The brands

A curated circle of makers — meet the houses behind the pieces, and how they tread lightly.

All The Wild Roses

allthewildroses.com

All The Wild Roses is an Australian-based sustainable fashion label, creating timeless vintage and bohemian inspired designs.

Sustainability

Up to 90% of All The Wild Roses's designs are made from up-cycled fabrics (also referred to as deadstock, surplus or remnant fabrics) and about 20% of the brand's products are made out of vintage clothing. Being a small brand and working closely with makers, means that All The Wild Roses is able to work as closely as possible to orders and only make what is needed.

  • B Corp

Amadeus

amadeusbijoux.com

Amadeus is a London-based, sustainable jewelry brand founded by designer Nathalie Simond.

Sustainability

Amadeus uses recycled gold, silver, and brass to reduce the need for new mining, one of the most environmentally destructive industries. The brand produces in small quantities or to order, significantly cutting overproduction and waste. All pieces are crafted in the London studio, reducing carbon emissions from shipping and helping to preserve traditional jewellery-making skills.

  • B Corp
  • Fairtrade

Armedangels

armedangels.com

Armedangels is a German eco-friendly apparel brand founded in 2007, known for merging minimalist, contemporary fashion with strict ethical and environmental standards

Sustainability

Armedangels works with recycled and innovative materials and share knowledge openly. The brand also supports farmers in India in their transition to organic cotton with fair pay, training, and GMO-free seeds. This creates a supply chain that protects soils, secures incomes, and enables a real future.

  • GOTS
  • GRS
  • OCS
  • Fair Wear Foundation
  • RCS

Aspiga

aspiga.com

Aspiga is an ethical, Certified B-Corp sustainable fashion brand founded in the UK in 2006 by Lucy Macnamara.

Sustainability

Aspiga uses sustainable materials such as: organic cotton, natural fibres, recycled fabrics, and eco-friendly dyes to reduce environmental impact. The brand has removed 100% conventional synthetic fabrics from its collection and introduced recycled polyester made from post-consumer waste, certified by the GRS (Global Recycled Standard). Aspiga publishes their makers on its website and is committed to ensuring ethical practices across its operations and supply chains.

  • B Corp
  • OEKO-TEX®
  • EUROPEAN FLAX®
  • GOTS
  • GRS

Baukjen

baukjen.com

Baukjen is a London-based womenswear brand, with a focus on chic and sustainable fashion.

Sustainability

Baukjen is one of the highest-scoring B Corporations in the global fashion sector. 100% of its fabrics are responsibly sourced and the brand continuously aims to reduce the average carbon and water footprints of garments. Baukjen has significantly shortened its supply chain, while working with suppliers to reduce the amount of chemicals used in production.

  • B Corp
  • Living Wage employer
  • FSC®
  • PEFC

Boyish Jeans

boyish.com

Boyish Jeans is a collection of sustainable women's denim founded in California. Designed in Los Angeles, each collection is centered on vintage silhouettes with a modern update, all available at an attainable price point.

Sustainability

Boyish Jeans uses reduced indigo from Dystar with about 80 percent less sulphates and reduced the hazardous impacts of synthetic dyes by choosing plant based dyes instead. The brand also sources eco-friendly fabrics from Candiani Denim - a pioneering denim fabric mill renowned for its commitment to innovation and sustainability - to reduce waste and eliminate synthetics.

  • OCS
  • GRS
  • PETA approved
  • WCA audit

Carolina de Barros

carolinadebarros.com

Carolina de Barros Jewellery creates sculptural, consciously crafted jewellery handmade in London using recycled sterling silver and ethically sourced materials.

Sustainability

All the precious metals Carolina de Barros uses are repurposed from old jewellery, electronics and other industrial byproducts. The brand's supplier is a member of the Responsible Jewelry Council, which ensures that metals are ethically sourced and 100% recycled. Each piece is handmade on demand at the London studio and cast by a family-run business, whose know-how has been passed down through generations.

  • RJC

Cotopaxi

cotopaxi.com

Cotopaxi creates sustainably designed outdoor gear that fuels both adventure and global change.

Sustainability

Cotopaxi has been a certified B Corporation since 2015. As of 2024, Cotopaxi products contain no intentionally added PFAS and 100% of the brand's products contain materials that are either repurposed (using excess industry fabric), recycled, or responsibly certified (by a third party). The brand maintains supplier standards through a Code of Conduct, Human Rights Policy, Restricted Substances List, and Animal Welfare Policy. Cotopaxi also publicly discloses Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier partners.

