{"id":557754,"date":"2010-04-22T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-leanne-mai-ly-hilgart-vaute-couture-earth-day-40-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:52:33","slug":"leanne-mai-ly-hilgart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/557754","title":{"rendered":"Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art: Nat Damm<\/a><\/p>\n

\nLeanne Mai-ly Hilgart<\/p>\n

Founder, Vaute Couture
Chicago, Ill.<\/p>\n

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Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, 27, launched Vaute Couture<\/a> last year with a line of chic, eco-friendly, cruelty-free, ethically
\nand locally produced coats that are warm enough for Chicago winters. As a vegan, model, and MBA, she brings a unique perspective
\nto her work—and strong values too; all profits from one of her styles
\nare donated to Farm Sanctuary<\/a>, a haven for rescued farm animals. Vaute Couture also sells vegan-themed T-shirts<\/a> and jewelry<\/a>. Hilgart tells you about it all on her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Watch Hilgart talk about her business:<\/p>\n

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Meet more people who are redefining green<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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by Grist .series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;} Art: Nat Damm Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart Founder, Vaute Couture Chicago, Ill. Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, 27, launched Vaute Couture last year with a line of chic, eco-friendly, cruelty-free, ethically and locally produced coats that are warm enough for Chicago winters. As a vegan, model, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}