Second Acts

I really enjoyed reading a post this morning on Closettour, a very engaging site created by a friend of a friend, who explores the wonder of 'what to wear.' (An ongoing thought for myself most of the fall and winter, considering the SoCal beach town wardrobe I moved here with...).

Jenni's post is about Edun, a fashion company that was the creation of Bono and his wife Ali Hewson to bring trade to Africa, that is relaunching at Barneys. Her perspective about the challenges of a company living its mission was refreshing, because you often don't hear about that.

"...Let me tell you, it ain’t easy. And under a microscope of that magnitude, even the tiniest effort becomes a worldwide example. If the designs were spot-on, they might have been too challenging for the factories. If the fabrics were vegetable-dyed, they might have faded in shop windows. And sometimes it seemed our orders were too big for the small factories and too small for the big ones. By the time I left Edun, to pursue a Masters Degree in Journalism, I couldn’t help feeling a little defeated..."

Second Acts in business, and especially in life, are something worth celebrating.