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sønderhaus

USA · Est. 2022 · Mid-range

Sønderhaus is an ethical, minimalist American clothing label for women, founded in American Fork, Utah in 2022 by Olive Redd. Described as a slow fashion studio rooted in heritage, family and craftsmanship, the brand is run by three sisters and their best friend. Its designs draw on vintage silhouettes, Scandinavian heritage and lakeside summers in the Midwest, reflecting the values of kinship, simplicity and connection the founders were raised on. The collection covers dresses, sweaters, cardigans, tops, T-shirts, trousers, jeans, skirts, shorts, matching sets, sleepwear and swimwear, designed in Utah for everyday wear. Garments are produced in small batches with partner factories mainly in Turkey, China and Vietnam, along with India, and the shop also carries accessories from other small makers. Sønderhaus prioritises natural fibres such as cotton, linen and wool that can be recycled or composted, using only recycled synthetics when a garment's construction requires them. Every factory is vetted by its third-party partner Calico through self-assessments and regular quality checks. Its Sønderhaus Seconds initiative offers imperfect pieces to reduce waste while keeping quality clothing accessible.

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Faherty Brand

USA · Est. 2013 · Mid-range

Faherty is an American casual clothing label for men and women, founded in 2013 by twin brothers Mike and Alex Faherty with Alex's wife, Kerry Docherty, and based in New York. The brothers are lifelong surfers who left jobs in fashion and finance to start the family-run brand, and Docherty now oversees its impact initiatives. Faherty makes relaxed, beach-inspired clothing built on premium fabrics with what it calls gotta-feel-it-to-believe-it softness. The range covers button-up shirts, tees, knits, sweaters, hoodies, shorts, pants, dresses, swimwear and outerwear. Its best-known pieces include button-ups such as the Laundered Oxford Shirt, Movement Shirt and Legend Sweater Shirt, along with Sunwashed tees and hoodies, All Day and Shorelite swim trunks, Coastline chinos and Miramar linen sweaters. Faherty works with manufacturers in several countries, with pieces made in places including Japan, Turkey, India, Peru, Portugal and the USA. It is a certified B Corp, and in 2024, 72% of its fibres were responsible materials such as organic, recycled or Supima cotton. It remains an independent, family-run business. The brand runs dozens of its own stores across the US and sells online and through retailers.

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NOM*d

New Zealand · Est. 1986 · Mid-range

NOM*d is a New Zealand designer label, founded in Dunedin in 1986 by designer Margarita Robertson and her husband, Chris Robertson. The label continues to embrace the gothic character of its southern home city, offering a wardrobe that is understated and subversive. Its irreverent approach to tailored silhouettes and utilitarian textiles, with deconstruction and unexpected reworking, creates garments that are experimental yet can be worn as a uniform. Collections mix sharp jackets and coats with relaxed dresses, shirts, trousers, skirts and knitwear, along with the ICONIC range of graphic tees, tank dresses and hoodies. Popular pieces include the Boyfriend Jacket, the Swing Coat, the Big Crest Tee and the Archive Short Sleeve. The own-label clothing is made in New Zealand. Over more than three decades, NOM*d has built its reputation as a label that honours the intelligence and individuality of the wearer, and it showed at London Fashion Week in 1998 as one of the "New Zealand Four". The brand is independently owned by Margarita and Chris Robertson, and its George Street store in Dunedin sells NOM*d alongside an edit of international designers.

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Attire The Studio

Germany · Est. 2019 · Luxury

Attire The Studio is a German sustainable designer label for women, founded in Moorrege, near Hamburg, in 2019 by influencer Xenia Adonts. After years of fashion weeks and campaigns, she wanted to do something more meaningful in fashion, and after watching The True Cost she turned down a lucrative capsule deal to build her own honest, transparent brand. Its elevated, versatile wardrobe staples aim to be modern, minimalist and wearable without compromising on quality or design. The range includes knit sweaters, blazers such as the Everyday Blazer, coats like the Izmir Long Coat, knit and silk dresses, tops, camisoles, shirts, shorts, trousers and jumpsuits, plus wool beanies. Most pieces are made in Italy, with some produced in Portugal and Romania, using wool, silk, linen and organic cotton. The label works with mills in Italy and Portugal and discloses the origin of its yarn; its coats use wool from a small sheep farm and mill in Portugal. Attire The Studio remains independent and is led by its founder, who openly shares the challenges of building an ethical brand.

