{"id":66231,"date":"2022-10-14T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=66231"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:58:31","slug":"amanda-hearst-dishes-nonprofit-company-passion","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/amanda-hearst-dishes-nonprofit-company-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Hearst Is Proving You Can Do What You Love As She Turned Her Passion Into Two Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every issue, GRAZIA USA highlights Game Changers, who inspire, educate, and celebrate individuality, beauty, and style. Meet Amanda Hearst, a tastemaker who<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0turned her passion for promoting sustainable fashion and helping animals into two jobs \u2014 and she\u2019s making a change in both worlds.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I started working around 2008 at Marie Claire<\/em>, and while there I became interested in sustainable fashion. I ended up writing a monthly column called \u201cGood Fashion,\u201d which focused on my favorite brands and the sustainable fashion space, including the movements and trends that were happening. It wasn\u2019t a super-hot topic at the time, and it\u2019s definitely been a journey from there.<\/p>\n

While working at the magazine, I met my partner, Hassan Pierre<\/strong>, who had his own sustainable fashion brand. We ended up doing some sustainable fashion pop-ups together, which eventually became our brand, Maison de Mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We started doing these one-off pop-ups around America \u2014 from Washington, D.C. to Miami and San Francisco, and we did about 13 in total. When we first started, we had maybe six brands, and it was challenging to find them because the product had to be aesthetically pleasing and sustainable. Now we have hundreds of brands that we work with, so it\u2019s very cool to see that change in a relatively short period of time.<\/p>\n

We have ready-to-wear accessories, shoes and jewelry, and there\u2019s so many things we could bring
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I would hope that in terms of sustainable fashion, it\u2019s not talked about as a trend anymore. It\u2019s simply that we\u2019re talking about the fashion industry because everything will have sustainability embedded in it in some way, shape or form.<\/p>\n

I also have a charity called WELL\/BEINGS<\/a>, which I launched four years ago. I call it my second job. I have loved animals my whole life, and when I found out my dog was from a puppy mill, I had to do something about it. My nonprofit focuses on animal welfare and the environment. With WELL\/BEINGS, we want to explain to animal lovers that it\u2019s important to protect a species \u2014 not just because we want to save the species but also because it protects us and it protects the natural environment. We try to highlight interconnection and offer beach clean-ups too. People really want to be a part of that, especially now after the pandemic, but they don\u2019t always know how to get involved, so we offer these opportunities.<\/p>\n

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In terms of my nonprofit, I hope we see organic growth and that we can have some sort of impact, which is why I started it \u2014 to feel like I am making a difference with the environment and protecting animals.<\/p>\n

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With both jobs, they\u2019re my passion projects, and so I kind of forget they\u2019re my occupation. I actually care about what I am doing. I definitely don\u2019t have a plan. I really had no idea initially of what I wanted to do, but I was always talking a lot about fashion and animal welfare, and the more you put those ideas out into the universe, the more it comes to you. That\u2019s sort of how my career path has gone. Right now, I\u2019m living in Europe, which was very unexpected. You can\u2019t really plan too far ahead \u2014 a lot of unexpected things can happen and you just have to roll with it. The good part is that you learn a lot, including how to adapt and be flexible.<\/p>\n

Read GRAZIA USA\u2019s Fall issue featuring cover star\u00a0Nicola Peltz Beckham<\/a>:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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