Today, fast fashion—the trend of big corporations rapidly and unethically bringing low-cost versions of high-fashion designs from the runway to their retail stores—is the second largest source of pollution in the world. This statistic has made the sustainable fashion industry more and more essential to the preservation of our earth. In Bushwick, Ashley Wheat and Coleman Downing are bringing that eco-conscious sensitivity to members of the community in the form of their brand, OMNIA ex NIHILO.