"LA’s Fashion District experiences over $10 billion in annual business and 30,000+ jobs...", boasts the district website! In this era of online shopping, cheap imports and drop shipping, we at Caravan Maya decided to check it out for ourselves...
Mavis Carolina Herrera: We are proud to not just mention but write about her journey and the Social and Community Impact her now company has had to the community that she represents. In addition, her recycling of plastics for construction of the bags but also the earnings for the skilled weavers and her intent and leadership to provide children in indigenous communities with shoes!
Kantha is a centuries-old tradition of stitching patchwork cloth from rags, which evolved from the thrift of rural women in the Bengali region of the sub-continent - today the eastern Indian states of West Bengal and Orissa, and Bangladesh. One of the oldest forms of embroidery originating from India, its origins can be traced back to the pre-Vedic age (prior to 1500 BCE).
As a consciousbusiness, CaravanMaya isaware of our mistakes fromthe past. We strongly believe negative Social and/Or Environmental footprint of what we procure and what you may eventually purchase; gives second (or third, or fourth!) life.
Footwear for Fall, Exchanged with Warm Linings for Winter. Launching a Circular Fashion for some of our Fall and Winter product lines is awesome. You can purchase Footwear for Fall and return it for a Warmer lined Winter Product!
Caravanmaya has curated ourLookBook Collections, products as seen can be purchased individually or they can be bundled and shipped via Consolidated Shipping. You get substantial discounts on each item but as a bundle they also reduce Carbon Footprint by about 1/3 a third!