What a weekend! 🌟 On Saturday, May 18, over 700+ attendees joined us at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park for a day of music, nourishment, and community — all in support of Sky High Farm's mission to build food sovereignty. In a few short months, our tiny but mighty team gathered over $600K in financial and in-kind donation support. We welcomed 34 participants to the Sky High Farm Universe Marketplace: brands, designers, and other creative powerhouses who are aligned with our values of using commerce to foster social change. We launched 8 special collaborations — official Spring Picnic merch with Champion, Nike, The North Face, JanSport, Parley for the Oceans, REVERB, BIRKENSTOCK, Levi's, and more. Read a write-up in Vogue (with photos by the talented alex hodor-lee) at the link below. https://lnkd.in/edfV6hnX
Sky High Farm Universe
Retail
New York, New York 903 followers
A mission-led brand built as a means of sustaining and expanding the work of the non-profit, Sky High Farm.
About us
Sky High Farm Universe, founded by Dan Colen and Daphne Seybold in January 2022, is a mission-led brand built as a means of sustaining and expanding the work of Sky High Farm. While activating consumer culture in pursuit of a more just food system, we also model a corporate structure that inverts the traditional wealth hierarchy. Sky High Farm Universe flips the script by prioritizing those who need the funds most: 50% of the brand's profits will be donated to Sky High Farm each year; the remaining profits will be distributed next to employees, the community of the farm, and finally to investors. Additionally, we created an entirely new method for modeling the systemic change we want to see in our industry: through our Wholesale Donation Program (WDP), all of our 70+ retail partners (including DSM, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Nordstrom) are required to make an up-front donation to the farm before selling a single item, transforming all of their customers into the farm’s donors. In its first 20 months, the brand has donated over $500K to Sky High Farm through the WDP. Our seasonal apparel collection, Sky High Farm Workwear, was created in partnership with Dover Street Market via their DSM Paris brand development department; they manufacture, sell and distribute the collection. The creative collective that fuels the brand grows and shifts with each collection, but is consistently tied together by Dan Colen, the brand’s Chief Creative Officer. Collaborators past and present have included visionary individuals and brands such as Comme des Garçons SHIRT, Balenciaga, Converse, Dickies, Denim Tears, Alastair McKimm, Mel Ottenberg, Samira Nasr, Heidi Bivens, Nadia Lee Cohen and Quil Lemons (also a Contributing Artistic Director). In April 2023, together with FedUp Foods, we launched Sky High Farm Honey Pop, a sparkling water with gut health properties and nutritional value (probiotics and prebiotics from water kefir; 9g of fiber (33% daily need); organic; vegetarian; kosher)
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- Retail
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- 2-10 employees
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- New York, New York
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- Privately Held
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- 2022
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Thank you to our friends at FUTUREVVORLD — Daniel Navarro and Rachel Wang — for anointing our sneakers as one of the most sustainable this month 🌜🍓 Our newest collaboration in our ongoing partnership with Converse, the Chuck 70s and One Star Pros are now reimagined with a workwear bent. Embracing the regenerative spirit of Sky High Farm, the uppers on these shoes are individually crafted from repurposed work pants and overalls. Each pair is one of a kind. Our collaboration with Converse launched in 2022 with the birth of Sky High Farm Universe — since then, they've been one of our biggest supporters (thank you jon roy, Tyler Fonda, and Jessica Scanlon!). With every pair sold, customers are walking the walk by directly supporting Sky High Farm, a nonprofit championing food sovereignty, ensuring everyone has access to fresh, nutritious produce.