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Sydney Pimbley

UK · Est. 2019 · Luxury

Sydney Pimbley is an upcycled UK designer clothing label for women, founded in London in 2019 by designer Sydney Pimbley. A graduate of Central Saint Martins' BA Fashion Design with Knitwear and a recipient of the LVMH Grand Prix Scholarship, Pimbley worked in the couture studio of Maison Margiela, assisting John Galliano, before launching her slow fashion brand. Inspired by her Welsh heritage, she builds ethical luxury collections on the principles of sustainability and authenticity. The label creates dresses, skirts, trousers, shorts, jackets, tops and accessories, many of them one-of-a-kind or made in very small runs. Pieces are handmade in the United Kingdom, using fabrics, trims and embroidery collaged from vintage sources and finished with layers of hand detailing. Her upcycled approach reworks antique and vintage textiles such as silk, cotton and wool rather than relying on new fabric. After the birth of her first child in 2025, Pimbley dedicated her 2026 collection to celebrating the female body through lush antique fabrics. Sydney Pimbley's work has appeared in Vogue Italia, i-D, The Face, Teen Vogue, WWD, Sleek and Metal Magazine. She took part in P.LACE.S, a SHOWstudio and MoMu Antwerp lace exhibition and film.

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Kahindo

USA · Est. 2017 · Mid-range

Kahindo is an ethical luxury womenswear label, founded in New York in 2017 by Kahindo Mateene. Mateene was born in Congo and raised across Africa, and her bold designs draw on that pan-African upbringing and her Congolese heritage. She became known internationally through Project Runway Season 12, and she built the label to prove that ethical production in Africa could make luxury garments. Kahindo makes dresses, jumpsuits, jackets, tops, blouses, trousers, rompers and coats, plus silk scarves and earrings, using African prints, organza and jacquard. Pieces include the Balloon Sleeve Ombré Organza Jumpsuit, the Bantu Dress, the Blue Jacquard Zola Pants and the Green Shimmer Bomber Jacket. Most pieces are made in Kenya by a women-led co-operative in Nairobi, with some made in Nigeria and the DRC. Artisans earn a living wage and receive named credit on every piece, and its ombré gradients are hand-dyed over up to two days per length. Kahindo has been stocked at Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's and Anthropologie and featured in Vogue, Elle, The New York Times and WWD. Mateene was a 2021 Tory Burch Fellow and is a graduate of The Workshop at Macy's.

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The Series NY

USA · Est. 2016 · Mid-range

The Series NY is a gender-neutral, upcycled American designer clothing label, founded in New York in 2016 by Ella Wiznia. Wiznia started the brand while recovering from an eating disorder, wanting to make clothing that felt different from the unrealistic bodies she saw in fashion advertising. Learning about the industry's environmental impact, she committed to working only with secondhand and sustainable materials, and the label champions clothing without gender, for all bodies. The Series makes one-of-a-kind jackets, quilted chore jackets, shirts, shorts, jeans, pinafores and accessories from vintage quilts, crochet blankets, embroidery, antique and deadstock textiles. Every piece is made from start to finish in New York by its small in-studio team or skilled local artisans. The brand celebrates crafts long tied to domesticity and undervalued as "women's work", choosing damaged or unfinished quilts rather than cutting up pieces in perfect condition. Apart from some crochet made with organic fibres, garments use only pre-existing materials, and its makers set their own rates to earn a living wage. The Series has been featured in Lampoon Magazine, appeared in Vogue's street style coverage of New York Fashion Week and held a residency at Burke Mercantile.

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ace&jig

USA · Est. 2009 · Mid-range

ace&jig is an American textile-led designer label for women, founded in 2009 by Cary Vaughan and Jenna Wilson and based in Brooklyn and Portland. The pair met in 2001 as fashion design interns and instantly bonded over their shared love of textiles, later setting out to create a collection of their own. The brand designs its own yarn-dyed woven textiles, focusing on colour, pattern and texture to create fabrics that bring joy. From these fabrics, ace&jig develops seasonless collections of clothing, accessories and home items in sizes XXS–4X. Dresses include the Nosara, Loulou, Cliff, Beth and Asha, and the range also includes the Alma Shirt, the Anu Tank, the Bailey Short, the Cabana Pant, the Zoe Jumper and the Highway Jacket, plus kids' styles and the Dream Quilt. Its textiles are woven and its garments sewn by Fair Trade Certified partners in India, and each custom textile can take a year or more to make. It uses organic cotton, passes scraps on to its community and encourages customers to swap, repair, resell and upcycle. ace&jig is independent and run by its co-founders, and has been featured in The New York Times and The Cut.

