However, the guitar octaves and lead in “Mindcrime” add a depth to the song that elevates above others on the full-length. As the song moves into the choruses, the choppy guitar work picks up again. “Mindcrime” is another standout on the LP, opening with similarly strong guitars and a fast pounding bass line. There’s a pain in the lyrics, and delivered with precision vocally, that transcend the anger and ferocity so typical to vocals in hardcore bands. The lyrical content on this song is both personal and socio-political, as it chronicles a young person being profiled by police while simply trying to make it to class. This is generally indicative of much of the guitar work on the album at large too. The album leads with a great opening track in “11:13.” The guitar work in the song shifts between fast grooving riffs and choppy start-stop licks. They’ve put out a slew of shorter releases prior, and with this full-length Regulate seeks to expand both their sound and their song-writing capabilities. So, ultimately, in order to move the needle, the policy has to change to enable change.In the Promise of Another Tomorrow is Regulate’s first LP. “But I really do think it’s a systemic, complex problem, and voluntarily actions will never be enough. “I think we really do need to have a reset culturally in terms of our relationship with clothing, and fundamentally, it needs to become not cool to buy disposable fashion and to wear something new every day,” she says. Another Tomorrow also uses its platform to raise awareness about various sustainability initiatives, which Barboni Hallik believes is helpful as it becomes more and more policy-driven.Īs she thinks about the future of sustainability in fashion, however, the founder believes that the entire system needs to change. “I like to think about clothing as an asset, and in order for it to be an asset, it needs to retain its value, meaning it must be timeless and relevant but also of a quality that will last generations, so we address it first and foremost by making clothes that are just that,” the founder explains. Photography courtesy of Another Tomorrow.īut it’s also important to the brand that it’s doing everything it can to combat fashion’s colossal waste problem, whereby millions of unsold items are destroyed or disposed of every year. A model wears Another Tomorrow Spring Summer 2022. “We have traceability back to and relationships with the farms we work with and then we built it all the way up to make sure we account for the way everything is used and that everyone is paid a living wage,” Barboni Hallik says. With a focus on building a connection to the source, Another Tomorrow is all about transparency, and the founder believes that establishing a relationship with consumers rests upon their having complete knowledge of the brand, from the origin of its materials to its water and energy usages. I saw a huge amount of power in bridging that gap.” “But at the end of the day, we’re going to continue to buy clothes yet the way we do so almost never matches our values. “I did have this conflict of feeling like we put way too much product out into the world and then here I am starting a brand that’s going to create more product,” Barboni Hallik admits. In the early days of 2020, she began Another Tomorrow, a sustainable luxury clothing brand that uses fashion as a vehicle for activism. “It felt like the world’s best kept secret and the more I learned, the more shocked I was.” Although she had never previously thought about starting a fashion brand, she felt an enormous pull to do exactly that, ecologically, and to fill an underserved part of the market.

“I was so unaware of how incredibly impactful the fashion industry is-and not just on the environmental side but on the human welfare and animal welfare sides as well,” Barboni Hallik explains.

With plans to break into sustainable finance, she took a sabbatical from her role at Morgan Stanley, but as she delved into various industries and explored their environmental effects, one space in particular stood out: fashion.

“I decided my career needed to be about life and purpose and about creating an alignment between where I was and where I thought the world needed to go,” she recalls. In 2017, Barboni Hallik felt it was time to put her money where her mouth is and become a part of the climate change solution. Since then, she has carried this early exposure to environmentalism with her as she forged a career in emerging markets. The financier-turned-fashion founder grew up flipping through issues of Whole Earth Catalog and learning about the slow food movement, thanks to her childhood in “hippie, academic college town” Grinnell, Iowa. For Vanessa Barboni Hallik, sustainability has always been second nature.

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