Founded in 2014 by Alyssa Lau, New Classics Studios is an Edmonton-based multi-brand e-retailer that merges classic and timeless design with social responsibility and environmental awareness through their edit of slow fashion brands. New Classics offers a platform that introduces, benefits and supports the creators and designers who are initiating the way for the slow fashion movement in innovative and unique ways, all the while committing to being as transparent as humanly possible about the brands and products they carry.

Designer Kelsy Parkhouse continues to find inspiration in her southern California roots for Carleen, her line of cool, quirky women’s wear. Folk-art motifs, fine art and domestic manufacturing are also mainstays for the emerging designer. After her thesis collection at the Pratt Institute found rave reviews in 2012 and receiving the inaugural Liz Clairborne Concept to Product Award, Kelsy ventured out on her own straight out of school and never looked back.