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Jen’s Pirate Booty

USA · Est. 2007 · Mid-range

Jen's Pirate Booty is an American bohemian clothing label for women, launched in Malibu around 2007 by Jen Rossi. A former buyer at Planet Blue in Malibu, Rossi started the brand to design the pieces she couldn't find in the market. Its handmade, beach-inspired clothing is built around specialty textiles and artisan techniques. The range covers dresses, kaftans, tops, bottoms, jumpsuits and kimonos, with pieces such as the Adams Maxi Dress, the Vintage Maxi Slip Dress, the Asilah Kaftan and the Cleopatra Kimono. It also makes skirts, overalls, rompers, boho cowboy belts and jewellery, plus a kids' line called Jen's Little Pirates. The brand produces its clothing in five countries, chosen for their textiles and artisan techniques, with India and Mexico listed most often on its product pages, along with the USA and Indonesia. Jen's Pirate Booty is independent and owned and run by Rossi as founder and designer, and it has a flagship store in Joshua Tree, California.

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Cali Dreaming

USA · Est. 2009 · Mid-range

Cali Dreaming is an American clothing and swimwear label for women, founded in Los Angeles in 2009 by artist and designer Carrie Jardine. Jardine still designs every collection for the California lifestyle brand, which describes itself as designed in Venice, made in LA and owned by women. Its swim and clothing collections share an aesthetic of "versatility meets simplicity", an easy elegance the brand aims to deliver each season. Each seasonal collection builds on a broad spectrum of nude shades and adds on-trend hues, original art prints painted in house and hand dyes. The range includes shirts, tops, tees, pants, skirts, dresses, organic loungewear and swimsuits, with pieces such as the Ace Shirt, the St. Jean Cap Wrap Dress, the Bow Tie Slip Dress, the Petal Pant, the Flightsuit and the Velveteen Pant, along with swimwear like the High Neck One Piece and the Bandeau Top. Cali Dreaming develops, produces and manufactures all of its products sustainably and ethically in Los Angeles, working with the same local garment manufacturers and mills year after year. Cali Dreaming is independent and run by Jardine, selling online and through retailers.

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Electric & Rose

USA · Est. 2014 · Mid-range

Electric & Rose is an American activewear and lifestyle label for women and men, founded in Los Angeles in 2014 by Erin Chiamulon and Eric Balfour. The couple started the brand in their home in Venice, California, and named it after two streets in their Venice Beach neighbourhood. Chiamulon, a former stylist for WWD, began by hand-dyeing pieces in her backyard using traditional shibori tie-dye techniques, while Balfour is an actor known for shows like Haven and 24. Rooted in 1970s surf culture, the brand designs coastal clothing for women who want comfort without sacrificing shape. The line officially launched for Fall/Winter 2014 and now includes sweatshirts, pullovers, joggers, sweatpants, shorts, leggings, tees, tanks and shirts. Pieces include the Ronan Pullover, Neil Sweatshirt and Taylor Hoodie, Classic Joggers and Barrel Sweatpants, Sunset Leggings, Boyfriend Shirts, Paula tanks and quilted jackets. Electric & Rose makes its clothing in Los Angeles, where many pieces are still hand-dyed with local dye houses, and nearly all its fabrics are sourced locally. Through its 1% giveback initiative it supports organisations that protect the oceans. Electric & Rose is independent and owned and run by its founders.

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Alejandra de Coss

Mexico · Est. 2017 · Mid-range

Alejandra de Coss is a Mexican designer clothing and jewellery label for women, founded in Mexico City in 2017 by designer Alejandra de Coss. The brand sets out to create a new definition of luxury through small, responsible production runs, and each collection tells a story inspired by art, such as an autumn-winter collection based on the work of Jean Dubuffet. The label makes art-inspired blazers, tops, skirts, trousers and T-shirts, plus sculptural rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Blazers include the Bowler Black Blazer, the Gruyère Blazer, the Pinstripe Cut-Outs Blazer and the Unlocked Blazer, alongside the Key Crop Top, the Profile Top, the Pantalones Crush and the Comb T-shirt, and jewellery like the Anillo Venus, the Collar Cutlery and the Brazalete Mano. Each piece is handmade by artisan jewellers and traditional tailors in local workshops in Mexico. The brand works in small production runs and has used recycled cotton, deadstock fabrics and local labour to limit its impact. Alejandra de Coss is an independent label led by its founder, with a store at Nápoles 74 in Mexico City's Colonia Juárez. It sells online and ships internationally.