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Pari Desai

USA · Est. 2014 · Mid-range

Pari Desai is a luxury American designer clothing label for women, founded in Los Angeles in 2014 by Pari Desai. An Indo-Canadian native of Toronto, Desai studied traditional tailoring and millinery before becoming an in-house designer at one of the last knitting factories operating in North America. Working directly with craftspeople and mills sparked her passion for textile innovation, and she designed for TSE and Calvin Klein in New York before launching her collection, an elemental, modern expression of luxury. The label offers dresses, sweaters, cardigans, tops, shirts, skirts, trousers and jackets, plus swimwear, shoes, handbags and jewellery. Clothing is made in Peru through small-scale production with family-owned factories and artisans using techniques passed down through generations, including knitwear in baby alpaca blends and Pima cotton. Material and craft innovation remain the creative focus. Desai selects pure, luxurious raw materials such as silk, organic cotton and wool that are grown responsibly or regenerated from industrial refuse, and the brand applies circular and regenerative systems that consider the full life cycle of each piece. The label describes its partnerships with makers as mutually beneficial, equitable and non-exploitative, and its knitwear is also sold through Garmentory.

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H. Fredriksson

USA · Est. 2004 · Mid-range

H Fredriksson is an American sustainable designer label for women, founded in New York in 2004 by Swedish designer Helena Fredriksson. Inspired by the dark psychology of Bergman films and contemporary European painting, the collection has an air of melancholic beauty drawn from the austere silhouettes of the Nordic landscape. Fredriksson balances tailored garments with oversized, loosely draped pieces, and that juxtaposition sits at the core of the label's aesthetic, combining the Scandinavian sensibility of her upbringing with the multicultural reality of life in New York. The range covers dresses, tops, tunics, skirts, pants, jumpsuits and outerwear. Pieces include the Bedford Long Stina Dress, the Box Dress, the Ikat Love Dress, the Drip Skirt, the Carol Coat, the Block Poncho and the Ikat Jumpsuit. The collection is manufactured in New York City using sustainable fabrics and production methods, reflecting the designer's belief in both traditional craft and new sustainable fabric technologies. Drawing on her art background, Fredriksson creates intricate, nature-inspired prints from her own photographs and drawings, used on fabrics such as silk and cotton. Fredriksson lives and works in Brooklyn, where she owns and runs the independent label.

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KikoRomeo

Kenya · Est. 1996 · Luxury

KikoRomeo is a Kenyan designer label, founded in Nairobi in 1996 by designer Ann McCreath. Born in Scotland, McCreath studied fashion in Rome and worked as a designer in Barcelona before aid work in Kenya led her to choose trade over aid. Named after the Swahili for "Adam's apple", the label creates sustainable, often unisex clothing that transcends cultures and trends and is designed for longevity. The range includes jumpsuits such as the Bumi, Maridadi and Samawati Jumpsuits, overalls like the Blinky Overalls, workman jackets and hand-painted coats. Some coats are hand-painted by Sudanese fine artist Eltayeb Dawelbait and made from cotton industrial waste. KikoRomeo is made in Kenya with handmade and hand-dyed fabrics and hand-carved trims sourced from the African continent, mainly in cotton, silk and linen. Fair trade since it began, it was set up to create jobs in rural areas, working with community artisans and women's groups. McCreath also founded the Festival of African Fashion and Arts (FAFA) in 2008. The independent label has shown across Africa, Europe and the USA, including at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Johannesburg.

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Tradlands

USA · Est. 2012 · Mid-range

Tradlands is an American sustainable, minimalist clothing label for women, based in Pemaquid, Maine, and founded in 2012 by Sadie Beaudet and Jeremy Roberts. Beaudet, who runs the brand with her husband, grew tired of chasing fast-fashion trends and found herself drifting to the menswear aisles, where she saw options she couldn't find for women. Tradlands grew out of that missing space, focusing on perfecting essentials for women inspired by thoughtful tailoring, expert details and quality fabrics rather than the runway. The range includes button-up shirts, tops, sweaters, dresses and pants, with extended and plus sizes. Signature pieces include the Marin Boatneck Shirt, the Coast Camp Linen Shirt, the Bertille Top, the Nico 2.0 Balloon Sleeve Dress, the Porch Balloon Pants and the Cosimo Alpaca Cardigan. Woven pieces such as button-ups are made in China and knits such as sweaters in Peru, with family-owned manufacturers. Tradlands focuses on natural fibres such as cotton, linen and alpaca, creating foundational pieces meant to become the canvas of a wardrobe rather than disposable fashion. The brand says it is built by its community and team, and it shares how women wear its pieces on Instagram.

