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Xoomba is back in Paris - making it a tradition to meet chez Ulysse the painter and transforming his elegant atelier in an explosion of color and scent. Maderosa makes essential oils and care products from Peru. And Xoomba makes organic cotton fashion in Burkina Faso.

Friday 5 @ 4pm vernissage

Saturday open all day with a talk by Heather, thé designer @ 5pm and music jam and defilé with Nils Nusens and friends @ 7pm

Sunday open all day with talk by Celine Motar, founder of Maderosa

Xoomba est de retour à Paris, perpétuant la tradition de se retrouver chez Ulysse, le peintre, et transformant son élégant atelier en une explosion de couleurs et de parfums. Maderosa fabrique des huiles essentielles et des produits de soin au Pérou. Et Xoomba confectionne des vêtements en coton biologique au Burkina Faso.

Vendredi 5 à 16h vernissage

Samedi ouvert toute la journée avec une conférence de Heather, la créatrice, à 17h, suivie d'une jam session musicale et d'un défilé avec Nils Nusens et ses amis à 19h.

Dimanche ouvert toute la journée avec une conférence de Celine Motar, fondatrice de Maderosa.

We are thrilled to bring Xoomba to an intimate audience of Martha’s Vineyard Islanders hosted at Nat and Pam Benjamin’s home on November 9th. For details please email at info@xoomba.com

Xoomba founder Heather Chaplet presents her clothing collection at the Pig Iron Theater school. At 5pm she will share her commitment to making fashion harmless, her creative and production process 100% in-house manufactured in her energy Independant studio in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso in West Africa. The event will conclude with some drinks & needles & dance with a DJ Born

Join us for this rare occasion

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An article in this beautiful magazine on fashion in Africa

Here are the newest pieces modeled in the midst of the active studio

Memories of a memorable day last year, the RDV du Coton Bio

En souvenir du RDV du Coton Bio de l’année dernière, voila le reportage de Agribusiness TV

On this day, last year we held the first celebration dedicated to organic coton and it’s processing in West Africa. From that meeting of the minds throughout the value chain of organic cotton, spinning, weaving, dyeing and sewing - the Coalition pour la Transformation du Coton Bio was born. This year, the demand for organic cotton yarn for local processing was quadrupled. This virtuous value chain is off to a brilliant future!

Un an d’aujourd’hui c’était le RDV du Coton Bio. une journée de celebration du coton bio et sa transformation locale en Afrique de L’Ouest. De ce rencontre de tout les acteurs dans la chaine de valeur du coton bio, dans la filature, la teinture, le tissage et le confection - La Coalition pour la Transformation du Coton Bio est né. La demande de fil bio pour la transformation locale a quadruplé cette année et cette chaine de valeur est parti pour un futur brilliant

Xoomba clothing is now available in the heart of the New York financial district. Xoomba clothing has taken a the journey from the hot sun of Burkinabé cotton fields to the caring hands of dyers, weavers and sewers to the crisp structure of the World trade Center Oculus. Voila here we are as a family celebrating the arrival at the Canvas store.

We had a wonderful evening at the Canvas sustainable fashion store in Williamsburg Brooklyn and showed this film of the process of making Xoomba pieces.

Showing the process of making Xoomba fabrics and clothing

With the code: QYJWH46 20% off all clothing until August 20th

Check out our cozier fall items because if you can plan that far in advance we can offer these pieces at a moderate price by avoiding retail overhead and making only what is needed, and as a result, creating sustainable jobs and regenerative agriculture in one of the poorest countries in Africa. And you will receive a beautiful piece made just for you this fall.