Abbott began with scarves. Making fewer things was never the whole answer. The corporations behind fast fashion also fuel wars, displace people, exploit workers, and pollute land. We built the Directory to make those links visible.
It gathers research that’s usually scattered—reports, filings, campaigns—and puts it in one place. It shows who profits and gives people tools to refuse.
One person’s spending doesn’t topple a multinational. But collective refusal has shifted policies, collapsed markets, and forced change before.
As a small business we live inside these same systems. The Directory is one way we use our work to push back—by showing who profits and where refusal has weight. Every dollar kept out of multinationals strengthens what is built close to home and keeps value in the hands of independent makers, growers, and shops.