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Unborn

India · Est. 2020 · Affordable

Unborn is an Indian sustainable, handmade clothing label for women, founded in Koppal in 2020 by Mounica Chitturi. Chitturi, a NIFT graduate and environmentalist who serves as creative director, set up the studio to reconnect clothing with nature and the traditional practices behind it. Its motto, from our planet to your closet, sums up a slow, low-impact approach with no chemicals or bleach. The label makes tops, shirts, dresses, trousers, jackets and mulberry silk sarees, plus scarves and plant dye kits. Collections include Ecoprints, botanical prints such as Lost in Forest and True Spring, and Undyed, a line of raw white pieces like the All Day Shirt and Everyday Pants. Everything is handmade in small batches in Indian villages. Unborn works with handwoven natural-fibre fabrics, including Kala cotton, an organic cotton native to Kutch in Gujarat. Its eco-printing transfers real leaves and flowers onto cloth, and it dyes with plants and natural mordants while reusing the water from the steaming process. The brand aims to create jobs in rural communities and revive traditional crafts, and it sells online to customers in India and abroad.

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Runaway Bicycle

India · Est. 2014 · Mid-range

Runaway Bicycle is a sustainable Indian designer clothing label for women, founded in Mumbai in 2014 by Preeti Verma. Verma built the first collection in a one-bedroom apartment after work hours while holding a day job in advertising, driven by a personal need for clothes that felt comfortable before they looked good. Her lack of fashion training was offset by knowledge of traditional weaving and a belief that the most comfortable clothes are worn by children and people in physical work, such as painters, mechanics and road workers. The label makes dresses, tops, shirts, trousers, skirts and jackets, along with accessories and home décor. Everything is handmade in India, linking traditional weavers and dyers across the country, including handloom weavers in Bengal, with craftspeople in its Mumbai studio. Runaway Bicycle works with handloom and hand-spun cotton, silk, linen and wool, with some pieces hand-painted or naturally dyed. Its ethical philosophy is to make less: clothes designed to outlast trends and seasons, soften with age and withstand many washes, so customers buy less and wear longer. The label has shown at Lakmé Fashion Week and been featured by Vogue India, Vogue Singapore, Elle India and Mint.

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Anavila

India · Est. 2011 · Luxury

Anavila is an Indian designer, sustainable handmade clothing label for women, founded in Mumbai in 2011 by Anavila Misra. After a short stint abroad, Misra returned to India and began experimenting with indigenous textiles and artisanal skill, wanting to modernise and deconstruct the sari. After working with many clusters and artisans, she created the first linen sari, a comfortable, modern take on the garment that is now a staple of many sari wardrobes. Alongside its signature linen saris and festive collections such as Sarmast and Aamod, the label makes blouses, kurta sets, dresses, tunics, shirts, pants, jackets, overlays and lehengas, plus home pieces. Signature styles include the Khadi Bandi Blouse, the Anar Khadi Irregular Kurta Set and the Lilypond Pant. Everything is made in India. Anavila works closely with artisanal clusters and women across regions, from tribal artisans in Jharkhand to batik painters in West Bengal who wax linen to create water-like motifs. It chooses materials responsibly and believes mindful creation leads to mindful consumption. Misra won the Femina Women Jury Award for Arts and Design in 2017, was named in Grazia's 100 Most Influential People in Fashion, and joined the board of NIFT in 2018.

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Maria Stanley

USA · Est. 2016 · Mid-range

Maria Stanley is an American slow-fashion label for women, founded in Minneapolis in 2016 by designer Maria Stanley. After studying fashion and spending more than a decade working for womenswear brands in Los Angeles, Stanley launched her eponymous line with an emphasis on enduring, earth-friendly collections meant to be well lived in and loved for years, and she now runs it from her home state of Minnesota. The label describes itself as built around quality, purpose and treating the Earth kindly. The collections cover knitwear, tops, trousers, jackets, dresses and skirts. Pieces include the Alpaca Turtleneck Sweater and Brushed Cardi, the Anu Ribbed Tank and Maya Blouse, the Bennett and Cook trousers, the Conrad Chore Coat and Hooded Conrad Trench, the Henretta Dress and the Eldi Skirt, with organic knits and organic denim among recent ranges. Most garments are made by a family-owned factory in Delhi, India, and its knits are made in Peru. The label uses natural, organic and low-impact materials, including earth-dyed fabrics. Maria Stanley is an independent label owned and run by its founder, and its site features photo series with women such as Ema McKie and Alex Noiret.