  • B Corp
  • Fairtrade
  • RDS

Elvis & Kresse

elvisandkresse.com

Elvis & Kresse is a pioneering British sustainable luxury brand that upcycles decommissioned London fire hoses and industrial waste into high-end accessories like bags, belts, and wallets.

Sustainability

Elvis & Kresse rescues and relaims materials including fire hoses, parachute, printing blanket and coffee sacks. The brand also works with the Burberry Foundation to solve the problem of the 35,000 tonnes of leather waste produced each year by the European luxury industry. Elvis & Kresse is vertically integrated and makes its own products, ensuring that Living Wages are paid, as a minimum, on the production of all pieces.

  • B Corp
  • Living Wage employer
  • Certified Social Enterprise

Finisterre

finisterre.com

Founded in Cornwall in 2003 and built from the needs of hardy British surfers, Finisterre makes enduring outdoor wear for an inspired life in and around the sea.

Sustainability

Finisterre is a certified B Corp. In 2025, in collaboration with Living Ink™, Finisterre introduced algae-based ink swing tags, repurposing over 25 kg of microalgae into pigment. The brand also donated over £40,000 to its Ocean Partners in 2025 - supporting Surfers Against Sewage, Surfrider Foundation, Oceana UK, Thames21 and Project Seagrass.

  • B Corp
  • FWC
  • NetPlus®
  • REPREVE®
  • ECONYL®
  • Yulex®

Girlfriend Collective

girlfriend.com

In 2016, Girlfriend Collective was among the first to make performance activewear from recycled materials. Since then, the brand has perfected their range made from post-consumer plastic waste.

Sustainability

100% of Girlfriend Collective's collections use over 75% recycled polyester and all recycled fabric is certified Standard 100 by OEKO-TEX, the world’s leader in testing fabrics to regulate harmful substances. The ReGirlfriend take-back program also recycles worn pieces into their next life via SuperCircle.

  • SA8000
  • OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100

HYER GOODS

hyergoods.com

Emerging

HYER GOODS is a Brooklyn-based sustainable fashion accessories brand with a mission is to create high quality, beautiful and affordable products out of luxury fashion's high quality leftover materials, minimizing fashion's impact on the planet.

Sustainability

HYER GOODS creates Italian leather handbags using premium deadstock materials left over from luxury fashion houses. The bags are crafted in Italy in small batches, in family-owned factories. The brand also produces in limited quantities, guided by available materials rather than aggressive growth targets.

Icebreaker

na.icebreaker.com

Founded in New Zealand in 1995, Icebreaker pioneered natural, ethical outdoor and active apparel.

Sustainability

Icebreaker partners with Zentera Wool Company™, a New Zealand organisation leading the ZQ certification programme, to ensure every farm, regardless of location, maintains the same standards for animal welfare, land management and fibre quality that define Icebreaker's products. The brand publishes annual transparency dates and directly source 100% of its fabrics as of 2025.

  • ZQ certified

Kings of Indigo

kingsofindigo.com

Kings of Indigo is a sustainable denim brand from Amsterdam, innovating with materials and sustainable production methods.

Sustainability

Kings of indigo uses organic or recycled cotton. Organic cotton is grown without harmful chemicals and prioritizes soil health and biodiversity. Recycled cotton reduces the need for new fibers, and reduces our full environmental impact. All the brand's direct suppliers undergo social audits, meeting the standards of Amfori BSCI, SEDEX SMETA, or Fair Wear Foundation. Kings of Indigo also makes information about production locations publicly available on Open Supply Hub, updating it at least once a year.

  • GOTS
  • GRS
  • Fair Wear Foundation

Komodo

komodo.co.uk

Created by Mark Bloom (aka Joe Komodo), Komodo is dedicated to creating clothes that are sustainable and don’t have a negative impact on the environment.

Sustainability

Komodo is GOTS certified and a member of the soil association. The brand uses premium quality organic, natural and eco fibres, breaking new ground with innovative fabrics such as green PU coating and recycled PET, from plastic bottles. As a member of 1% for the Planet, Komodo also donates to the Sumatran Orangutan Society who are restoring natural rainforests and eco systems, through the purchase and repurposing of palm oil plantations.

  • GOTS
  • SEDEX audited

Kowtow

us.kowtowclothing.com

Founded in 2006 by Gosia Piatek in Wellington, New Zealand, Kowtow is a pioneering, seed-to-garment slow fashion brand.

