ANGEL CHANG
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We use traditional craftsmanship to create and envision a carbon free future.
ANGEL CHANG is a zero carbon womenswear line handmade by indigenous mountains tribes in rural China according to ancient techniques that follow the cycles of nature.
07/31/2024
06/01/2023
Imagine if you were all alone in nature and had nothing but the forest around you. This is how we made our clothes.
Ancient couture. Nature couture. Farmer couture. These are words that came to mind while making these pieces.
Each piece is cut and sewn entirely by hand like Haute Couture — but from raw plant materials grown on the land or foraged from the surrounding mountain forest.
When the fabric is hand-spun and handwoven like in the past, it becomes Ancient Couture.
When the cotton and silk is grown by small family farms,
it becomes Farmer Couture.
When it is uses only what is grown or found in the forest,
it becomes Nature Couture.
Which one do you prefer?
This is how clothing was made historically — before the Industrial Revolution — when all clothing was made in a sustainable and zero carbon way.
No chemical dyes
No plastics
No electricity
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Photo: Boe Marion
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05/31/2023
Hand-weaving fabric has existed for the past 20,000 years since the Paleolithic Era.
Making clothing is the only basic human need (food, water, clothing, sleep, shelter) that nature does not provide in its own. It requires us to craft it with our own bare hands.
Our ancestors turned plants and animal fibers into clothing and passed the knowledge down to each generation.
But in the past century, we have become so dependent on electricity that we no longer know how to live without it, We have given our creative human power over to machines and factories, at the expense of our own creative empowerment.
It is human to create with our hands, and doing so calms our minds and nourishes our spirit. Hand-craftsmanship is at its core a basic human survival skill — not just for making useful things, but also for our wellness.
Let’s bring back this forgotten skill and learn how to weave fabric again!
Photo: Boe Marion
05/17/2023
We make clothing the way it was made 200 years ago before the Industrial Revolution. The garments are 100% made entirely by hand, from native seed cotton grown organically by small farmers. The cotton is hand-spun into yarn, hand-woven into fabric, hand-dyed using plants foraged from the forest, and hand-sewn together. Even the buttons and button-holes are made by hand. The clothes never touch a machine and are made without the use of electricity.
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Wearing them is like stepping back in time to slower, simpler times when clothing was all-natural and artisanal.
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After all, clothing was historically made in a sustainable way. It’s only in the past 200 years that the invention of synthetic textiles, chemical dyes, and mass production methods has made it so polluting today.
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Our clothing is chemical-free and zero carbon by default. It is the most environmentally sustainable way of making clothing today. It is a tradition that was forgotten and must now go back and relearn.
01/03/2023
Join us this week for our poolside pop-up at THE COLONY HOTEL in Palm Beach, Florida. Bring your friends and say hello!
January 1st - 5th
Everyday until 10pm
Thank you for the fun opportunity to start the new year!
09/16/2022
Thank you for featuring us in today’s story on sustainable innovators!
So honored to be included with fellow NYC designers showing the industry how we can design with less impact on the environment. The fashion industry may seem massive, but together with our collective voices we can show the industry that it is possible to change.
09/15/2022
Thank you Vogue Business and Bella Webb for featuring us in today’s story on sustainable innovators!
So honored to be included with fellow NYC designers showing the industry how we can design with less impact on the environment. The fashion industry may seem massive, but together with our collective voices we can show the industry that it is possible to change.
09/14/2022
We had a fashion show! After 10 years of development, we presented the ANGEL CHANG Spring/Summer 2023 collection at Pace Gallery during New York Fashion Week.
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This zero-carbon collection was made without electricity, seed-to-button, entirely by hand using only plants that could be grown on land or foraged from the mountain forest. Each piece took 5-6 months to make because it followed the cycles of nature and never touched a machine.
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THANK YOU for believing in me, and joining me on this crazy wild ride. 🙏❤️ It was amazing working together!!!
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07/24/2021
Our sewers sign their name, size, and date finished for each piece for ANGEL CHANG. We started this during Covid when we suddenly had to do production remotely, and I had to track who to pay for each piece. Here Zhi Zhi, our production manager, is finishing up her shirt before she writes her tag.