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Cawley Studio

UK · Est. 2017 · Luxury

Cawley Studio is a British designer label for women, founded in London in 2017 by designer Hannah Cawley. The label was born out of Cawley's bedroom and holds the legacy of a family who create with their hands: she and her mum, Wendy, learnt to hand-smock together, using craft to bring time-honoured making practices into the present. That love of making by hand and a commitment to traditional British textile processes are central to the label. Cawley makes thoughtful, considered clothing in a light-filled South London studio. Its range includes shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts, jackets, coats, shearling and leather pieces, hats and bags, with pieces such as the Phoebe Shirt, the Barbara Pleated Trouser, the Erika Dress, the Ballet Skirt, the Agnes Mac, the Avis shearling jacket and the Bow Hat. Core shapes recur across collections, and it also offers bridal pieces. Every piece of clothing is hand-cut and made in England, using fine natural materials and working with skilled craftspeople who bring their own making traditions. Cawley Studio is independent and run by its founder, with studio appointments in South London and stockists across the USA, Europe and Asia.

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B SIDES

USA · Est. 2016 · Luxury

B SIDES is an American denim label for women, founded in 2016 by vintage collectors Claire Lampert and Stacy Daily and based in New York. Its name comes from the B side of a record, where the deep cuts live. Rooted in the singular character of vintage Levi's gathered across the American West, the brand began as an archive of rare jeans and has since grown into a full ready-to-wear collection. Alongside reworked vintage Lasso denim, B SIDES makes its own jeans such as the Plein High Straight, the Slim Lasso Jean, the Bec Jean and the Charlot Jean. Its ready-to-wear includes the Classic Cardigan in washed cashmere, Donegal Zip Knit Jackets, Pocket Tanks, the Myrr Snap suede jacket and the Duffel Coat. The brand produces its pieces in small batches from natural fibres such as cotton, wool, cashmere and silk, made by artisans who have spent generations refining their techniques, with product pages naming New York and Los Angeles. Patterns are cut from scratch. B SIDES is independent and run by its co-founders, with a studio in New York City and a store at 445 Warren Street in Hudson, New York.

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Two New York

USA · Est. 2010 · Luxury

Two New York is a minimalist designer clothing label for women, founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2010 by Monica Patel-Cohn. Before launching the line, Patel-Cohn worked in creative roles at Barneys and at Prada in Milan. With an Indian father and an Italian mother, she was inspired by the saris her family wore at her wedding in Italy and set out to create a modern, minimal take on caftans, tunics and easy dresses in handwoven fabrics. The collection includes caftans, tunics, dresses, shirts, blouses and trousers, along with scarves and accessories, designed for travel, a staycation or the city. Fabrics are designed in house or sourced from artisans and weavers across India, ranging from hand-spun khadi cotton in indigo dyes to Jamdani saris, ikat and dabu prints. Garments are made in the USA, and the caftan has been the label's signature since its first collection. Two works in small quantities to support handloom weavers and their livelihoods, treating the hand-loomed sari as a craft worth preserving. The brand's studio sits on Main Street in DUMBO and is open by appointment. Two has been featured in Vogue, Yolo Journal and The Flair Index.

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KUON

Japan · Est. 2016 · Luxury

KUON is a Japanese designer clothing label for men, founded in Tokyo in 2016 by Arata Fujiwara, with designer Shinichiro Ishibashi. Ishibashi apprenticed with an established Tokyo tailor and worked as a pattern maker at a high-end brand showing in Paris before becoming KUON's designer. The name means eternity, the remote past or the future, and permanence, reflected in its motto: "New things become old, but beautiful things remain beautiful." KUON makes jackets and coats such as the Sashiko Crest Snow Parka and Dorozome MA-1, shirts, T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, vests, hakama trousers and denim, plus caps, bags and one-of-a-kind vintage boro pieces. Everything is made in Japan. The label combines traditional boro patchwork, sashiko stitching, sakiori weaving and mud dyeing with Western clothing, revitalising vintage textiles. It upcycles boro with the Otsuchi Sashiko Project in Iwate, which supports recovery from the 2011 earthquake, and its sakiori is woven by people with disabilities at Sakkora Japan. KUON won the Tokyo Fashion Award in 2018, which took it to Pitti Uomo and the showroom.tokyo in Paris, and runs a flagship store in Tokyo.

