I'm a sociologist and a designer. And for most of my life, I've been a tall woman who couldn't find clothes that fit.
Herderin started there — in that gap between what my research told me about identity and embodiment, and what the market was actually offering bodies like mine. Clothing is infrastructure for the self. When it doesn't fit, the work of getting dressed becomes a different kind of labor — compensating, adjusting, making do. I wasn't interested in making do.
So I built something else.
Herderin is a regenerative clothing brand designed from the ground up for tall women — not adjusted for us, not extended to include us, but centered on us from the very first pattern. Every piece is sewn in San Francisco using Climate Beneficial certified and regenerative materials and plant-based dyes, because the way something is made is inseparable from what it means to wear it.
Seven years of research, development, and making have gone into this. It is, in the truest sense, my life's work made wearable.
visit herderin.com for more information.
collaborators and contributors
Josh Soyombo, Dr. Helene Jones, Alexis Fujii, Alice Money, Gigi Yore, Lily Hourigan, Flavia Dawson, Johnny Fan, Stella Lee Harry, Alexandra Nugent, Simrah Farrukh, Naomi Hawksley, Jessa Carta, Aja Dewolf Moura, Edan Winckler, Eli Elisco, Johanna Butterworth, Justus Hendrix, Maeve O’Sullivan, Everett Noel, Natalie Silva, Mary Claire Hancock, Christine Mineart, Brynna Levine, Hubbard Jones, Marcee Jones, Christina Moreno, Palko Roman, Desiree Thornton, Justine Vivien, Ulysses Ortega, Cristina Moreno, Ombia Studio, Liis Fragrances, Megan Bre Camp, Summer Solace Tallow, Harper The Label.