This past year, the sewers learned to self-organize like a co-op — teaching each other how to sew instead of me flying there from New York to China every 4 weeks to re-train them. The constant international flying and jet-lag was impacting my health, so I was happy to isolate at home for 2020. The previous year, I had flown enough to circle the planet 6 times! Not to mention the guilt of my own personal carbon footprint…
After 3 years of training how to hand-sew my pieces (which started from a grant from the Smithsonian and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center), they are finally self-sufficient and can sew the entire collection by themselves now. They have never sewn for anyone outside of their home, so this is quite an achievement!
Since I couldn’t fly to China during the pandemic, my carbon footprint dropped enormously. And we still don’t use electricity to make the clothes. So I calculated my entire brand’s carbon emissions for 2020 and just got Climate Neutral certified.
Climate Neutral helps us purchase carbon offsets to cover the shipping of the clothes from China to the US — that last piece of the supply chain that is necessary for people to actually buy and receive the clothes.
05/30/2021
Many traditional textiles designs have disappeared from the region, so it took an entire year to find grandmothers who still had the knowledge to weave this design. It was traditionally used for baby carrier straps, belts, and even face towels by the D**g people.
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We modernized it by dying the cotton with natural indigo plants and red soil from the village, and turned them into scarves and hand towels.
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That’s me visiting one of grandmothers in her home while she is weaving the fabric. It is a slow, calm process that is very therapeutic to watch.
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“Indigenous knowledge” may feel like an intimidating word, but it’s easy to understand once you see it applied in daily life. It was actually through fashion where I first understood the term.
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During my first visit to the mountain villages of Guizhou, I was astonished by how chic and stylish the Miao people looked in their traditional costumes. They seemed to dress better than Chinese people I saw living in the big cities, despite being called “backwards” and living in the poorest province of China.
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Their sophisticated eye for color surprised me, like using bright orange 🍊 embroidery on indigo-dyed fabric shirt 👕 — which we designers know are complementary colors and brings out the richness in the blue color. 🧵
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This same eye for aesthetics was visible in other ethnic minorities across China that I met (like the Tibetans, Mongolians, and D**g). I learned that this skill for colors and style was passed down from one generation to the next and could be considered indigenous knowledge.
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This opened my eyes to learning more about their traditional ways — like how natural plants are used for dyeing + medicine, to what they eat, how they build their homes, and how they view the world. All of this is part of indigenous knowledge.
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One could say indigenous knowledge is the library of how all humans around the world once lived with nature. While we have collectively forgotten it over time, re-learning it will teach us how to live sustainability. It will help us live in balance with nature once again.
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Check out my podcast interview at www.timesensitive.fm
sensitive .tv
“Indigenous knowledge” may feel like an intimidating word, but it’s easy to understand once you see it applied in daily life. It was through fashion where I first understood what it means. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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During my first visit to the mountain villages of Guizhou, I was astonished by how chic and stylish the Miao people looked in their traditional costumes. They seemed to dress better than people in the big cities, despite being called “backwards” and living in the poorest province of China. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Their sophisticated eye for color surprised me, like using bright orange 🍊 embroidery on indigo-dyed fabric shirt 👕 — which we designers know are complementary colors and brings out the richness in the blue color. 🧵 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This same eye for aesthetics was visible in other ethnic minorities across China that I met (like the Tibetans, Mongolians, and D**g). I learned that this skill for coordinating colors and style was passed down from one generation to the next and could be considered indigenous knowledge. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This opened my eyes to learning more about their traditional ways — like how natural plants are used for dyeing and their medicinal properties, to what they eat, how they build their homes, and how they view the world. All of this is part of indigenous knowledge. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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One could say indigenous knowledge is the library of how all humans once lived with nature. While we have globally forgotten it over time, re-learning it will help us live in balance with nature once again. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Check out my podcast interview .tv
05/14/2021
Thank you Emily Farra for taking the time to write this wonderful article for Vogue!
Emily was my first apartment guest after 1 year of the pandemic! It really felt like history in the making. And showing the collection in-person again (instead of on Zoom) was like an entirely new experience.
