Cabbages & Kings is a premium line of children’s apparel from New York, founded by designer Alexandra Gizela. The brand focuses on high quality and multi-fuctional pieces according with today’s design conscience and environment awareness.
Cabbages & Kings is all about providing practical and stylish essentials for infants and children without compromising their safety and the quality of the pieces. The brand is a strong supporter of fair trade and strives to build bridges between artisans of excellence and socially responsible consumers. All of the accessories are hand made by the Sumaq Ruracc, a Quechua-speaking group that live in an Andean Valley in Peru. The Sumaq Ruracc work in collaboration with a network made up of 14 community groups, churches and non-governmental organizations called Bridge of Hope that work to strengthen the capacities of local, participating institutions and base communities.
Cabbages & Kings was created with the need of having cool, stylish and comfortable knit clothes and accessories. They use colour combinations and patterned designs that evoke a sense of whimsical play suitable for the taste of the parents and child.
Read a full interview with Alexandra Gizela here.
Florence Rolando
Launched in London in early 2009 by Florence Rolando (journalist, co-founder of Bubble Trade Shows) Pirouette Blog has been a reference in the industry since 2009 with its combined business and consumer view of the children’s market. A fantastic resource for children’s fashion, design, trends and culture, it aims to support creativity and talent but it also does this by talking about life, family, culture and health.
Florence is an international leader in the industry (8 years as a Milk Collaborator, contributor to Naif Magazine in Spain, co-founder of Bubble Trade Shows in New York and London).
Now Florence runs Energy Therapy Porto @enrgy_therapy_porto
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