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Reybha Couture

India · Est. 2023 · Affordable

Reybha Couture is an Indian designer, handmade clothing label for women, founded in Chennai in 2023 by Bhavani Raja. The brand was set up to blend Indo-Western aesthetics with Indian ethnic charm, and it describes its style as contemporary design intertwined with traditional elegance. Its focus is comfortable everyday and office wear, especially kurtis and dresses that carry the essence of Indian heritage while embracing modern trends. The range includes dresses, kurtis, kurti sets, dupatta sets and co-ord sets. Signature pieces include the Brown Cotton Collar Midi Dress, the Peach Cowl Neck Dress, the Solid Brown Indo-Western Dress, the Red Muslin Nyra Suit Dress, the Yellow A-Line Kota Dupatta Set and the Brown Garden Muse Co-Ord Set. Everything is made in India. The label uses 100% natural fabrics with handcrafted detailing, and each piece is designed with attention to quality and craftsmanship. Reybha Couture sells online with free shipping across India and aims to build long-lasting relationships with its customers, whom it welcomes as part of the Reybha Couture family.

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Laman

Afghanistan · Est. 2015 · Mid-range

Laman is an Afghan designer label for women, founded in Afghanistan in 2015 by Rahiba Rahimi, her brother Haseeb Rahimi and Khalid Wardak. Rahiba leads the brand as creative director. Laman creates one-of-a-kind pieces that blend Western styles with traditional Afghan elements, introducing a fresh perspective on Afghan fashion to the modern world. The range focuses on embroidered dresses and chapan coats. Signature pieces include the Desert Pearl Mirrorwork Dress, the Hand-embroidery Nooristani Woven Jewels Dress, the Balouchi Embroidered Flower Pattern Dress and the Ikat Print Chapan, many of them using hand embroidery, mirrorwork and vintage textiles. Every piece is handcrafted in Afghanistan, mainly by women artisans who have inherited their embroidery skills over generations. Laman rediscovers almost forgotten traditional crafts and combines them with contemporary designs, supporting local artisans while aiming to preserve and rejuvenate Afghanistan's cultural heritage. Laman remains an independent brand owned by its founders, and it sells its collections online to customers around the world.

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MAET

Albania · Est. 2021 · Luxury

MAET is a minimalist Albanian luxury designer clothing label for women, founded in Tirana in 2021 by Alesia Zyla. Describing itself as the first ready-to-wear sustainable fashion brand made in Albania, the label sits at the intersection of chic sophistication and bold femininity. Zyla, its founder and creative director, has said creativity was her escape growing up, and she cites Phoebe Philo, Ann Demeulemeester, the Bauhaus and Zaha Hadid as influences. The collection includes dresses, tops, trousers, skirts, tailoring and knitwear with clean, linear lines and fluid draping, offered as a core seasonless selection. Every piece is made in Albania, handcrafted by an all-woman team of seamstresses at the MAET studio in Tirana. The brand follows slow fashion principles, using fabrics such as organic linen, certified silk, regenerated wool and Econyl. Many designs are made to order and ship within 48 hours, which has brought waste and overproduction down to almost zero, and the brand aims to empower women and the next generation of Albanian designers. MAET has been profiled by 33 Magazine, and the United States is now its biggest direct-to-consumer market.

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Carla Fernández

Mexico · Est. 2002 · Luxury

Carla Fernández is a Mexican ethical designer label, founded in Mexico City in 2002 by designer Carla Fernández. Born and based in Mexico City, she creates clothing inspired by the geometric and textile richness of Mexico, guided by the motto that fashion is not ephemeral. The label is recognised internationally for preserving the textile heritage of Mexico's Indigenous communities through contemporary design. The range includes shirts, pants, dresses, tunics, ponchos, T-shirts, blouses, jumpers, capes and coats such as the Abrigo Círculos. It also offers jewellery, bags and the book Manifiesto de la Moda en Resistencia. Clothing is made in Mexico in collaboration with artisans from Indigenous communities across the country, using cotton, wool, silk and linen. Through Taller Flora, its mobile design laboratory, the label works side by side with artisans, combining traditional Mexican crafts with modern aesthetics. Carla Fernández received a Prince Claus Award for her work in ethical fashion and cultural sustainability. Her projects include a collaboration with the British Museum, and she has worked with her partner, artist Pedro Reyes. The label remains independent and founder-led.

