Sun, Apr 19, 2020
Luke Gledhill from Just Up The Road brand consulting, sits down with Dechel Mckillian. Dechel is a celebrity stylist originally from Los Angeles whose clients include Drake, Nicki Minaj, Fergie, and Lionel Richie. After traveling the world with music artists like the Black Eyed Peas and Lil Wayne, Dechel saw firsthand the negative impact fashion has on our people and planet. Dechel brings over a decade of fashion industry experience to GALERIE.LA and has worked with the world's biggest retailers including GOOP, Clare V, Steven Alan and TopShop. Realizing the gap between sustainable fashion and her experiences in lifestyle and entertainment, she launched GALERIE.LA to present a tightly curated selection of brands with a shared philosophy. Dechel founded GALERIE.LA with the mission to bring socially conscious fashion to the masses. Dechel is passionate about linking cutting-edge movements in urban culture, entertainment and music with the possibilities of sustainable design and fashion.. Culture Your Creative is an event born out of the passion to help, inform and mentor anyone who has a passion, goal or side hustle, to encourage people to follow their dreams and to take risks.
Tue, Apr 21, 2020
Atelier and Repairs is a design-driven product and services platform dedicated to circularity. We approach design from the perspective of sustaining a product through many lives by utilizing intentionally selected leftover and sustainably made textiles while manufacturing with as little environmental impact as possible. Our mission is to establish a new world standard of infinite reuse by reducing excess at both artisanal and industrial levels. As the driving force behind Atelier and Repairs, Maurizio Donadi has assembled a concept that creatively weaves his personal affinity for all things well-lived with his desire to reconcile the excess he has witnessed, and been a part of, for 35 years in the apparel industry.
Mon, May 4, 2020
Daniel Kasidi is the founder and CEO of Rastaclat, a brand of sneaker-inspired bracelets that inspire a positive mindset and a reminder to do good for yourself and others and to always seek the positive. "Seek the positive is about inspiring and challenging human beings to keep positivity on the forefront of everything they do by being inspired, doing good for themselves, doing good for others, and educating oneself."
Tue, May 26, 2020
Denim is the worst offender when it comes to unnecessary water waste in the fashion industry. It has become my mission to shine a light on the un-sustainable way most denim is produced. I do this by educating people on how we conserve our planet's most important resource by reducing the massive water consumption of our planet's most beloved material, denim. Triarchy / Atelier Denim is a low water, sustainably produced denim brand that I am responsible for designing and manufacturing. Everything we do has to fit our model of sustainable production, or we don't do it.
Mon, May 18, 2020
Garrain dealt with homelessness for 2 ½ years, living out of his car and feeling like he was drowning in misery, as well as being sent to prison for 2 ½ years. Yet, going through both of those difficulties, and more, he found a way to turn his life around. Garrain's story is a perfect example of how you can go through so many difficult things in life, but that it doesn't mean you'll never find success. In a place of difficulty, Garrain developed the strength to rescue himself. Health and fitness play such a big role in his life because he grew up thinking success was in material things. It wasn't until he got healthy that he started to feel different. Once he started to feel different he then started to think, speak, and act differently. His actions changed based on how he was feeling. "You can only reach a certain level of happiness when you're not healthy. There's no way you can be happy if your heart isn't healthy!" 6 ½ years after being homeless, Garrain is now a serial entrepreneur who motivates and inspires thousands. The knowledge he gained while being shaped and molded sent him down the pathway to become a Transformation Coach. He is an advocate for living a healthy life, business coach, speaker, and author of the soon-to-be-released book, "Change Your Mindset Change Your Life."
Wed, May 13, 2020
Mark Mastrandrea is the co-founder of IKONICK, a Los Angeles brand putting a new spin on the business of inspiring others through art. Embodying popular culture, our exclusive collections exist to motivate in a way that's entirely our own. Whether you're working out of a cubicle or hustling with an ocean view, we've created hundreds of pieces to motivate you through your mornings, days, and nights. Fed up with the dead-end jobs that were going nowhere, we felt our ambition draining away at our desks, so we decided to leave it all behind and set out to create something that would inspire ourselves and others to chase those ambitions. Started as a passion project in 2016, IKONICK is now one of the fastest growing digital art companies in the world. Our artwork displays in thousands of homes and offices spaces. We partnered up with entrepreneurial icons Gary Vaynerchuk and Scooter Braun, and earned licensing rights for the NBA, Muhammad Ali, Marilyn Monroe, and many others. We are dedicated to producing affordable high-quality canvas art that's guaranteed to make you sit up straight, put your head down and go follow your passion.
Thu, May 28, 2020
Auset found herself traveling two hours by bus just to get the produce she needed to take care of herself and her body. No longer willing to accept this fundamental inequity in food security, she created SÜPRMARKT. In the past two years, the service has delivered over 25,000 pounds of produce to the people in LA who need it most. Auset's passion for food sovereignty, rooted in practical solutions, is contagious-and growing. SÜPRMARKT is a 100% organic grocery pop-up using an innovative, engaging approach to create food security. We offer $25 weekly packages of produce, accept SNAP, and our non-profit foundation educates to make organic living feel easy. We have served up more than 60,000 pounds of food to date and been featured by Forbes, LA Times, Tastemade, and more.