Sustainability

Kowtow is a certified B Corp. Every part of its supply chain is traced from seed to garment. Independently audited and certified by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation International (FLO), it ensures farmers are paid fairly, while working to improve sustainability, governance, inequality and community development in surrounding communities.

  • B Corp
  • GOTS
  • Fairtrade
  • SA8000
  • OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100

Mashu

mashu.co.uk

Founded in 2017 by Greek designer Ioanna Topouzoglou, Mashu was born out of a desire to create vegan accessories that offered sustainability without a compromise in style.

Sustainability

Every single material used in a Mashu bag is 100% vegan, and has been carefully selected for it’s sustainable qualities. The majority of Mashu's materials are made from agricultural waste, utilising waste to create something new. By selecting vegan innovative materials it means less usage on water and land than conventional leathers, especially taking into account the amount of land and water usage needed for cattle.

  • PETA approved
  • GOTS
  • GRS

MATE the Label

matethelabel.com

MATE is a company founded and run by women with a mission to provide people everywhere with essentials that are clean from seed to skin.

Sustainability

MATE the Label is Climate Neutral and a B Corp. The brand uses organic yarns and dyes so that people and the planet are not exposed to harmful pesticides. Through its recycling program, MATE takes old garments back and give them new life as another MATE product. MATE also collects all of the cutting scraps from their factories and incorporate them into new MATE products with the help of a mechanical fiber recycler.

  • B Corp
  • Climate Neutral certified
  • GOTS

Ninety Percent

ninetypercent.com

Ninety Percent is established on the revolutionary spirit of care, with a promise to share 90% of the brand's profits with charity

Sustainability

Ninety Percent's manufacturing facility, EchoTex, is owned by the co-founder Shafiq Hassan and located in Gazipur, Bangladesh. EchoTex has numerous initiatives in place to ensure its practices protect the planet for future generations. From water saving to energy efficiency, Echotex is saving 19,577,964 KWh of energy and reducing 4,191 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

No Nasties

nonasties.in

No Nasties is a pioneering, carbon-negative Indian sustainable fashion brand founded in 2011 by Apurva Kothari.

Sustainability

Since 2011, No Nasties has made 100% organic, fair trade, vegan clothing. The brand conducts a full life cycle analysis looking at material composition, sourcing and consumption to give a specific footprint number for each garment. No Nasties then offsets 300% of this footprint, making it carbon negative, by investing in certified solar, wind, bio-gas offset projects. All of the brand's organic clothing is made by Rajlakshmi Cotton Mills (RCM) at their facilities in Kolkata and Noida in India. RCM is a GOTS, Fairtrade and SA-8000 certified company.

  • GOTS
  • Fairtrade
  • Peta India Vegan
  • SA8000

O My Bag

omybagamsterdam.com

O My Bag is an Amsterdam-based, B Corp certified fair-fashion brand renowned for its timeless, minimalist leather bags and accessories.

Sustainability

O My Bag uses premium quality eco-leathers tanned without the use of harmful chemicals like chromium and with no synthetic top finish. By choosing to work with carefully selected producers in India, the brand also contributes to global issues like fighting poverty and encouraging the empowerment of women.

  • B Corp
  • SA8000
  • GRS
  • GOTS

OMNES

omnes.com

OMNES is a London-based womenswear brand founded in 2021 to show that fashion can be good quality, affordable and responsibly made.

Sustainability

OMNES has partnered with the climate organisation Earthly since 2020 to measure the carbon impact of its operations, and offset it through investing in nature-based projects that remove carbon, restore biodiversity, and support the communities most impacted by climate change. The brand also only uses quality fabrics that are grown, sourced and manufactured responsibly, prioritising organic, natural, recycled and deadstock materials including LENZING™ ECOVERO™ viscose, certified organic cotton, linen, certified recycled polyester, and responsibly sourced wool.

  • B Corp
  • Living Wage employer
  • LENZING ™ ECOVERO™
  • TENCEL™ Lyocell

Outerknown

outerknown.com

Outerknown's goal is to make excellent-quality, sustainable products that last a lifetime, keeping our garments out of landfills and in circulation forever.

Sustainability

Outerknown has increased its preferred fiber usage (such as Regenerative Organic Certified® cotton, organic cotton, hemp, recycled cotton, recycled nylon, responsible wool, etc.) from 87% to 95% in 2022. In partnership with Bergman Rivera, Outerknown has also committed to supporting farmers’ implementation of Regenerative Organic Certified® (ROC®) practices with 28 acres of farmland converted to ROC® so far.

