MEET THE CREATOR
Courtney Barriger is an award-winning artist, sustainable fashion expert, and author of ReFashion Workshop: The planet healing mindset. Her apparel line Holding Court was featured in Vanity Fair and GQ and won the Sustainability Award at iHollywood Film Festival and the prize of Americas It Girl on the eponymous TV Show on Oprah's WE TV network.
She has written investigative pieces and deep dives into culture and power dynamics for the LA Times and has been honored as "The Future of Fashion" by United Nations non-profit, Fashion Fights Poverty.
Barriger is also the producer and host of Environmental Style Now, a leading international information hub on sustainable and ethical fashion, where she and contributors explain the science and sustainability of fashion to shoppers and industry pros alike with prominent guests like Adrian Grenier and Fair Trade.
She frequently serves as a guest lecturer at universities in the United States and internationally and conducts art exhibitions, films and literature that push the conversation for sustainability in fashion.
A Letter from the Founder
"Our mission is to celebrate and protect our ritual connection with the cosmos. We are, all of us, shaped by the stars. They provoke us to feel deeper into our truest selves and our deepest instincts. Holding Court is a window into that vivid space. Welcome to Holding Court, born from necessity after years of experiencing the beauty industry as an international model, activist and a young woman first and foremost - I looked around me and realized there was a better way to make beautiful clothes and self care goods that respects people and the planet. The thing is, this industry always wants to convince you that you need MORE. That you aren’t capable of experiencing the shine, the beauty, the light in you unless you have the new hot thing they’re offering. They’ll tell you it’s the new best thing that you can’t live without, and then the trend will change and suddenly you’re looking at a closet full of things you ‘might wear one day’ and an empty space in your heart that is still searching for what they tried to sell you in the first place. It’s less about the goods, and more about the mindset you take when you have the itch to buy more goods. The thing is, what you are looking for can’t be bought. And what is it, you may be asking? It’s self love within, and love of our beautiful planet without."