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Pink Haley

USA · Est. 2022 · Mid-range

Pink Haley is an ethical, handmade American clothing and lifestyle label, founded in Los Angeles in 2022. The brand is named after its founder's daughter, Haley, and was created to pass on the value of being socially and environmentally conscious as makers, brands and consumers. It describes its style as eco-friendly elegance meeting nostalgic resort fashion, with vintage-inspired pieces built to last year after year. The range includes kaftans and resort dresses, tailor-made clothing, handmade shoes, rattan and leather bags, accessories, rattan furniture and handcrafted home décor. Products are made in Indonesia by artisans using traditional hand skills, with materials such as rayon, linen, leather, raffia and rattan. Respect for artisans' craftsmanship is central to the label, and its priority is ensuring makers are paid sustainable living wages. Following a slow-made, slow fashion approach, Pink Haley produces in small batches and on demand to avoid overconsumption and waste, and aims to support as many artisans as possible in keeping their skills alive for the next generation. Alongside its own creations, the online store offers curated collections that share its focus on sustainable fashion and handmade home accessories.

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Rita Row

Spain · Est. 2013 · Mid-range

Rita Row is a European sustainable designer clothing label for women, founded in Figueres, Spain in 2013 by Imma Serra and Xènia Semis. The complementary duo launched the brand in June 2013 in the creative landscape of Girona, guided by a shared vision of comfort, versatility and beauty. Their pursuit of a simple, slow life close to nature shapes collections created for Rita, the brand's muse, a woman of effortless sophistication and refined simplicity. The label makes contemporary coats, jackets, knitwear, trousers, shirts, tops and dresses, along with bags, shoes and jewellery. Pieces include the Rona Oversize Trench, the Cedar Coat, the Brio Cardigan and the Feixa Pants. Its clothing is ethically made in Spain and Portugal, with threads and fabrics sourced mainly from Spain, Italy and France. Rita Row prioritises natural and recycled materials such as organic and recycled cotton, Better Cotton, ECOVERO viscose, Tencel and wool, and works with factories audited under BSCI and SMETA. The women-led, self-financed company is run by a team of ten women from its atelier in L'Empordà, sells in Europe, North America and Asia, and has shown at CIFF and Mandatory CPH in Copenhagen.

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Salua Lingerie

USA · Est. 1993 · Affordable

Salua Lingerie is an American ethical lingerie and sleepwear label for women, founded in 1993 by Yolanda Navarro and based in Seattle. Navarro began making lightweight sleepwear for friends in her home town of Santa Marta, Colombia, naming the label after one of her daughters. Her daughter Shadia K'David, who grew up watching her mother at the cutting table, moved to Seattle in 2009 and grew the family business in the US, opening a boutique there. Salua makes classic, mostly cotton nightgowns, pajamas, sleep shirts, chemises, robes, bralettes and underwear. Signature pieces include its brushed Pima cotton pajama sets and sleep shirts, the Sofia Eyelash Lace Chemise and the Bloomer bralette. Its silks and cotton-silk gowns are made in Navarro's original workshop in Santa Marta, and its Pima cotton loungewear is made by a small, family-owned workshop in Medellín. The label works with makers it knows personally and favours natural fibres such as Pima cotton, silk and lace, with long-serving workshop staff and an emphasis on handmade craftsmanship. Salua has been sold in more than 60 boutiques across the United States and featured in Bride & Groom Magazine and The Lingerie Addict.

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DECADE STUDIO

Canada · Est. 2019 · Affordable

Decade Studio is a Canadian denim label for women, founded in Vancouver in 2019 by designer Molly Spittal. Spittal launched the brand in April 2019 with a small group of co-founders, after previously founding the leather handbag label The Stowe. Every piece is designed in-house by Spittal, with a fixation on proportion, weave and long-lasting, traditional finishing, and every pattern is developed in-house and tested on real bodies. The brand takes pride in its shape-inclusive fits. Decade Studio is known for non-stretch jeans made from 100% cotton denim, such as the Joan, the Benny, the Andy and the Gusset. The line has expanded to trousers like the Fortune and the Kit, soft tailoring, the Bonnie Shorts and The Classic T-Shirt. Its jeans are made by hand from start to finish at a small, family-run factory in Northern Portugal, where everyone is paid a living wage, using 100% cotton denim from a mill in Italy. The brand works in small batches with natural fibres and aims to make long-lasting, repairable and recyclable jeans. Decade Studio is a small, independent brand run by Spittal and her partner Matt from their shop and office in Vancouver.