  • GOTS
  • Fair Labor Association
  • Regenerative Organic Certified® Cotton
  • NetPlus®
  • Kelsun®

Outland Denim

outlanddenim.com

Outland Denim is a premium, ethically minded apparel brand renowned for its sustainable practices and mission to empower survivors of human trafficking.

Sustainability

Outland become the first Australian, and second denim brand globally, to become B Corp certified. In 2019 Outland invested into its own wash house and finishing facility to give greater control over its environmental impact. The brand works only with certified safe chemicals, natural indigo dyes, and organic raw materials that have lower impact at the farm level, eliminating harmful pesticides.

PAKA

pakaapparel.com

Founded in Peru, PAKA's mission is to create natural, all-purpose clothing for people who love the outdoors.

Sustainability

98% of the fibers used in PAKA products are natural, organic and/or recycled. 45.4% of the fiber used in PAKA items is Traceable Alpaca, which tracks every product we make back to its original source. PAKA employs weavers at the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco (CTTC) and each PAKA sweater has a handwoven Inca ID attached - the unique signature of the woman who made it.

  • B Corp
  • GOTS
  • OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100

Parker Clay

parkerclay.com

Parker Clay handcrafts premium leather goods in Ethiopia, transforming communities through trade to create social and economic empowerment.

Sustainability

Parker Clay uses sustainable practices from top to bottom in the manufacturing and supply chain when creating their ethical leather bags. The brand works with local communities for sourcing of materials, employs local women as our artisans, and work with sister non-profit Ellilta to provide high-paying, professional-level jobs to employees.

Poppy Barley

poppybarley.com

Poppy Barley is a Canadian brand known for designing sustainable, everyday footwear, handbags, and knitwear.

Sustainability

All leathers used by Poppy Barley are a by-product of food production and a natural alternative to fossil fuel synthetics. Leather is also sourced from tanneries that are personally vetted or certified by the Leather Working Group (LWG). Poppy Barley screens all its factories for positive working conditions, including a living wage, full-time permanent employment with health care and pension benefits, fair working hours, paid vacation and sick leave, and ongoing training and opportunity.

  • B Corp
  • LWG certified

Stuart Trevor

stuarttrevor.com

Emerging

Founded by the British fashion designer Stuart Trevor, this brand offers a unique range of mens and women's clothing, designer streetwear and one-off vintage pieces.

Sustainability

Stuart Trevor wants to actively reduce the number of new clothes made, and reduce the environmental impact of any clothes that are made. The brand keeps clothes in circulation by reimagining vintage and dead stock clothing, turning dead stock fabric that would otherwise be disposed of into “living stock", and choosing the most sustainable methods to make any new essential lines.

Tentree

tentree.com

Tentree is an earth-first lifestyle apparel brand whose mission is to plant 1 billion trees by 2030 to drastically reduce climate change.

Sustainability

Tentree is a Certified B Corp with a Climate Neutral label. For every item purchased, Tentree plants trees, in an effort to regenerate ecosystems, capture carbon and provide planting jobs in communities around the world. By using only organic or recycled materials - like TENCEL™ lyocell, organic cotton or REPREVE® recycled polyester - Tentree is able to cut back on the waste water and emissions that are created by typical apparel manufacturing.

  • B Corp
  • The Climate Label certified
  • GRS
  • Bluesign® Certified
  • GOTS
  • WRAP
  • Fairtrade
  • RWS

Terra Thread

terrathread.com

Terra Thread backpacks, bags and apparel are created for conscious consumers, corporations and NGOs who are looking to make a positive impact on the world.

Sustainability

Terra Thread is a certified B Corp. Its products are made using Fairtrade Certified Organic Cotton, ensuring that farmers have access to safe working environments, gender equality, and are paid a fair price for their cotton. In 2022, Terra Thread became a Regenerative Organic Certified brand, the highest standard for organic agriculture in the world, and the only certificate with stringent requirements for soil health, animal welfare, and the social wellbeing of farmers and workers.

  • B Corp
  • Fairtrade
  • GOTS
  • Regenerative Organic Certified®

Yes Friends

yesfriends.co

Yes Friends exists to make ethical clothing affordable and transform the fashion industry.

Sustainability

Yes Friends works with Fair Trade and Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certified factories to ensure good social and environmental practices. The brand uses organic cotton and GOTS certified dyes. The primary factory in India where Yes Friends knit, cut & sew production takes place is water positive: 100% of water used is processed and recycled through either a reserve osmosis process or at the Effluent Treatment Plant onsite.

  • GOTS
  • Fairtrade
  • SMETA

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