Our First Principles
When we were touring potential manufacturing partners, we weren’t only looking for top-notch quality, we were also looking for smiles, laughter, music, good lighting, and passion for craft. Our factories are right here in the United States so that we can visit them frequently to ensure healthy wages and happy workspaces. If our clothes feel particularly comfortable, it might just be because they were made with love.
#1: Care for our People
#2: Care for our ecosystems
Each of our garments is constructed from fabrics that can’t be scaled infinitely because they are tied to specific ecosystems, mills, and factories with unique traits, traditions, and techniques. We find resonance in leaving our poplin fabric unbleached so you can see the natural color cotton from which it is made, and our goal is to invest at every step, from the farm to the finished product.
If you check our care labels, you’ll find a question: “are you ready to start a relationship with this garment?” From the fabrics we select to the designs we create, we make clothing worth making your own. we build in adjustability wherever possible and carefully pick fabrics that will only grow better with age and care. A purchase from FPC is just the beginning of a conversation, and we hope to work closely with you to build the looks you’ve always dreamed of.
#3: Care for our stories
Let’s admit it: The fashion industry has become hooked on cheap plastic fabrics derived from oil. This isn’t just bad for the planet, it’s also bad for our bodies, saturating us in endocrine disrupters and polluting our ecosystems with forever chemicals.
We construct our clothes from only 100% delightful, natural fibers. Try them on and tell us it doesn’t feel better.
#4: Care for our bodies
We are convinced that the true measure of a garment should be how easily it can be returned to the earth and not simply its carbon footprint. This means we invest not only in domestic sourcing and manufacturing to decrease our emissions, but also in developing garments that can be recycled or, better yet, planted in your garden.
#5: Care for our planet
A note on the ‘s’ word
To us, true sustainability is the ability to maintain our work in perpetuity without negative effects on people or the planet. We believe It is not a spectrum, it is a binary.
Our products are responsibly made in partnership with the farmers and factories fighting their hardest to leave our communities and ecosystems better off, and we are relentlessly pursuing truly sustainable products.