Jessica Shaver

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    • Home
    • Contact Me
    • Design
      • New Apparel Concepts
      • Teaching Technology
      • Apparel Designs
      • Textile Designs
      • Things I do for Love
      • The Early Years
    • Research
  • Home
  • Contact Me
  • Design
    • New Apparel Concepts
    • Teaching Technology
    • Apparel Designs
    • Textile Designs
    • Things I do for Love
    • The Early Years
  • Research

building systems for circular fashion

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Scavenging the textile waste stream for new opportunities in regenerative design and degrowth mindset.

Contact Me

jessica.rae.shaver@gmail.com

What is sustainable Fashion?

Epiphany Moment

In early 2010, I stood in an NYC office work room surrounded by discarded textiles that each represented 500 ready-to-ship garments that were to be burned, discarded, or otherwise wasted. I had been working in the fashion industry since 2006, but it was the first time I actually felt like a professional fashion designer.  Doing the math in my head X*500, but it really didn't matter what the X equaled. I was heartbroken in an instant.


On my subway ride home that night I asked myself for the first time: What is sustainable fashion?


Answering that question drives my curiosity and passion still.

About me

Fashion Loving Nature Girl

I love living in Longmont, CO at the doorway to Rocky Mountain National Park and I am a proud Colorado gal. But I was always obsessed with fashion, textiles, and design.  I left CO for Brooklyn NY at 18 spent the next decade living the city life.

I returned to Colorado in 2016 to pursue my goals of finding truly regenerative solutions for the fashion industry.

Experience

Community

Professional

Professional

Board Member (Volunteer)

  • Mountains & Plains Fibershed; Secretary of Board, Feb.2023-Present.
  • Sustainable Resilient Longmont (SRL); Secretary of Board, Dec.2023-Present.

Volunteer-Member

  • SRL Earth Day
  • SRL Zero Waste
  • PAST: OUR Center, Equitable Climate Action Team

Professional

Professional

Professional

Sustainable Apparel Entrepreneur, 

2012-Present 

  • Vulture Collective, 2022-Present
  • Bittersweet x Design, 2012-2017

Apparel & Textile Designer, 2006-2016.

  • Sr. Designer: Hearts of Palm, LLC.; Li & Fung/Global Brands Group; Authentic Brands Group; Chicos
  • Designer/CAD Specialist: Hanes, Kohls, Macy's, Jones Group, Gap Int'l., Kmart
  • Intern: Oxford Ind., Golf.

Academia

Professional

Academia

Colorado State University, Dept. Design & Merch., Fort Collins, CO. 2017-2020.

  • Master of Science, Apparel & Merchandising. Dec 2020.
  •  Adjunct Faculty, Aug 2019-May 2020.

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 2003-2007

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fashion Design. May 2007.
  • Textile Design Certificate, DIS Copenhagen. 2005.

How I Got Here

Full CV of Past Professional and Academic Experience

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