About Us -

Here’s the most important thing you need to know: we’re more than just a design company. We are invested in style that is conscious, chic, and functional. We help connect you to products that you can feel good about. Your purchase always directly supports small businesses to realize their full growth potential.

ZERO-WASTE PATCHWORK COLLECTIONS: 100% pre-consumer zero-waste sustainable design

The patchwork metaphor: Everything is a delicate balance of small pieces that work together towards one whole. Individual pieces are important on their own, but when they join the group they rise to their potential. If there is one patch missing, the community falls apart. Everything has a purpose, there is “zero waste”.

When cutting fabric, the most efficient pattern layout is planned so that every inch of fabric is utilized appropriately for least waste possible. Remnant material is then used down to the smallest scraps for patchwork designs. Peaceful Fashions’ Patchwork Collections are one-of-a-kind custom orders. Patchworks are a combination of traditional quilt blocks with a contemporary, organic approach.

Our team is driven by sustainability. Enjoy our curated inventory of designs that celebrates life & love.

Our Promise

We believe in a future of sharing and caring. A future filled with peaceful fashions, if you will. We believe in ethical business practices, maintaining superior quality and providing a knowledge-based shopping experience. Products offered through Peaceful Fashions help create a better economy and more promising future. We are committed to maintaining environmentally conscious principles and sustainable business practices. One way we achieve this is through “zero-waste” design, the philosophy that waste is actually a valuable resource.

Our History

Peaceful Fashions is an independent fashion design company founded in 2010 under the creative direction of owner, Nellie Theroux. Nellie earned a degree in Fashion Design and Production from Lasell University and worked for 10 years as an upholstery seamstress and also spent a year working on an Air Force base as a tailor.

Highlighted Artists

Peaceful Fashions combines different elements like color, pattern and texture to create original pieces of wearable art. Inspiration is pulled from nature, art and all things of beauty that abound. Each piece is a unique, one-of-a-kind expression that possesses a positive energy of its own. All items are 100% handcrafted with love and care using environmentally friendly materials and techniques whenever possible. We take pride in offering one-of-a-kind, professionally assembled garments and accessories that are of the highest quality.

About the Owner

The dream of creating my sustainable business began in 2010 out of the corner of my living room. Peaceful Fashions was born out of my passion to create and be inventive, and desire to share what I love with the world. I enjoy expressing myself through artwork and am excited by the process of materializing a design from an idea to a functional object.

I am a seamstress by trade and by nature. I still remember my first sewing project, a pair of felt moccasins I stitched up when I was seven years old. From there I was hooked, my mom gave me my grandmother’s old sewing machine which I ran into the ground making all sorts of different things. When I was in high school, a class was offered called Fashion Design and Marketing which reinvigorated my passion for sewing and helped me realize there may be a future for me in this business. After high school, I went to to college for business but soon switched my major and began attending Lasell College for Fashion Design and Production and graduated in 2013.

When I was eighteen, I began working for a local upholstery shop as the seamstress/cutter where I strengthened my sewing and pattern-making skills. I learned new techniques and how to work with many different types fabrics. I am so inspired by the craftsmanship and design of the antique furniture we work on, and every day I learn something new. I currently work at this same upholstery shop where I now have eight years experience professionally sewing.

~Please contact us if you are interested in special orders or custom designs! We would love to work with you to get you that perfect piece!~

**e-mail: Nellie@PeacefulFashions.com**