Eileen Fisher

I mean, yeah, I don't know.

I feel like this is why Eileen Fisher exists, right? Exactly.

Right.

And there's I mean, you can find so much secondhand Eileen Fisher on like Poshmark, Depop, eBay.

I don't know.

Have you ever used the app Gem? I've heard of it.

It searches all the resale sites.

So like you can search for like Eileen Fisher, you know, 1X shirt and it will search like I think it's Poshmark, Depop, eBay, maybe some others.

The, the, the stores which are catering to us are much...

Like, they, yeah, like, like JJill and Eileen Fisher, but again, this is not exactly zestful party clothing.

No, it isn't.

[laughs] So Torrid, didn't it go out of business?

It was going to Latin America.

And a lot of our early work was supply chain, so we've been working with Eileen Fisher, Green Mountain Coffee, Fair Trade USA, Inter-American Development Bank, which funded a lot of the, the innovation in, in, in Latin America, like the really cutting-edge, risky things that fueled the whole sector growth, the whole region growth.

But a number of clients in Latin America started saying, "Well, you guys should start going to Africa because there's no one like you bringing the business savvy, the investment savvy to this ecosystem and helping us to build the strategy or restructure the programs that we thought were building small businesses and bringing in, f- you know, attracting foreign capital.

But there's something off, and we know there's something off.

I love it so much.

I will tell you one thing that I will buy that even if it's not perfect for me, there are a couple of companies, one of them is Eileen Fisher, that if you bring one of their pieces into their store, they will repair it for free.

And

so I found an Eileen Fisher sweater that I loved, but it had a little hole in it.

And about, I don't know, four weeks ago, I took it into the Eileen Fisher store and they're sending it away to be repaired for free.

And so that's when, like, I wouldn't pay.

It would be hard for me to pay full price for something that was already damaged.

So this is like the things that they could never sell in their stores.

"I don't need water.

I need a job." That sentence became Dumas, now the only women-owned solar-powered factory in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with partners including the UN, Kenneth Cole, Eileen Fisher, Nordstrom.

So many brands that we all have heard of and admire.

And Julie, you are doing work that is so needed right now.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Like Eileen Fisher?

Yes.

I feel like that's used for a lot of good stuff.

If you've spent any time with us on this show, you know how much I care about the people, the ideas, and the work that are moving fashion towards a more thoughtful and responsible future.

And when we talk about sustainability in American fashion, Eileen Fisher is an important part of that story.

For decades, the company has helped move conversations forward around longevity, responsible design, textile waste, garment take-back, reuse, and circularity.

There is true legacy there, and what excites me just as much is seeing how that legacy continues to evolve.

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... is a New York-based designer and circularity strategist recognized for advancing innovative business models that transform how fashion systems operate and divert textile waste from landfill.

As circular design lead at Eileen Fisher, Carmen leads the integration of circular principles into design and operations, developing scalable systems that extend product life cycles, recover value, and reduce environmental impact.

All of my favorite things.

And one, I remember a conversation I had.

We talked to Eileen Fisher, who is a, an amazing fashion designer, and she was and is super introverted.

And She, you know, she just wanted to make very simple, elegant clothing for women.

She was not super experienced.

It was four garments.

Well, so what did you end up calling it for that, for that show?

So I called it Eileen Fisher because I couldn't think of anything else.

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