BY SXD. ZERO WASTE DESIGNS FOR ALL BODIES.
The kimono is the OG zero waste garment. One bolt of fabric. Minimum cuts. No waste.
Drawing from the original kimono concept, SXD has designed its first capsule collection to unleash the power of this beautifully pure idea.
Brilliant minds and technology combined to propel the time-tested philosophy into the now and the future—
An outburst of audacious ideas ensued, giving life to inspired ingredients that have coalesced to form new shapes, new visual languages, new possibilities.
What remains is an unwavering commitment to generate zero waste and to do right by our planet’s resources.
This collection is the product of looking behind us, inside of us, and ultimately beyond us, to create something that feels familiar yet avant-garde, comforting yet daring, and uncompromisingly sustainable.
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This #zerowaste lab coat is made out of upcycled @verawang silk. Silk is a pretty amazing natural material that is used in surgical sutures. I get to unwaste it and make some lab coats with it 🥼💙
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I try on every new #zerowaste design before anyone else to make sure they feel and look great. Lab coats are usually white to convey hope, purity, and cleanliness, but I think the truly clean color is sheer because it allows you to see the layers with transparency. That’s how I want to approach sustainability too 😌💚
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Introducing #zerowaste lab coats that look like art 🤍 It makes my day whenever I can design for badass, brilliant people who inspire me. I got to do that with this lab coat. It’s for an amazing female scientist who also oversees one of the first zero waste production facilities in LA. More to come. In the meantime, here are some behind the scenes rough sketches and footages 😌
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Link in bio for full article and audio! Thank you, @forbes for featuring my last paper at @harvardhbs 😌 I inserted some photos featuring @racheloconnell24 and @bmsheil in this post because after all these years I still can’t read a full page of text without looking at cool pictures 😂
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Still in denial that I’m no longer a student. I’ve been catching up on orders and getting the next batch of our climate refugees jacket together…while looking for apartments and SXD workspaces in #NYC ! It’s been so sunny in the city I think I need two pairs of sunglasses 🕶 🕶 💛
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Can’t believe that I’m now a graduated student of @harvardhbs🤯 grateful for the lifelong friendships, mentors I’ll continue to learn from, and teammates who are now my family. I came to school to make SXD and #zerowastedesign a reality. Proud that we’ve won some of the biggest venture competitions at school and globally during these two years. Also, never would’ve imagined that I’d graduate with distinction 😳!?
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Swipe to see some favorite #fashionposes in our #zerowastedesigns 🖤 can you identify these designs? Happy weekend you all 😘
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!! Thank you for supporting our first batch of these #zerowaste jackets and hearing our story. Next batch is ready for pre-order 💙
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Swipe for illustration. One of those moments when #irl looks better than my #fashionillustration thanks to the fabulous @e_kiomi 🔥 makeup by @bugveemakeup
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Spring time #pink time 💗 loved doing this photoshoot with @e_kiomi yesterday in our #zerowaste jackets . 💄 by @bugveemakeup 💕 Excited to share with you all this week. Have a good week 🌿
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Happy Earth Day 🌎 Everyday is #earthday for us, and we are so grateful for you all. This week, our latest #zerowastedesign work was featured in the cover story of @wwd alongside Chainge Capital and @katlaforce. @tararielle did such an amazing job bringing substance to sustainability and diversity, two deeply intertwined subjects (link in bio!). We were also featured in @instylemagazine alongside @thepangaia and @nomasei_official. There is still so much work to be done. But being in this movement together makes us want to work harder and better. 🌿 swipe to see a few of the incredible seamstresses we work with. Last but not least, thank you @s.glover50 @lapackstallard @izosa.ize for these beautiful photos to showcase our design 💚
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Our latest #zerowaste jacket dissected. So many sketches go into every design we do. Swipe to see a few for this special piece 💙
