Fashion has been extractive for too long—taking from the earth, from workers, from communities. Regenerative materials actively restore what conventional agriculture depletes. Climate Beneficial™ farms sequester carbon, rebuild soil, support biodiversity.
When you wear Herderin, you're participating in healing—for your body, for the land, for the future.
Every Herderin garment is designed in our San Rafael studio and sewn in San Francisco—less than 15 miles apart. This isn't just about reducing carbon emissions from transportation. It's about building relationships, not transactions.
When design and production exist in proximity, we can collaborate closely, maintain quality control, and solve problems together in real time.
Regional manufacturing keeps craft alive, supports local economies, and strengthens community bonds. It means the people who sew your clothing earn fair wages in safe conditions. It means we know their names, understand their expertise, and value their contribution to every garment.
True regeneration isn't only about healing land—it's about building economic systems where communities flourish, where skilled labor is honored, and where fashion becomes a practice of care for both people and place.
Herderin was created by Alix Vasquez, PhD—a sociologist specializing in identity, embodiment, and material culture. Her research revealed that clothing functions as infrastructure for identity: the material foundation through which we construct ourselves daily.
When infrastructure fails, so does our ability to inhabit the world with ease.
Regeneration became central to her work—not just ecological regeneration, but embodied regeneration. What if clothing could restore both land and lived experience? What if the same practices that heal soil could create garments that honor bodies?
As a 6'0" tall woman, Alix recognized what was missing: clothing designed from tall bodies as the foundation, not adapted from standard sizing. She refused the false choice between environmental values and proper fit. She envisioned a brand where tall women's embodied experience and regenerative materials were never in conflict—where both were essential from the beginning.
Seven years of design development and work within regenerative fiber systems led to Herderin: clothing where embodied design and ecological restoration are inseparable.
Tall-centered proportions. Climate Beneficial™ materials. Plant-based dyes. Regional production. Each element reflects a commitment to regeneration—creating systems where bodies and earth both deserve care, both deserve to flourish.
Herderin clothing is designed not just for tall women's proportions, but also for the natural curves of our bodies. Our garments expand and contract, creating balanced silhouettes and sculptural framing of the body. Our garments are size flexible.
A foundation to our approach in design ethos is freedom.
Our garments contain zero hardware.
Herderin fibers are grown and processed in the US, and are certified organic with authentic ethical and environmental standards.
We use textiles that support nature via Climate Beneficial™ wool and cotton, regenerative Rocky Mountain Merino wool, and Texas co-op grown organic cotton. The only textile we import is silk.
Herderin is Fibershed certified for ethical production, practices and textiles.
Herderin is pleased to announce artisan dyers, Botanical Colors, as our plant-dye production partner.
We use OurCarbon, an organic waste, for a selection of garments in our offerings.
All other non-toxic dyed garments are circularly dyed 8 miles from our studio in Novato, California.
Why Regenerative?
Bioregional health
Founded on Regeneration and Embodied Practice
Body Centered Desgn
Climate Beneficial™ and Regenerative Fibers
Plant & Non-Toxic, Circular Dye