How founder Liz Pape turned a hobby into a multimillion-dollar sustainable, size-inclusive business.
, dresses that swish rather than cling. Founder Liz Pape turned a hobby into a multimillion-dollar business and credits a pivotal day at a craft fair for convincing her there might be enough interest in her designs to make a livelihood. But her biggest success has nothing to do with clothes.was down to 3%, already making ES’s Nashville factory/headquarters, which was founded in 2013 and now employs over 40 people, an anomaly. But many companies producing apparel in the U.S.
has watched sustainability in fashion move from a niche concern to a mainstream buzzword, particularly picking up steam in the past few years. Because sustainably produced clothes are often more expensive, Cline sees the conversation snag on cost. But that cost is often very narrowly defined. “We consistently overlook and ignore the extractive, exploitative heart of the fast fashion system,” she says.
But the high cost of these items can also make sustainability seem out of reach or like an elitist concern. Maxine Bédat, the founder and director of the, a nonprofit that brings scientific rigor to fashion’s sustainability and labor issues by offering resources for brands hoping to improve their environmental and social impact, raises a legitimate concern.
Only two staffers are part-time, and the full-timers are eligible to receive vision, dental, and health insurance through the company. Sixty-five percent of staffers are paid an hourly wage, which starts at $14 per hour with performance raises between 3 to 7%. In order to align with the, they’ll be adjusting to a $15 per hour starting wage in the coming months and increasing the speed of performance-based raises.
While the kind of benefits they offer do have some benefit for the bottom line — improving employee retention, for example — that’s not what’s driving Pape and Martucci. The way the clothes are made speaks to the couple’s commitments, Pape says. Instead of assembly-line production, which results in hours of rote sewing or cutting the same piece over and over, an employee will spend the day making a number of different pieces.
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