THR3EFOLD Turns 2 | Our 2 Favorite Things About the Last 2 Years

Written by Jessica Kelly, Founder & CEO of THR3EFOLD

In the last two years since launching THR3EFOLD, it has been a crazy winding road full of extreme highs and lows, so goes the life of a start up, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Since in a very real sense, the world is what we are after. One of our core tenants at THR3EFOLD is celebration, and on our 2nd birthday it would be remiss of me to let the opportunity for cake and confetti pass us by. Who am I kidding? Pass the champagne.  So to celebrate our birthday, here’s my 2 favorite things about the last 2 years. ​

​1 | Being Schooled in Ethical Fashion
I had zero idea I was going back to school when I started THR3EFOLD. In addition to the many lessons entrepreneurship taught me, I found myself in my own online college for ethical fashion. I found myself asking things like:

• What on earth is an ethical certification?
• Wait...there are ethical factories in Asia?
• Does organic fabric really matter?​

Every post, every conversation, had hours of research behind it. Checking resources, sorting out opinions of both professionals, fans, and “fake news”. Constantly not accepting the easiest answer or my general assumption, I always dug deeper, even though it was uncomfortable and I didn’t always like the answer I got. Most work sessions spiraled into 30 open Google Chrome tabs, seemingly with no correlation as my curiosity was piqued in a million directions that all tie into the hub that is fashion and it’s impact on the world. Which brings me to point of celebration number deux: you.

2 | Connecting with a World Changing Community
You don’t accept “no”. You don’t pause from “it’s never been done”. You laugh in the face of “impossible”. YOU are the reason we are continually inspired in our work. Our mission is to serve you while also building developing economies around the world. Linking arms with you to push this vision forward not only gets us up each day, it fuels our midnight fire too.

• You create documentaries
• You write books
• You build the conversation, run the brands, and realize the dreams of so many.
• Not only that, but the simple shirt we are wearing, connects us each to approximately 25-35 people around the world! What?!​

Long heart-felt story short, I never cease to be amazed and touched by the overwhelming generosity, creativity, bravery, and heart that makes up the ethical fashion community. It not only creates a positive environment to do business well and profit and scale and grow, but it challenges the status quo of the traditional fashion industry, it raises needed questions with consumers, and it most importantly supports all our workers from being exploited and forgotten. Thank you for all you do.

Happy Birthday THR3EFOLD!
May we be exponentially more impactful in the next two years as we have been in the last!

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