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Hey Gang

USA · Est. 2018 · Mid-range

Hey Gang is an American kids and women's clothing label, founded in 2018 by Lauren Block and based in Los Angeles. After 20 years in fashion as a store owner, buyer and designer, Block started the brand after having a baby, wanting cute, interesting kids' clothes that were actually functional, and then wanting them for herself. The collection is influenced by utility, function, play and timelessness, with inspiration rooted in music, old movies, heritage nostalgia and classic Americana. Hey Gang began with coveralls and overalls for babies and children before adding women's coveralls, natural overalls, denim, trousers, tops and tees, and by 2021 women's wear made up 60% of its sales. Every piece is made in the USA, in Los Angeles, using sturdy fabrics such as Japanese and American denim and 100% cotton jersey. The fabrics and manufacturing facilities are ethically sourced, and customers can add a custom chainstitch, such as a name or a word, to any Hey Gang piece, a detail the brand suggests is even better as a gift. Hey Gang has been covered by Retail Brew and DFWChild, and its wholesale is handled by Franklin Showroom.

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Lanhtropy

USA · Est. 2016 · Luxury

Lanhtropy is an American linen clothing label for women, founded in Miami in 2016 by Ani Ponce de León. After working in fashion retail and at a trading company, she moved to Miami and, inspired by its beach life and natural beauty, set out to create high-quality linen pieces that blend comfort, style and ethical practice. The result is a relaxed, chic collection inspired by sun, sea and sand, designed for a free and active lifestyle. Its linen range includes the Bubble Linen Shirt and Dress, the Piano Piano Linen Dress, the Sabi and Emilia linen pants and the Frida linen shorts, many in its own prints. For cooler weather it makes knits, suede and leather pieces such as the Otto knitted vest, the Emma merino poncho and the Tundra leather jacket. Most clothing is made in Vietnam with a family-owned production house led by skilled seamstresses, where the brand says it pays fair wages, with some pieces made in China and India. Its core fabric is 100% natural linen. Years later, back in Uruguay, Ponce de León opened a store there and launched Lanhtropy's first winter collection. The independent brand now sells online internationally.

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Oori Ott

USA · Est. 2018 · Mid-range

Oori Ott is an American designer label for women, founded in Los Angeles in 2018 by Hannah Park. The Los Angeles-raised designer started it to make the nostalgic, glamorous pieces she couldn't find elsewhere. The brand is rooted in the harmony of opposites, East and West, past and present, maximalist glamour and everyday ease, drawing on traditional Korean dress, silver-screen icons and the excess of past decades to make clothes that feel dressed up without trying too hard. Styled OORI OTT, the label releases small drops of bodysuits, tops, skirts, shorts, trousers and dresses. Signature pieces include the Drive Bodysuit with shoulder pads, the Infinity Halter, the Petal Capri, the Bubbles Skirt, the hand-beaded Silk Rose of Sharon Skirt and the Tissue Dress, plus the Blossom Bag. As a slow-fashion brand, Oori Ott prioritises deadstock fabrics when available and produces most of its collections in Los Angeles with small, independently owned factories that value craftsmanship over volume. Styles that need specialised techniques are made in its small atelier in Seoul or at an audited, certified factory in Guangzhou. The independent label is owned and run by Park and sells through its own online store.

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La Fille d’O

Belgium · Est. 2003 · Mid-range

La Fille d'O is a Belgian luxury designer lingerie label, founded in Ghent in 2003 by Murielle Henriette Victorine Scherre. Scherre started the brand to challenge an industry she found hard to reconcile with her conscience, creating avant-garde lingerie that is stunningly beautiful, surprising and fairly made. Her company remains fully owned by her. The collection includes bras, tops, briefs, bodysuits and swimwear in opaque and see-through fabrics, built on her own Easy Sizing system, which fits most bodies without the clutter of adjustable straps. All production is made in Belgium, with fabrics sourced as locally as possible, including fabrics from Penn Italy. La Fille d'O was the first brand to design a lingerie collection with both AMAB and AFAB bodies in mind, and most designs can be adjusted for prostheses at its Ghent studio. The brand avoids recycled fibres in favour of long-lasting, high-quality materials and offers made-to-measure alterations in its own stores in Ghent and Antwerp. La Fille d'O has earned the Handmade in Belgium label, and its bras have been worn by Rihanna and Lady Gaga. Scherre also sat on the jury of the LA Fashion Film Festival.

