kathleen, a former pastor and religious studies professor at Eastern Mennonite University.
Aside from this capsule collection for Artisans Hope, Kaitie and Kathleen hope to continue working with sustainable fabrics and to possibly broaden their market. "There's bound to be more of a market for fair trade," notes Kaitie, who laments that Wal-Mart and other big box retailers are jumping on the organic bandwagon as it undermines the local growth that is key to the green movement. "We wouldn't have had this idea much less been able to do it if we weren't [working] at a totally independent store," comments Kathleen.
The collection includes dresses and skirts, as well as inexpensive "treasure bags." Prices for the clothing range from $50-$100 and the bags will sell for under $20. Artisans Hope is located off Mt. Clinton Pike, next to Gift-'n-Thrift. Dear readers, if your bank account enables you to support this wonderful cause I cannot encourage you enough to scoop up as many pieces as possible! If you can't make it to the open house on Saturday, the collection will be for sale until October (if it doesn't sell out much sooner). All of the clothing modeled in these photographs is from the collection (aside from Kaitie's t-shirt and cardigan). Ragtime Fabrics is located downtown at 60 W. Market Street, just around the corner from The Artful Dodger. Visit their website for more information!
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