Two makers, business-owners, mothers — artfully transmuting land-based raw materials into simple yet luxurious sustainable goods.

Designers have a unique opportunity in our textile systems to turn natural materials grown on our regional landscapes into beautiful, long-lasting goods that serve our communities.

Alix’s body primacy and thoughtfulness resurrect the priorities that drove the creation of humanity’s first garments: what a particular body needed based on a person’s activities and lived experience, their local climate, land context, and available fibers.

Herderin is a clothing design studio focused on creating sustainable silhouettes that embolden the body’s natural architecture, and make people feel comfortable.

The cure for the dizzying pace of modern life may well be to spend the afternoon with Alix Vasquez. Or hopefully, simply to read about her.

A Chicago architect and a San Francisco sociologist illuminate the Windy City with Kodama “lights for the soul

“Our practice invites others to experience what the day to day could feel like when we are brought back to our native origins, living in harmony with nature in our modern time.”

“There seems to be more job seekers who are willing to take any job,” Alexandria Vasquez, a lead researcher with the Institute for Career Transitions and Brandeis University sociology professor.

Herderin’s clothing is made to expand and contract with freedom being the foundation to their approach in design. Now that’s a mission we can get behind.