Isabel Slone

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Isabel Slone

The last couple years haven’t been kind to slow fashion. Brand after brand that prioritised fair pay, sustainably sourced fabrics and manufacturing in small quantities to eliminate waste has succumbed to a combination of rising costs and consumer indifference. Among the casualties in the last year alone:Ilana Kohn, Wray NYC, Alder Apparel, Ana + Zac and Esby Apparel. Things may get worse before they get better. In surveys, fewer consumers list sustainability as a top priority when shopping.

2 weeks ago | fashionmagazine.com | Isabel Slone

Courtney Rafuse loves the smell of rot. The Toronto-based perfumer has been mixing up spicy, skunky potions for her brand, Universal Flowering, since 2016. Rafuse is known for creating challenging scents that contain notes of blood (cleverly described as “copper wire accord”) and sweat. Reviewers have described her fragrances as smelling like “Barbie in the microwave.” Yet despite their prominent elements of filth and decay, Universal Flowering perfumes are considered anything but fetid.

2 weeks ago | freakpalace.substack.com | Isabel Slone

Greetings from Laredo, Texas. I’m here to check out Laredo Thrifting Tours, an organization that aims to divert waste from the landfill by bringing tourists out to dig through massive piles of unwanted clothing. All told, there are somewhere between 20-40 ropa usadas (or, giant used clothing warehouses) where thrift stores in Dallas, Atlanta etc. truck their unsold stuff and let me tell you, I have struck gold at these places.

1 month ago | fashionmagazine.com | Isabel Slone

“I don’t know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter,” Greta Gerwig told NPR while promoting her coming-of-age film Lady Bird. Mother-daughter relationships can run the gamut from chummy and close to downright estranged, but for the ones who have chosen to go into business together, these complicated relationships seem pretty well figured out.

1 month ago | thelogic.co | Isabel Slone

2025 was supposed to be the year the economy bounced back—but browsing LinkedIn gives a different impression. Peppered amidst the “some personal news” job announcements, #NowHiring and bloviating attempts at thought leadership, are plenty of dispiriting tales involving companies stealing unpaid work from job candidates or automated rejection notices sent minutes after applying for a job.