Eco-Friendly Fashion Brands Earth Conscious Girls Need to Discover ...

By Neecey

Eco-Friendly Fashion Brands Earth Conscious Girls Need to Discover ...

It may surprise you to learn that the fashion industry is the second highest polluter on the planet – behind the oil business. US women consume ~80 million clothing items every year so that is a massive amount of resources, energy and delivery miles. The average American throws away 68lbs of textiles every year, much of which is not biodegradable. If this knowledge offends your eco-conscious sensibilities, you’ll be happy to learn the number of slow fashion brands is growing. Slow fashion brands promote value ethical production methods and use sustainable materials. Brands like these:

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Zady

Zady fights against the culture of buying more and more clothing at an increasingly lower quality, instead manufacturing garments that are designed and created with not only fashion sense but also longevity in mind. The company focus is to provide clothing that has a multi-seasonal appeal, therefore discouraging people from having to completely recycle their wardrobe as the weather changes.

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Reformation

One of the best slow fashion brands currently out there is definitely Reformation. Launched in 2009, the brand helps to prove that high-end fashion and sustainability can certainly live in perfect harmony. Not only do they utilize sustainable and vintage fabrics for their creations, but they also invest heavily in their workers, providing good wages with great health benefits. Their motto is “killer clothes that don’t kill the environment”.

3

Outdoor Voices

Having recently been featured in Vogue, this active wear brand is now making waves in the closets of all tuned-in fashionistas. They focus on good quality sportswear that does not go out of style, using the right materials and operating within the right ethical practices to run a truly sustainable business. They have also recently introduced a 100% recycled packaging policy, which can make a big difference to the plight of the environment.

4

The Sept Label

This is a brand for you if you are a fan of modernist, clean, simplistic fashion designs that also have an ethical conscience. The German based label manufacture in Germany and Portugal, and these countries in particular are known for their fair working conditions and ethical productions practices. The Sept Label do not believe that you have to sacrifice morals or ethics in order to produce high quality fashion garments.

5

Alternative Apparel

Just as the name would suggest, Alternative Apparel is dedicated to providing modern basic garments to take the place of the fast-fashion that is so disposable and flimsy, meaning that you have to constantly replace. The brand is well regarded for campaigning for social change through its responsible practices from using sustainable materials to using less water in their clothing production to caring deeply for the rights of their workers.

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Kow Tow

This is a super cool brand from New Zealand that produced fair trade garments that are sustainably and ethically created from seed to final garment. They are totally against what they believe to be a mainstream slave trade economy, and all of their garments are manufactured in India where their workers are paid a living wage, receive health insurance and are paid for holiday and sickness. Amazingly, all children of workers in Kow Tow factories receive free education.

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The Green Room @ ASOS

If you want something that feels vaguely familiar, then why not try The Green Room at ASOS, an environmentally friendly sub branch of the fast-fashion company that we all know so well. The stock everything from fair trade labels to recycled vintage fashion.

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Won Hundred

This awesome Scandinavian brand is at the very forefront of the ethical fashion movement, having banned the use of angora wool in their garments, as the production of it cannot be guaranteed to be ethically sound. They have also decided never to employ models who are smaller than a size 4, in order to promote a healthy but not dangerous body image.

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Deadwood

Deadwood is one of the rare fashion brands that use leather who are also painfully aware of the environment. In order to provide customers with great leather garments without further damaging the environment, Deadwood only uses recycled leather from previous creations to manufacture their new designs.

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