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Chula Fashion

Vietnam · Est. 2005 · Mid-range

Chula Fashion is a hand-painted womenswear label, founded in Hanoi in 2005 by Spanish designers Diego Cortizas and Laura Fontan. The couple met at university in Madrid, where Diego studied architecture and Laura political science, and in 2003 they left their jobs in Galicia for a sabbatical year in Hanoi. In Spanish, chula means beautiful in a bold, confident way, and the label's first skirts, painted with playful sketches, were sold at Ipa-Nema in Hanoi's Old Quarter. Today Chula makes gowns, dresses, tunics, blouses, shirts, boleros, coats, capes and trousers inspired by Asian cities and culture. Pieces include the Hanoian Gate Gown, the Countdown Gown, the Hoi An Lanterns Shirt, the Tokyo Chōchin Bolero and the Anaglyph Coat. Everything is made by hand at its atelier in Hanoi's Tây Hồ District. More than 70% of its artisans are women living with a disability, a commitment that began in 2006 when the founders hired their first tailor, Duong, through the NGO Hoa Sua. Chula also works textiles from Vietnam's Mông, Thái and Cơ Tu communities into patchwork jackets and kimonos, and it showed its first themed collection at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in 2007.

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Howlin’ Knitwear

Belgium · Est. 2009 · Mid-range

Howlin' is a Belgian knitwear label for men and women, founded in Antwerp in 2009 by brothers Jan and Patrick Olyslager. The family's roots in knitwear go back to 1981, when their parents began producing traditional Scottish knitwear under the Morrison label, and Howlin', Scottish slang for smelly, gave the brothers the freedom to build something of their own while staying true to that craft. The brand sums up its approach as good yarns, strange ideas, timeless craftsmanship and a little cosmic twist. It makes playful, traditionally crafted sweaters, cardigans and knit accessories, such as the Birth Of The Cool sweater, Shaggy Bear cardigans, the Brain Freezer Hat and Bandana Lover scarves. The range also includes the Cosmic Pants, the Coach Your Jacket, T-shirts and bags like the Astro Bag. Collections are made by specialist manufacturers in Scotland, Ireland and Belgium. In Scotland, Howlin' aims to bring a fresh, slightly twisted approach to traditional knitwear, combining time-honoured techniques with new colours, patterns and ideas, using natural yarns from local Scottish mills, and each garment is individually handled. The independent, family-run brand has a store at Nationalestraat 20 in Antwerp.

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General Sleep

New Zealand · Est. 2018 · Affordable

General Sleep is an organic sleepwear and loungewear label, founded in Auckland in 2018 by Bailey Meredith and Greta van der Star. The friends met while working in fashion, Bailey for New Zealand designer Kate Sylvester and Greta as a photographer, and came up with the idea while wishing for lovely pyjamas they could keep wearing at home with a glass of wine. Their pieces are designed for nappers, loungers, dreamers and explorers, blurring the line between what we wear to bed and what we wear outside. The collection includes pyjama sets, sleep shirts, boxer shorts, slips, nightdresses, robes and bed socks in minimalist, trans-seasonal designs. Garments are designed in New Zealand and handcrafted in India, at a family-owned factory in Chennai where hand-weavers and garment makers work in one place. Fabrics are organic cotton and cotton-linen, developed by GOTS and Fairtrade certified manufacturers, and the label supports a community of artisan weavers in Southern India with a living wage. Suppliers use solar power and rainwater harvesting, and offcuts are upcycled into eye masks, scrunchies and labels. General Sleep has been stocked by MatchesFashion and featured by NZ Herald's Viva and Moss Magazine.

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Nöl Collective

Palestine · Est. 2017 · Mid-range

Nöl Collective is a Palestinian ethical, handmade clothing label, founded in Ramallah in 2017 by Yasmeen Mjalli. It grew out of her label BabyFist, launched that year, and took its current name in 2020. Using fashion as a medium for storytelling, the collective sees its garments as visual manuscripts of craft, tradition, community and land in Palestine, highlighting the hands that made them. The range includes graphic tees such as the Fairouz Tee, dresses, tops, trousers, abayas and hand-embroidered thobes, plus bandanas, scrunchies, tote bags, pouches, jewellery and home pieces. Signature pieces include tatreez vests and jackets, the Thob Skirt Sets and the Anisa hand-woven bag. Production is hyper-local, with family-run sewing workshops, artisan studios and women's cooperatives from the hills of Jerusalem to Gaza, Ramallah and Bethlehem. The label uses Palestinian tatreez embroidery by dozens of village embroiderers, handwoven cotton Majdalawi fabric from the Gaza region and natural dyes from local plants, insects and roots. Nöl Collective remains independent and founder-led, and shares its design and production process openly to reshape how people relate to their clothes and the people who make them.

