Sustainable manufacturing – The blunt side of the Cheap Needle.

I came to Finisterre after working as a fashion designer for 5 years in large high street brands. I left the world of fast fashion behind, because I was frustrated at what I saw was an abuse of power, screwing suppliers over for margin gain and throw-away trends. I felt sure things could be done differently. I came to Finisterre with my own ideas about how apparel could move towards a sustainable future and my ideas were matched by passionate individuals, who shared the same desire... Read More

travel done beautifully

Everything started for Millican back in the early 90′s, on the boarder of Ecuador and Peru. Two people took some time off to rediscover what they loved – the great outdoors, the environment, exploring, vintage travel items and just slowing life down a bit – finding some pace. So in the summer 2008, with help from friends and a belly full of ideas, they created Millican and a year later their first range of organic canvas rucksacks, shoulder bags, overnight bags,... Read More

Take a chance…

We all took little steps a long time ago, with the end goal of walking. We’d all fall down, maybe shed a tear and then get up and take another chance. The older we get, it’s easier not to chance things as much, maybe its comfort, maybe it’s because the fall is greater, however way you look at it, we could all roll the dice a bit more. Georgia likes chancing it, she’s got a small business, where she brings old deck chairs back to life and it’s all... Read More

Just Doing it!!!!!

I asked Tim to put a little something together about why he does what he does. Tim Bonython documents some of the biggest waves in the world and then turns them into videos and we’re loving them. It’s a relationship that’s been growing over the past couple of months, although we haven’t met (and we will), I like him, I like the sound of him, he seems to be the type of guy that’s always smiling. He’s put a little something together below and has... Read More

Screwing Business…

Screwing Business as Usual. I was interviewed for Richard Branson’s book (‘Screw Business as Usual’) some time ago, although not by him. The idea behind the book was to look into how business owners could or were already putting the ‘triple bottom line’ (social, environmental and financial) at the heart of their businesses. To get the founders take on how they felt they could screw conventional business ideas. In many ways, I started Finisterre with more of an idea... Read More

getting lost

We don’t like to use his name and he doesn’t like when we do, kind of annoying – but who really cares, because the guy is bloody rad. He’s a pioneer of ours, he goes on some epic trips all over the world, sails, eats fruit and charges when it gets big. He sent us another video, I did a bit of dreaming for a couple minutes whilst watching it and then got back to work – enjoy it! Mr M (oops, see what I did there), I send you so much love, always xxx... Read More

a competition…

Diana Barnato Walker was one of 168 female members, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), during World War 2. She was a socialite, she apparently partied hard and she delivered Spitfires, by flying them to specific locations throughout World War 2. Is is said, that she would reapply her lipstick, before exiting her plane – this is rock and roll. The 21st century is filled with some pretty rad ladies and luckily enough, we happen to know one of them – directly,... Read More

Get busy living

We see stuff all the time, whether it be a picture, a film, a person or a thing. Sometimes we see them and we forget about them and sometimes we see them and act on them. We got in touch with Andrew, we loved this short, it just made us feel good, it reminded us to get busy living! Cheers Andrew, super rad!  Read More