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Last week, @shellyxudesign won the Grand Prize and the Crowd Favorite Prize at the @harvardhbs New Venture Competition. The first fashion related venture to do so. Thank you so much to those of you who helped make it happen by tuning in and voting for us! I’m sharing here a condensed version of our “elevator pitch.” It gives you a taste of what we envision next. Also, I know this is one of the more formal videos from us, but a fellow female entrepreneur @queenofraw once taught me that having a strong pitch can be the most impactful 60 seconds you invest in communicating your startup. Our elevator pitch can be even better, but hopefully it’s helpful for those of you working on your own ventures. Have a great week everyone 😘
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What do you think of unisex designs? Designing this #zerowastejacket for unisex and one size was pretty hard. We went through months of iterations and put the jacket on as many people as we could from my teammate’s brother in Bangladesh to my classmates at @harvardhbs . But I love design challenges like this. Especially when simplifying the design this way allows us to hire even the newly trained climate refugees and help them get back on their feet with about 4x the local wage. 💙 here are three people wearing the same jacket, one size. More to come 😎
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Link in bio. So excited to share more of this work with you all 😎 There are going to be millions of climate refugees in Bangladesh in the next years—people forced out of their homes due to rising waters and climate change. So my team and I decided to pay them about 4x the local wage to work with us. We created these #zerowastejackets together. The jackets are made out of “roll-end” fabric that usually gets wasted. We wanted to turn that fabric into beauty + possibility. Thank you @WWD and @kaleyroshitsh for covering this project that we put a lot of love and heart into 💙
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How was your weekend? This image captures so many of my favorite things in one place. The beautiful @jadaahawkins , the most serene place on campus at @harvardhbs and this #zerowaste #modernkimono made from upcycled @minervadotcom fabric 💙
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#zerowastedesign x #bluecrane
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Happy Valentine’s Day from a #zerowastejacket and a great model ❤️❤️@epayne25 , photographer: @stephanie_cheong
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Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 ❤️
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Imperfection > perfection. For this collar, I used the edge of the fabric to create a soft end that’s more comfortable. Usually, fabric edges are cut off and thrown away in the factories, but I think they add character to what we wear. They also lead to true zero waste designs. Innovation on the edge? Swipe to see other jackets we’ve designed incorporating fabric edges 🤍
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#SXDiary 2: How was your weekend? I can’t believe it’s almost over! This is the second post in this series of weekly drawings that summarizes my life as a founder. Classes at @harvardhbs officially started this week, and the first thing I learned was...that I need to be a better negotiator 😳 I tend to be an open book, but apparently there’s a lot of prework we should all do before negotiations, like understanding alternatives, baseline for when to walk away, and where mutual agreements might be. On another note, some of my fav parts this week were making and shipping out more #zerowastedesigns. Swipe for some beautiful faces and work in progress designs 😎
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This is one of my favorite photos so far 😌 We were going to do an official product drop for this fabulous yet super soft onesie jumpsuit, but we only have one left! Link in bio. Featuring the beautiful @camalamasaurus ✨
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What do you think? That #zerowaste onesie jumpsuit is coming back with a little more ✨
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#SXDiary 1: Happy weekend! How was your week? Running the #zerowastedesign business of my dreams is fun, but I’ve been missing drawing! Starting today, I’ll be releasing weekly drawings that summarize my week as a founder. This week, in addition to designing, applying for funding and working on this exciting new project coming up (stay tuned 💙) I took a @harvardhbs class on moving beyond DTC (swipe for two of my favorite speakers from day one!). It was super helpful because I just started taking digital marketing more seriously for SXD, and it is HARD! But apparently I’m not alone because the pandemic has made our favorite digital platforms way more crowded and hard to breakthrough. I learned about the importance of collaborating with the best from the start (@fearofgod with Zegna), to not just make people satisfied but blow their minds every time (@christinatosi at @milkbarstore), and to know when to listen to opinions vs commit to what you believe in from your heart (@getthemirror).
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