Hi, my name is Blessing Adebimpe, and I’m the founder of Bimpegold Sustainable Fashion. I am an immigrant from Nigeria who came to Canada to pursue a transdisciplinary graduate degree at Memorial University. Through the university’s MBA Social Enterprise Incubator, I found a pathway to merge my lifelong passion for fashion design with my commitment to sustainability and social impact.

With several years of experience as a fashion designer and researcher in Nigeria, I noticed a concerning trend in fashion consumption patterns here in Canada that mirror the same global crisis I witnessed back home.

In Africa, mountains of discarded clothing arrive every day, fashion waste that communities neither produced nor can process. These unwanted garments flood waterways, pollute coastlines, and threaten local economies. Having seen this devastation firsthand, I founded Bimpegold Sustainable Fashion to offer sustainable fashion design and training services that challenge these harmful systems and inspire mindful fashion choices.

Did you know that only about 60% of fast fashion garments are ever sold, and 3 out of 5 end up in landfills? Much of this waste is exported to African nations, where it wreaks havoc on people, animals, and the environment.

For me, sustainable fashion is more than a profession, it’s a solution. It’s one of the few ways every individual can make a tangible difference in protecting our planet.

At Bimpegold, we’ve partnered with several local organizations to deliver hands-on training in sustainable fashion, empowering people to repair, upcycle, and reimagine what they wear. The growing enthusiasm for sustainable fashion gives me hope that together, we can be stylish without guilt.

Our campaign for responsible fashion consumerism stands against fast fashion, wasteful trends, and thoughtless disposal. It stands for bespoke tailoring, clothing repair, upcycling, and ethical fashion waste management.

Everyone can and should be part of this movement.
Let’s save the world, one stitch at a time.