The richness of this article reflects the experience of touching the clothing and being interviewed in real life. I’m so grateful for Emily for risking her health pre-vaccine in the name of sustainable fashion ❤️❤️
Looking forward to post-pandemic life where we can bring back tactility 💆🏻♀️ and the magic of human connection again.✨✨✨
Angel Chang’s New Line Was Made With No Electricity, Synthetics, or Chemicals—Just “Sun, Plants, and Mountain Water” Angel Chang partnered with artisans in rural China to create an elegant, calming collection of hand-sewn dresses and separates that are 100% organic, electricity-free, and botanical-dyed.
05/13/2021
In 2017, I created a TED-ed lesson for called “The Lifecycle of a T-shirt.” I learned how polluting the average cotton t-shirt was and felt very depressed as a result.
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As a reaction, I created the ANGEL CHANG Anti-T as the opposite of the average cotton t-shirt. It is made from hand-spun native-seen organic cotton we grow on the land, then hand-woven on wooden looms into soft fabric. We sew it entirely by hand.
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No electricity is used because we make clothes in the exact same way it was made 200 years ago — before electricity was invented!
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Since stretch fabric does not exist in nature, I left the back open to make it a comfortable fit. (Spandex used in conventional t-shirts and stretch jeans is made from petroleum/fossil fuels.)
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See how our Anti-T compares with the average t-shirt:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Carbon footprint (cradle to gate): ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
ANGEL CHANG shirt = 0.4 kg of CO2e
Average cotton t-shirt = 2.1 kg of CO2e⠀
Avg polyester t-shirt = 5.5 kg of CO2e⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Electricity used: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
ANGEL CHANG shirt = none ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 1.808kWh⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Chemical pesticides used: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
ANGEL CHANG shirt = none ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 0.3 lbs⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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ANGEL CHANG shirt = 12 liters + rainfall ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 2700 liters⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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ANGEL CHANG shirt = 30 miles⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 4500 mile⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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05/13/2021
An artisan is twisting hand-spun silk embroidery thread that we use for stitching our clothes and labels.
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Despite having invented sericulture in 3000 BC, traditional silk production inside one's homes has nearly disappeared across rural China - and replaced with industrial production in big cities.
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In Guizhou province, Miao ethnic minority grandmothers still follow this ancient practice inside their homes. Silk worms are raised on bamboo baskets between April to June when the fresh leaves of the mulberry trees can be fed to the worms.
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The silk worms are referred to as "girls" using the feminine pronoun, and treated as part of the family. For example, when a guest arrives, it is an insult if they comment negatively on how the silk worms are growing. They are supposed to say, "your girls are looking great!"
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Here is Master Yang, a silk-weaving master who makes our hand-spun silk yarn, and the handwoven silk labels on our clothing. She is wearing the traditional costume of her people that she made by herself all from scratch: growing the silk worms, spinning the yarn, dyeing it red, weaving it into fabric, and sewing it into clothes.
04/22/2021
Happy Earth Day! 🌎 Climate change is impacting all of us, and we need to take action now. That’s why we’ve committed to becoming Climate Neutral Certified. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This spring, we’ll be working with , an independent non-profit organization, to measure our 2020 carbon footprint, offset it in its entirety by purchasing quality carbon credits, and reduce our emissions moving forward. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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As you see, the only sewing machine we use is powered by foot-pedal — no electricity or fossil fuel energy needed to make our clothes! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It’s just one step in our sustainability journey, but if every company joins, we can tackle
03/26/2021
The ANGEL CHANG Anti-T was created as a response to my TED-ed video "Lifecycle of a T-Shirt" where I followed the environmental impact of the average cotton t-shirt.
See how an ANGEL CHANG shirt compares with the average t-shirt:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Carbon footprint (cradle to gate): ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
ANGEL CHANG shirt = 0.4 kg of CO2e
Average cotton t-shirt = 2.1 kg of CO2e⠀
Avg polyester t-shirt = 5.5 kg of CO2e⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Electricity used: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
ANGEL CHANG shirt = none ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 1.808kWh⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Chemical pesticides used: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
ANGEL CHANG shirt = none ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 0.3 lbs⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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ANGEL CHANG shirt = 12 liters + rainfall ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 2700 liters⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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ANGEL CHANG shirt = 30 miles⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Average cotton t-shirt = 4500 mile⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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