Fashion as a Trojan horse. Craft, climate, culture, and the rights of those who sew.
Journalist, photographer, filmmaker, sustainable fashion activist. Los Angeles. Founder of The Artisan Archive.
Aditi Mayer grew up in Los Angeles in an immigrant family from Punjab, India. Fashion was not what first drew her in; it was photography. But after the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, she began organizing in Downtown LA's garment district for the rights of women workers. In 2014, she launched her platform, using fashion as a prism to decode labor, gender, systemic racism, and the environment. A graduate of UC Irvine in international studies, literary journalism, and digital filmmaking. In 2020, a National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow, she made a documentary on farmers and textile artisans in India. She founded The Artisan Archive, a storytelling studio and social impact agency.
