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sloane the brand
Sloane the Brand was created in the winter of 2023 by Cecilia Chen and Margaret Hohenshelt through a shared passion for all things fashion and art. Seeing the rising corruption taking place through fast fashion and textile waste, they wanted to create a solution.
Cecilia Chen creates the designs for these shirts inspired by her favorite art history eras: art deco, surrealism, and impressionism. Together they set up their website, social medias, and landed a spot in their school bookstore. In 2025 and 2026, they launched 2 new lines: Gone West and Sloane Cares. These lines produce 85% organic cotton hoodies and 100% modal (made from beech wood) t-shirts. A portion of their profits go towards donating art supplies to DISD elementary schools after budget cuts to art education across Texas.
Sloane hopes to fight the defunding of art education and programs in areas like Socorro ISD, Fort Worth ISD, and even Houston's entire public art program. Profits from our newest lines will go towards donating $2000+ worth of art supplies to schools, creating arts education videos and live workshops, being a resource to teen artists without exhibition spaces, and working towards creating policy change around art accessibility. Support our cause by purchasing from:
Learn more about our impact and initiatives at:
2025-26: gone west and sloane cares
research
2025 research titled,
Looking Beyond the Label: Detecting Truth in Greenwashed Promises.
My research revolved around the use of the marketing tactic known as greenwashing on consumer behaviors. I wanted to learn more about how our consumption patterns contributed to a leading environmental problem: textile waste. Furthermore, the paper also looked into slow consumption, with an end goal of finding out how we as buyers can contribute to a more sustainable fashion industry.
My research was also nominated for the Pioneer Research Journal, placing it in the top 6% of all papers written through the program in 2025.
2026 research titled,
Matisse's Unpaid Debt: Cultural Reparations Through Supporting Contemporary Congolese Art.
In June of 2026, I attended the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute, taking a 3-week long course to study Colonial Extractions of African Cultural Treasures. This program, which did an in-depth dive into the importance and history of repatriating African art that was taken during Europe's colonial period, culminated in a research project. For my research, I looked specifically at modern day reparations to be provided to Congolese artists, based on the huge (yet largely unacknowledged) influence of Congolese art during the growth of French Modernism and Matisse's popularity.
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