Clothes for a cause!

"Clothes For A Cause" is a line sold and produced by The Art Commune, founded and produced by artist and DU BFA student Syd Lee. The point of the "Clothes (And Stuff) For A Cause" line is to have themed collections where each collection donates 10% of its profits to a coinciding charity. Even though we're just a team of broke college art students, we wanted to use our business platform and artwork to help others and our community somehow. Our hope is that if we, as a small up and coming business, can use our platform for a good cause, perhaps we can inspire bigger business to take similar action.

We also strive to be as eco-friendly and sustainable as possible, again as a hope to inspire other businesses to be more considerate of their choices and how they can better the environment and community. Our clothing is up-cycled vintage in a fight against fast fashion and garment waste, and majority of our jewelry is made from biodegradable bioplastics made from algae, as a resin substitute because of resins inability to compost. Even screen-printing on recycled Bristol paper, as a subtle hope to make the small changes which can create big impact.

A big part of our brand is not limiting what kind of work our artists can create so our mediums can highly vary but the collection currently consists of a line of hand-embroidered and screen-printed up-cycled vintage apparel created by Syd Lee, as well as a line of jewelry. The collections will also include totes, screen-prints, candles, drawings, ceramics, etc. Each collection is different and usually the medium is chosen to enhance the subject matter.

Our first collection to debut is "The Save The Bees" project which donates 10% of its profits to The Bee Conservancy, a foundation dedicated to the conservation and protection of Bee habitats all around the globe.