My name is Mirta Evi and I live in Ecuador. I’m a singer, artist and sustainable materials fashion designer. I founded my company, The Andes Fashion® in 2011. We are an eco-luxury panama hats, shoes, scarves, jewellery and accessories brand, entirely conceived and handmade with our artisan’s workshops located in different cities and small towns of Ecuador: Illumán, Santo Domingo, Quito, and Cuenca. Our headquarters and studio is based in San Rafael Valley, near to the Capital, Quito; with offices in Scottsdale, AZ, USA. Since the beginning, The Andes Fashion® works with local artisans, artists and companies which also follows the same ethical treatment to people and animals.
Our company works practicing the rules of the Fair Trade Federation. We collaborate in projects with international NGO's, UNDP (United Nations Development Program) and with many brands around the world. Our company was the leading design team for an international collaboration between UNDP JAPAN, UNDP ECUADOR, MUJI JAPAN and the WAORANI ethnia from Yasuni area.
Our company developed successfully some products for KURASHISA and MUJI Stores Japan, with the Waorani Women Association. This kind of projects offer new opportunities to our people in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador; also, they learn how to work in better conditions, to do quality control, to have a better use of the time and materials preparation, in two words, is giving them a BETTER LIFESTYLE.