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BITE

Germany · Est. 2011 · Mid-range

BITE is a sustainable European designer clothing label for women, founded in Berlin in 2011 by designer Beatriz Tomás. The label is all about independent design, artisan work, support of local trade and sustainable fashion, and Tomás belongs to a fresh wave of designers building brands with a more conscious approach to fashion at their core, empowering female work and ethical practices. BITE makes tops, dresses, skirts, pants and jackets such as the Lugosi Dress, Smog Dress, Dusk Skirt, Stratus Crop Top and Agate Jacket, many cut in body-hugging jersey and satin. All manufacturing is handled in-house in Berlin, Germany, giving the label full control over quality, sustainability and ethical practices. The brand rejects fast fashion and the delocalisation of production, protecting the labour rights and dignity of the people involved in making its clothes. It prioritises quality over quantity, uses sustainable fabrics and locally sourced materials, and aims to minimise waste at every step of production. Local manufacturing also cuts transport emissions and supports the regional economy, as part of what BITE describes as a movement that values craftsmanship, transparency and responsible production.

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ZAZI

Netherlands · Est. 2017 · Luxury

ZAZI is an ethical, handmade designer label for women, founded in Amsterdam in 2017 by Jeanne de Kroon. It began in her student bedroom with just seven ikat dresses, growing out of her work with Madhu Vaishnav and the Saheli Women collective in rural India. Those first collaborations inspired a wider vision: to celebrate artisanal craft, nature and women's stories through cloth. ZAZI is best known for its ikat and embroidered coats, alongside dresses, waistcoats and knitted beanies, and it also offers custom coats. Signature pieces include the Aisara Wrap Coat, the Devi Coat, the Indira Coat, the Madina Coat, the Zebay Coat, the Aarohi Maxi Dress and the Aziz Waistcoat. Each piece is the result of collaborations with more than 1,100 artisans, mainly in India and Afghanistan, with some pieces from Ghana. The label works with natural materials such as handwoven cotton, silk and wool, and its partner families' cultures and techniques shape every collection. Customers can pre-fund new collections before they are made. ZAZI remains independent and is led by its founder from its Amsterdam studio.

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Selfi

South Africa · Est. 2009 · Mid-range

Selfi is a South African designer, sustainable clothing label for women, founded in Cape Town in 2009 by Celeste Lee Arendse. Arendse launched the ready-to-wear brand after graduating, designing with the modern woman in mind. Her approach is design-led but wearable, known for sculptural, playful shapes and a focus on making women feel good in their clothes. The collection includes dresses, tops, shirts, skirts, jumpsuits, trousers, jackets and coats. Signature pieces include the Asymmetric Boxy Shirt Dress, the Clay Pot Tassel Dress, the Sculptured Tassel Dress, the Sailor Puff Sleeve Top, the Two Wave Mini Skirt, the Oval Sleeve Jumpsuit, the Mohair Tailored Cargo Pants and the Two Wave Hooded Coat. Everything is made in South Africa. Selfi produces its clothing locally in South Africa and sells through its own online store, which offers free local shipping on larger orders. Arendse was a finalist in the 2009 Elle New Talent Awards, showing at South African Fashion Week, and won the British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneur award in 2014. Selfi has shown at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town, and its work has featured at the Zeitz MOCAA museum.

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Ioana Ciolacu

Romania · Est. 2010 · Mid-range

Ioana Ciolacu is a Romanian designer label for women, founded in Bucharest in 2010 by designer Ioana Ciolacu. With a background in architecture, she approaches clothing through construction, proportion and movement, then lets something shift: a line runs further than expected, volume interrupts the body and structure gives way to softness. A London College of Fashion graduate, she has worked with Stella McCartney. The range includes dresses such as the Khaki Cable Dress, Dahlia Dress, Ripple Balloon Dress and Spiral Dress, blouses, corsets, crop tops, bodies, shorts and Balloon Trousers, plus the Fold Jacket. Accessories include gloves, socks, tights and bags. Each collection is developed through material experimentation and produced in Romania with a close network of local manufacturers. The label treats sustainability as a design constraint rather than a claim: fewer, considered pieces, local production, responsible materials such as deadstock fabrics, cotton, silk and linen, and garments made to last. Ciolacu won the Designer for Tomorrow award in 2013. The independent fashion house has been carried internationally by retailers including Farfetch, Moda Operandi and Zalando.

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