Esprit Holdings

Aside from discussing a small project in greening a retail store, (and the old connection to Esprit’s Ecollection and Parque Pumalin in Patagonia) we haven’t made much mention of outdoor clothing and equipment company, The North Face, ...

The other day in profiling the company Terrapax, we suggested that Nau was not, strictly speaking, ‘ahead of its time’, but rather they were treading a path laid down by eco-pioneers, well over a decade ago. Today we take.

In future posts we’ll also visit the likes of Deja Shoe and Esprit Ecollection, but we begin with Terrapax. In 1992, James Cox, who’d been a design director at the North Face, struck out on his own to produce a line of planet and people ...