Tiller Talk
Female Founder Spotlight: Raquel Phillips, Founder of Qatch
Tiller’s founder, Kathleen Sheppard, sat down with Raquel Phillips to kick off our first ever Female Founders/Creators spotlight. Started by Raquel and Nicole Phillips, Qatch is a monthly subscription service that provides fashion recommendations, personalized styling and interactive shopping right from your phone. These sisters are recreating what it means to have a personal shopper and innovating the shopping experience for all.
How to Save Your Swimsuit from Turning into Trash
You are killing the sustainable fashion game- you only purchase items that you love and make sure they last. You know how to score the best secondhand steals and when to buy brand-new. You can spot a green-washed marketing campaign a mile away and many of your very favorite clothes used to be water bottles or fishing nets - like our recycled, reversible swimwear.
But what is a sustainable...
Microplastics: How Fashion Ends Up in Our Food
If you had to guess, how much plastic would you say that you eat every single year? Chances are- not very much, right?
That would totally be true, if we were only talking about the plastic that you see and recognize in daily life like bottles, containers, or toys- items larger than say, a sesame seed.
What Does “Sustainable Fashion” Even Mean - and Why Does it Matter?
We know that shopping sustainably is important, but what does it even mean? What makes something “sustainable”?
Upcycling 101
While there are many methods for getting rid of clothing that no longer serves you, one of the most important is upcycling. Upcycling programs repurpose unwanted clothing so they never see a landfill.