![]() And so, in 2007, she took time off from her job to pursue a master’s degree in green energy and environmental policy at Columbia University, which kick-started a more than decade-long inquiry into sustainability she returned to the university in 2019 for a master’s in sustainability management. When she entered the working world, eventually becoming a managing director at Morgan Stanley, Barboni Hallik came to appreciate clothing’s expressive power in a corporate setting, but the question of social responsibility nagged. Her father was a sociology professor and her mother was an artist. ![]() Growing up in the small college town of Grinnell, Iowa, Barboni Hallik, 38, was raised in a community that she describes as being at the intersection of academia and the arts. Fashion, she realized, was “misaligned with how people were living the rest of their lives.” Among the questions she asked herself: “How do I want my clothes to be made?” While she knew people cared about the origins of the food they ate and the products they put on their faces, “I was surprised by how hard it was to come by information” about clothes, she said. ![]() It was only when Vanessa Barboni Hallik took a sabbatical from a 15-year career in finance to study sustainable practices within the industry that she began to put more thought into the environmental impact of her own everyday choices. ![]()
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