Cobbled Goods is a new platform for footwear alternatives to big business. They make thoughtful choices simple by unearthing and carefully curating small, independent brands that follow slow fashion principles. Their vision is to build a platform cooperative that helps decentralise and slow down the footwear industry by shifting power away from the dominant extractive models of big business and venture capital fuelled startups.
Ariel FabbroAriel studied Global Studies at Vancouver Island University and Sustainability Management at University of Toronto before entering the corporate sustainability world. For the last 7 years, he has supported corporate sustainability teams at some of the world's largest companies. With a firsthand view inside big business it became clear they are unfit to address the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. This is his inspiration for working from the bottom up to build alternatives through collective power.