Comments on: Notes from the Underground

By: Dorrie

Dorrie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:26:53 +0000

Don’t worry the message is getting out. I was happily surprised when my 14 year old only wanted to do his back to school clothes shopping at a local store where they sold clothing made from organic cotton and hemp. He was perfectly happy to get a few less things that he felt really good about. “THe times they are a changing”

By: amyd

amyd — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:26:51 +0000

Ah, truly didn’t write this for all the kudos.
In fact, you’re making my ego swell to new heights so knock it off 🙂
Go designers go!!

By: modaspia

modaspia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:05:13 +0000

you’re tired ?! it never showed amy. thanks for all the wonderful support in ny – it was one of the best experiences i’ve had as a designer meeting everyone and so much of it was because of you.
xoxoxox
ursula

By: alison

alison — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:24:53 +0000

Here’s to persevering, as we designers, and all of those we employ to help us lift off, know it’s a rocky road, but every once in a while, it can be fabulous.

By: amyd

amyd — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:01:44 +0000

Thanks all!
If I didn’t like doing it I wouldn’t.

By: deana

deana — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:49:03 +0000

You are a braver woman than I! Anymore I find myself cowering behind my laptop from the comfort of my office – waiting to hear from the courageous people who dare to work the front (ie: you). I can no longer put my life into the upheaval that is market week… cheers to you for fighting the good fight!

By: Elly D

Elly D — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:57:44 +0000

Dreams, desires and GUTS, that’s what your made of AMY DUFAULT.
Keep your battery charged, people appreciate what you do and who you are.

By: Melissa Baswell

Melissa Baswell — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:50:07 +0000

I sure do love my Amy Dufault. And as always, she hits the nail on the head. As an eco-designer who has been doing this for a loooong time, I still haven’t reached the point where I’ve been able to say this is more than a labor of love. I have an epiphany at least once a year (usually right after I spend a few days in Jamaica in December with my boyfriend’s band – the only real vacation I am able to take) where I decide the life has been sucked out of me for the final time and that life is about enjoying yourself and existing on level where you’re not consumed by work. And every single time, a few weeks go by, and I ignore my epiphany and am back where I started, desperately trying to find a way to make this (eco-fashion) really work in an industry where it just doesn’t seem to fit in. Like Amy, I am bound to this. Whether or not the industry or the world will finally take real notice that this isn’t a trend, or that those of us it in for the right reasons will really start to make solid livings off of it, remains to be seen. But somehow the long hours, paycheck-to-paycheck living, and snubbing from certain top industry ‘it people’ just can’t seem to scare us away from continuing to put everything we have into this concept of eco-fashion. I just can’t seem to turn away from this goal I’ve had for so long. My mama taught me to do the right thing, and to work to change the world, no matter how hard it is. Whether this was a blessing or a curse, I just can’t convince myself to let go of the dream.

By: Luanne

Luanne — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:35:27 +0000

Hey, you, rest up and get back out in the trenches. Sounds like your needed.