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ELEVEN SIX

USA · Est. 2015 · Mid-range

Eleven Six is an American knitwear label for women, men and kids, founded in 2015 by British couple Catherine and Nick Carnevale and based in Kingston, New York. The pair launched the brand in February 2015 after a trip to Peru's Sacred Valley. Catherine, its designer, was previously Senior Director of Knitwear at Club Monaco, while Nick was a men's fashion buyer. The brand is styled ELEVEN SIX. Its range includes sweaters, cardigans, knit tanks, skirts and dresses, crochet tops and skirts, shorts, scarves and hats. Sweaters include styles like the Layla, Terra and Clara, alongside cardigans like the Isla and Sara, knit tanks like the Tia, tube skirts like the Emma, sweater dresses like the Vera and crochet pieces like the Iola top. Eleven Six has its knitwear made mainly in Peru by artisan knitters, using Peruvian alpaca and pima cotton. Its alpaca comes from two fair-trade-certified Peruvian mills, and it produces to order to reduce waste. Eleven Six is an independent, family-run brand owned and led by the Carnevales. It has a design studio and an appointment-only store in Kingston's historic Fuller Building, and it sells online and through stockists.

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Kardo

India · Est. 2013 · Mid-range

Kardo is an Indian designer, sustainable handmade clothing label for men, founded in New Delhi in 2013 by Rikki Kher. Born and raised in London to a Punjabi family, Kher moved to India in 2004 to work in garment sourcing, including for Spanish department store El Corte Inglés, before starting Kardo to slow things down and attend to the small details of menswear. It began in a small Delhi workshop with one tailor, one pattern cutter and one sewing machine. The range covers shirts, T-shirts, shorts, trousers, kurtas and jackets, plus a womenswear line and accessories. Signature pieces include the Rohit and Kunal shirts, the Alghero shorts, the Antonio trousers, the Gulab kurta and the Bodhi jacket. Everything is made in India at its own workshop with master tailor Jahid Ali. Kardo works with handloom weaving communities across India, using natural-dyed handloom, block printing, ikat, natural indigo denim, shibori and chikankari. Its ONExONE production means each garment is cut and sewn by a single tailor, and a tag names the hands involved. Kardo is stocked by Mr Porter, END. and Beams, has collaborated with Monitaly, and has been covered by The Guardian, Hypebeast and Vogue Business.

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Jane Valken

South Africa · Mid-range

Jane Valken is a South African designer, sustainable clothing label for women, based in Cape Town and run by owners Sarah Jane Bosman and Cecil Valken Bosman. Bohemian in its roots, the brand is built around colour, which it calls the backbone of the entire operation, from soft to bold prints and patterns. The couple aim to create a light-hearted space where colour and comfort come together, designed for the free-spirited and sun-loving. The range includes dresses, handloom dresses, shirts and pants, plus jewellery, scarves, ornaments and gifts. Signature pieces include the Rio Dress, the Picnic Knot Dress, the Gentle Breeze Dress, the Daphne Dress Handloom, the Rosa Dress Handloom and the High Waisted Pants Handloom. Everything is made in South Africa, in small batches it describes as made in handfuls. Its handloom and silk-cotton ranges are the embodiment of slow fashion: hand-spun, hand-stitched cottons and silk blends with motifs woven into the fabric, and a single handloom garment can take up to 27 days to complete. Other pieces use hand-carved block prints. Jane Valken sells online and from its boutique in the Alfred Mall at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

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Muse The Label

Australia · Est. 2016 · Mid-range

Muse The Label is an Australian designer clothing label for women, founded in Melbourne in 2016 by Christine and Sarah, a mother-daughter duo. Christine has sewn and made patterns for as long as her daughter can remember, while Sarah Kourim studied fashion at RMIT and worked as a womenswear designer for around ten years. The pair started by selling handfuls of pieces at markets before taking the label online during the pandemic, describing Muse as bold colour combinations, subtle femininity and architectural silhouettes. The collection includes dresses, tops, skirts, trousers, knitwear, outerwear and accessories, with effortless shapes, intricate techniques and artisanal touches. Pieces are made with local talent and accredited manufacturers in China, Bali and India, alongside in-house production by Christine in Melbourne. The label releases small, seasonless batches based on slow fashion principles, using natural fabrics such as silk, cotton and cashmere as well as deadstock fabric. The founders stay hands-on in every step, from design to answering emails and packing orders. Muse The Label has been profiled by Fashion Journal and Garmentory and is sold through stockists including Brunswick boutique Better with Friends.

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