“I just don’t want to get stuck in a place.”
There’s a lot to admire about Forestbound founder Alice Saunders. A mere 26 years old, and she has already achieved more with her brand than most people do with their whole lives. “Yeah, this is my job,” she says with a smile, leaning against one of the two giant sewing machines that occupy her in-home studio. “I guess it’s going pretty good too.” Between the slew of high-profile press she has received (including real, honest-to-god print publications), her recent capsule collection for Anthropolgie, inspiring a legion of copycats on Etsy, and, the fact that she’s been gainfully self-employed since college, I would say that ‘pretty good’ is a bit of an understatement. “You’re a total success” I tell her. She shrugs, “I guess.”