The Best New Earth-Friendlier Footwear, June 2024
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Sky High Farm Universe is one of the greatest projects we have ever seen! Imagine a farm in upstate New York, donating 100% of all products to those who have no access to fresh and healthy food. It’s also an education platform for regenerative farming practices and - last not least - a brand with some of the coolest products and collaborations: skyhighfarmuniverse.com We just returned from The Sustainable Angle's «Future Fabrics Expo» in London, where we presented the starting point of this incredible cooperation: Workwear made with Bananatex®, dyed with Nature Coatings, featuring other world class innovators TômTex Co. and Ponda Bio. Everything was brought together by our friend and partner Cyrill Gutsch with his amazing team at #ParleyFutureMaterial. Sky High Five to everyone, this is the right direction to go, and the journey just started! https://lnkd.in/dYvTQE5Q #madefromplants #purposeisthenewluxury #plasticfree #circulareconomy
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A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2024. We extend our deepest gratitude to our Partners, Sponsors, Speakers, Innovators, and, of course, all guests attending. Your support and participation is invaluable. Stay tuned as we highlight and deepdive into topics discussed during the Summit. #UnlockingTheNextLevel #GlobalFashionSummit Session Highlights Include: Elevating the Consumer-Citizen Role: Joycelyn Longdon, Founder, ClimateInColour, Cecilie Rosted Bahnsen, Founder and Creative Director, Cecilie Bahnsen, Eshita Kabra, CEO & Founder, By Rotation, Daphne Seybold, Co-Founder, Co-CEO & CMO Sky High Farm Universe, Shona Barton Quinn, Sr Director, Social Consciousness, EILEEN FISHER, INC. Navjot Sawhney, Founder, The Washing Machine Project. When Skills and Stories Combine: Adeju Thompson, Founder, Lagos Space Programme Omoyemi Akerele, Founder and CEO, Lagos Fashion Week and Style House Files Modelling a Different Path: Emily Chan, Senior Sustainability & Features Editor, British Vogue, Vanessa Barboni Hallik, Founder & CEO, Another Tomorrow Reshape, Rethink: Innovating Data: Muchaneta ten Napel, Founder & CEO Shape Innovate, Scott Raskin, CEO, Worldly, Jeremy Lardeau, Senior Vice President, Higg Index, Cascale, atnyel guedj, Chief Product Officer, Made2Flow Luxury, Leather and Land: Aditi Mayer, Visual Storyteller & Climate Activist, Geraldine Vallejo, Sustainability Programme Director, Kering, Emma Hakansson, Founding Director, Collective Fashion Justice, Jeff Smith, Senior VP, Modern Meadow, Shaway Yeh, Founder, yehyehyeh
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"We believe that the most sustainable products are the ones that already exist." – Our Co-CEO and CMO Daphne Seybold Last week, our Co-CEO and CMO Daphne Seybold traveled to Copenhagen for the 15th annual Global Fashion Summit, hosted by Global Fashion Agenda, to chat sustainability and the role of the consumer-citizen. Thank you WWD for highlighting the panel in today's issue 🌜🍓
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"The day began with a performance by American Ballet Theatre dancer Devon Teuscher, followed by sets from DJ Michaël Brun, singers Kelsey Lu and Moses Sumney, and, for the finale, Grammy-winning band the Roots. As afternoon turns to evening, picnicgoers trade the mingling for lounging, and Sumney hits the stage, his smooth voice the only thing you can hear." —Brooke LaMantia New York Magazine and The Cut featured the Sky High Farm Spring Picnic ❤️ Thank you to Lindsay Peoples, Joanna Nikas, OK McCausland, Noelle Lacombe, MBA, and everyone who worked on this piece! Read below 👇 https://lnkd.in/esia5Bd9
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Speechless! We woke up on Sunday to find our brand on the front page of the The New York Times Styles 💫 We started this brand solely to galvanize support for the nonprofit Sky High Farm. In just two years, we've generated a donation of $690K across a diversity of industries and special projects (Every Customer is a Donor!). It’s incredible to commemorate this moment with Times and we are so grateful to Stella Bugbee, Jessica Iredale, alex hodor-lee, and Sophie Butcher for giving us the space to share our story. 🚀✨ We want to acknowledge all the people who made this moment possible: SHFU’s Co-CEOs, Daphne Seybold and Dan Colen, and team members Ben Gilberg, Eileen Huang, Ethan Stiles, Grant Lurie, Jake Booth, Matthew Friedman, Nicole Johnson, MBA, Patrick McCarthy, Sidney Munch, and Soba Eshima. So much love as well to SHF Co-Executive Directors Joshua Bardfield, MPH, and Sarah Workneh, as well as Ellie Youngblood, Phil Haynes, Julie Miller, Nina Tucker, Deborah, and Nick Tyre who inspire us every day with their work. Our mission to build equity in the food system is powered by the creative largesse of so many: so much love to Al, Quil, Ryan, Jon, James, Tata, Eri, Samira, Mel, Heidi and all the folks who have made this work possible (you know who you are!) ❤️ It truly takes a village — thank you all for the love and support 🌜 🍓
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FEED YOUR NEIGHBOR, FOOD IS POWER. The Sky High Farm Spring Picnic is on Saturday, May 18th, 2024 at the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, NY from 2-6pm featuring a special performances from The Roots and DJ set from Michaël Brun. Join us upstate for an afternoon of music and nourishment to support the work of Sky High Farm 501(c)3, a non-profit dedicated to building equity in our food system. Visit SkyHighFarm.org to purchase tickets. ALL PROCEEDS from this event will go to Sky High Farm 501(c)3.
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Co-CEO and CMO Daphne Seybold will be a featured speaker at the annual Global Fashion Summit, hosted by Global Fashion Agenda in Copenhagen, May 22nd-23rd, 2024 🌟♻️ Since its inception in 2009, the Global Fashion Summit has convened major decision-makers from across the fashion ecosystem, becoming the nexus for agenda-setting discussions and meetings on the most critical environmental, social, and ethical issues facing our industry and planet. In the past, the Summit has hosted speakers from LVMH, Patagonia, United Nations, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) — all of whom intend to spark urgent action and accelerate impact in the fashion industry. We're honored to participate at this seminal conference alongside industry pioneers: C-suite level executives, fashion writers focused on sustainability, leaders in the public sectors, and more. Learn more about the Summit at the link below 👇
Global Fashion Summit | Global Fashion Summit
https://globalfashionsummit.com