🌍✂️ Elena Rivera: The Girl Next Door Who Stitched the World Together

Hey love, I’m Elena—your friendly neighborhood sustainable fashion designer with a suitcase perpetually half-packed. 🌿✨ I grew up in a tiny coastal town where my grandma taught me to sew using scraps of old curtains (yes, those floral ones). Little did I know, those stitches would become the threads tying me to every corner of the globe.

At 19, I sold my first upcycled dress made from thrifted tablecloths (shoutout to Parisian flea markets 🛍️💋). The next thing I knew? I was bartering handmade jackets for homestays in Bali, teaching zero-waste workshops in Tokyo backstreets, and crying over way too-strong chai in Mumbai when a stranger told me my designs "felt like a hug." That’s all I’ve ever wanted—clothes that hug the earth and your soul.

Now? I’m somewhere between a linen-clad sunrise in Portugal and a midnight fabric hunt in Marrakech’s medina. My life’s a messy, beautiful patchwork of passport stamps, mispronounced words (sorry, nonna), and dresses that tell stories. Like this one 👗—woven from sari silk rescued from a landfill. Fashion shouldn’t cost the earth… but it should make you feel like you’re flying. ✈️💫

P.S. I still trip over my own feet daily. Perfection is so last season. 😉