A fun and welcoming space to share the items you love with the people who get it.
Whether you run or belong to a group of slow fashion lovers, new parents on the hunt for affordable baby clothes, or outdoor gear fanatics, Isthmus is the easy and fun place to share your favorite things with your favorite groups.
Meet some of the groups already on the waitlist.
Members and leaders of top fashion advocacy and buy, sell, and trade groups are testing and advocating for Isthmus.
Extinction Rebellion Fashion Action
The fashion arm of the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion.
Remake.World
A global nonprofit igniting a conscious consumer movement to turn fashion into a force for good.
Patagonia B/S/T
The largest community for buying, selling, and trading Patagonia. Not affiliated with the Patagonia brand.
Come for the clothes.
Stay for the community.
Never have to shop again.
For Group Members
We built Isthmus for groups to connect and easily share items—that’s it.
No more logging on to a giant social network, navigating through hundreds of features, ads, and posts to find the items you want.
Join one (or two..or three!). Get access to exclusive group content, events, and discussions.
Forget the messy feeds and nonstop scrolling.
For Group Members
Celebrate the stories behind the clothes.
As people swap and relist multiple times you start to see a
story behind the items. Check out item memories, outfit
recommendations, a list of people who have worn it in the
past, and item wishlists. Think of it as your own version of a
sisterhood of traveling pants.
Let's value the
stories and communities behind the clothes over buying
new.
For Group Creators/Moderators
Give your group an easy way to say thanks via monthly payment.
Some groups are highly curated, have exclusive content and
events, and more, thanks to community moderators like you. For
your work fostering these communities, you can set monthly
membership fees.
Members pay right through the
app. No longer ask members to pay an optional donation fee or
have a disjointed way for them to support the work you do.
MEET The Communities
Groups already trading
SellTradeSlowFashion
SellTradeSlowFasion (STSF) is a group of 24,000+ that celebrates the gold standards of ethical and ethical fashion with a strong focus on community. They are testing Isthmus for trading items between community members.
Extinction Rebellion Fashion Action
XR Fashion Action is a grassroots climate justice organization, a branch of Extinction Rebellion (XR). They engage in Non-Violent Civil Disobedience to dismantle the toxic fashion industry and also promote an alternative way of doing fashion e.g re-wearing. They are testing a group to share mending/repair events and swap amongst organization members and others who want to learn more and take part.
WE CAN'T WAIT TO HELP YOU CONNECT MORE AND CONSUME LESS
Meet the founders
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Carley Lake
Co-Founder & CEO
I’m Carley. I've been told I have the style of a “grandma
mixed with a middle schooler on her first day of school". I’m
the founder and editor of the sustainable fashion site
Thoughtfulflamingo.com, named one of Eluxe M agazine’s 11 eco-friendly bloggers to
follow.
I was acting Global Marketing Director for
Safety at Uber and co-launched Uber Eats. (Fun fact: it was
first named Uber Fresh.)
Tanya Dastyar
Co-Founder & CTO
I’m Tanya. I’m a maker at heart: whether it’s through design,
coding, jewelry making, or any other way to get my hands
dirty. My personal mission is to reinforce the things that
really matter in life, like community and relationships. I’m
excited to be challenging the status quo of overconsumption in
an effort to bring a little magic back to our stuff.
I
led product for Microsoft News and Microsoft Managed Desktop
and co-founded Lighthouse, a tracking solution for students
with Autism, alerting faculty when they physically wander.
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Join the movement to buy and waste less.
The fashion industry has a waste problem, an environmental problem, a labor practices problem, and a makes-us-spend-way-too-much-money-on-things-we-don’t-wear problem.
Trading and sharing items reduces waste, environmental
destruction, how much we spend, and more.
We have a waste problem.
Each year, 200 million pounds of clothing ends up in the New York City’s landfill sites—the equivalent of filling the Statue of Liberty with garments 440 times.
We have a climate and energy problem.
Approximately 82 million metric tons of greenhouse gas admissions come from textiles and leather. And it takes approximately 450 liters of water to make 1 t-shirt. That’s more than 2 years worth of drinking water for one person.
We believe in a world with:
Less consumption. More sharing.
Less feeling alone. More genuine conversation.
Less waste. More re-wear and re-love.
Less money spent. More fun had.
Come for the clothes, stay for the community, never have to shop again.
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