Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeff Garner.
Jeff, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I began designing for bands out of Nashville, TN where I grew up on a horse farm. I left TN at age 17 and came to Malibu where I attended Pepperdine University and worked in the music industry primarily with Barry Manilow and became the creative Director of Stiletto Entertainment.
After traveling the world gaining experience in design and manufacturing, I left Stiletto and started Prophetik. I wanted to create a brand with vision beyond commerce. Prophetik focuses on sustainable solutions in the fashion world using natural fabrications and plant-based dyes.
Has it been a smooth road?
As a designer using only natural fabrications and non-toxic plant-based dyes limits your choices. Also, it is a “true” price versus toxic synthetics that are cheaply made so everything I create is often much more expensive. It is hard to educate consumers on why sustainable fashion is more expensive when they are addicted to cheap fashion. The fashion industry is already fickle and full of smoke and mirrors with heavy emphasis on marketing and celebrity appeal versus art and design. I believe in today’s environment consumers seek more authentic design and artistry. It is a shame when art becomes commerce how it is influenced by trend versus a visionary designer. I also lost my mom to breast cancer which sparked my focus on designing sustainable boxers and bras for close friends and family called Wolf & Rose. The toxins found in bras and synthetic boxers are carcinogenic and have linkage to breast and prostate cancer. The idea is to keep exposure to as minimal as possible to keep bioaccumulation down.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
Prophetik specializes in sustainable design and creating solutions for the industry. This past year we won an Emmy for best documentary in Art on Sustainable Fashion design. I also was nominated into the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery for top 40 artist in the US and the TN State Museum.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
Malibu or West LA is good for connecting with other artists and inspires the creative spirit and has respect for a sustainable lifestyle.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.prophetik.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @prophetik
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.garner.311
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