Wearing Farm-to-Closet is an invitation to wear your values. Each purchase helps replenish even more soil and sequester even more carbon. It’s not a donation, it’s an opportunity to participate in a solution — one where you look good and feel good at the same time.
We Didn’t Just Buy Cotton...
Over The Past Few Years,
The Christy Dawn × Oshadi Farm Has:
Nourished 219 acres of land where our cotton is farmed, ginned, woven, vegetable-dyed, and block-printed using centuries-old methods in harmony with Nature.
Directly addressed climate change, successfully drawing down more than 2 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
Increased biodiversity in the soil, meaning organisms, insects and animals have returned to what was once chemically-treated, barren land.
Farmers have gained financial independence. Everyone from Farm-to-Closet was paid a living wage.
Implemented indigenous practices of regenerative agriculture and traditional artistry.
Yielded beautiful, healthy, regenerative cotton for Christy Dawn’s Farm-to-Closet Collection.
Regenerative
Cotton Fabric
The answer, of course, is soil.
We stand on soil.
Replenishing the soil through regenerative practices is proven to reverse climate change.
When you shop Farm-to-Closet, you are actively joining the Regenerative Evolution. Each purchase helps replenish even more soil, sequester even more carbon. Plus, you’re wearing a garment with reciprocity stitched into every seam. If you pay attention, you can feel it.
Learn more about our Farm-to-Closet journey in our journals
Nature is self-healing — regenerative farming fosters the plants and soil’s innate ability to build the health and resilience of their ecosystem. By using native seeds and holistic, indigenous farming practices, farmers can revitalize soil and draw down carbon. Regenerative farming not only heals the land’s immediate ecosystem but helps heal Mother Earth from climate change.
We chose to work with India as much as India chose to work with us. Two years ago, we started our journey towards growing regenerative cotton and immediately connected with the community at Oshadi Collective in Southern India. The synchronicity of Oshadi Collective’s expertise in light-weight cotton, natural dyes, and block prints combined with our love of flowing, effortless dresses has evolved into a beautiful collaboration.
As we’ve grown, we’ve come to realize that relationships are at the core of everything we do — relationships to people, to Mother Earth, and to ourselves. Our farm with Oshadi Collective in India, the cotton plants aren't burned and depleted, but grown in a way that nourishes the soil for future plants and provides farmers, spinners, weavers and dyers with a living wage, access to healthcare, opportunities for growth and education, and a method for preserving ancient practices and traditions. This in turn gave us healthy, regenerative cotton for this collection. What’s good for Mother Earth is good for us, too.
The farm is a collaboration between Christy Dawn and Oshadi Collective. Christy Dawn pays all farm costs — from the lease and farmers’ wages to the neem oil used as a pest repellent. Oshadi Collective has managed the farm and made sure our joint vision for a regenerative ecosystem comes to fruition. After farming, the artisans at Oshadi Collective weave, dye, and print the farm cotton, transforming it into beautiful fabric.
Of course! Our vision is to grow Farm-to-Closet over the next few years so that all our cotton comes from regenerative farms and all of our dresses are created from direct relationships with farmers and soil. We will achieve this by investing a part of the profit from every Christy Dawn dress back into the soil with the awareness that regeneration is a continuous practice. We are excited to improve and foster even more healing in the future!
It takes a community to create a Christy Dawn garment. We work intimately with our partners to ensure every member of the community is paid a fair living wage for their contribution. Reciprocal relationships are at the center of everything we do at Christy Dawn. Ones in which everyone is taken care of- that means our entire community makes at least a living wage.
We work with our partners and research region-specific studies to ensure everyone is paid fairly because a dress can only be considered beautiful if the process used to produce it preserves the integrity and beauty of the Earth and her people.
The regenerative cotton farmers earn 60% more than the average farmer in their region
The average farmer wage is above the living wage* for the region
*according to the Global Living Wage Coalition
All the weavers, printers, dyers, and tailors post-farm make at least the living wage* for the region
*according to the Global Living Wage Coalition
All dressmakers at our LA factory make at least 25% more than LA’s minimum wage and equal to or more than LA’s living wage*
*according to MIT’s Living Wage Calculator
All sweaters made with our Peruvian partners are made in Fairtrade-certified workshops
All of Christy Dawn’s shoes are made in a workshop in Guatemala that pays a living wage*
*based on World Bank data and interviews with employees
