I'm Jessica Ford

a costume designer for theater and film. It is my greatest passion to collaborate with writers, directors, actors, and artisans to create characters and tell their stories...

But it's been rocky these past few years and we all need some creative autonomy from time to time.

This is a place to share some lovingly made items between projects. More sizes and styles to come.

One piece at a time.

Visit my Costume Design site here

WHY this now

Wandering through the enormous fast fashion stores, or falling into the bottomless megastores online fills me with dread. Where do these clothes go if they're not sold...if they ARE sold...once they fall apart...once they're last season?

And then next season?  And the next....

Resort! 

Fashion week! 

Churn. It. OUT!!

Throw it away.

Is there any competing with fast and cheap? 

Small businesses don’t stand a chance against exploitative mass production overseas.

The profit is in volume, and we are clicking, shipping and returning our world to death. We don't see the consequences of our disposable bargain basement prices here. It's all washing up on the shores of less powerful countries.

So how do we make things without doing more harm, creating more waste, or stiffing the artisans that make the stuff?

Because...makers gotta make. 

Like starting a restaurant, or a band, or writing the next great novel, the odds feel stacked against you but you do it anyway because the alternative is madness. 

Each ICON sandwich piece is made by (at most) four hands from upcycled and deadstock materials, individually cut and collaged in Los Angeles.

Built to last and get better with age from stuff that's already here.

ONE HANDFUL

is roughly the amount of waste created by the construction of one ICON sandwich piece.

EVERY HANDFUL is recycled through Ridwell, a community of over 100,000 people making an impact through easy porch pickups of materials that can't be recycled curbside.

RIDWELL