In that respect, do you try to apply this idea of ‘conscious consumerism’ to every aspect of your life?
MB: It definitely feels better. If I had a bad day, I used to walk into a shop and pick something out, and get that same feeling of, ‘Oh, I wore it once and it felt great that one time,’ but now it’s just sitting in my closet. I had a closet full of fast fashion, it was overstuffed in my tiny New York apartment, and yet every time I went into that stuffed closet, I had nothing to wear. It was kind of a cyclical thing of buying more and buying more and buying more—and having less and less to wear. Then when we come across these shopping statistics about how much of our clothing we think we’re giving away, actually goes directly to the garbage dump, it doesn’t feel good. And now that we have—using this less than perfect word—become ‘clothitarians,’ we actually end up spending less, even though each item we purchase costs more. And we’re feeling great about all the things that we have in our closets. It’s been a great transition on a personal level.
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