The sustainable clothing brands to add to your wardrobe in 2021

All of Anny Nord’s gorgeous shoes (based on a clean Scandi aesthetic) originate from the brand’s design studio outside the coastal town of Båstad in Sweden. The brand believes in quality over quantity and to slow things down we only present two collections per year.

Production is kept as close to home as possible in order to keep transports shorter and in turn the CO2 footprint smaller. It works closely with a few quality factories in Portugal and Spain where shoe-making is a handcraft and good and ethical working conditions are a given.

All plastic packaging has been removed, and the label works with premium leathers that are from Leather Working Group (LWG) audited members within Europe in order to ensure a supply chain of superior environmental performance.

Evarae ensure a fully transparent supply chain of materials and production. Consciously choosing materials that are made through more sustainable processes that lower their environmental impact. 95% of swimwear is made from the regenerative fabric ECONYL®, while ready to wear is crafted in 100% earth friendly fibres. RTW pieces are produced in small production runs, cutting down on waste and minimising our environmental impact.

It has a small family-run atelier in Rimini, Italy, who have over 20 years experience producing swimwear, and it can guarantee the safety & job security of those involved creating its garments.

Hunza G’s production process begins and ends locally in the UK, amidst a small group of individuals passionate about quality knit fabrics and considered swimwear construction. The crinkle fabric is knitted in a local mill in the Midlands, then processed and dried before being sent to their Central London studio where each garment is cut and made, limiting any possible unnecessary fabric consumption. They also resourcefully produce small run-off quantities of headbands and scrunchies with small cuttings of excess fabric – reducing wastage and providing a long-lasting alternative.

Created and led by couple Pavel and Teodora Lozanov, Bogdar expands on its family’s fashion legacy in Bulgaria – a country with a rich history in clothes manufacturing. It remains true to its roots with 100% of Bogdar pieces produced in their family-owned facility in Vidin, Bulgaria, with a hand-picked team of just 16 members, while building on, and contributing to the emerging style of the New East.

OMNES means all, with the brand's ethos being that we are all in this together. The brand is aware that fashion is one of the worst polluters, so even when sketching clothes, designers think of designers and fabrics that you will wear as long as possible. It's also using offcuts in accessories to minimise waste, and audits its factories in Romania, India and London to make sure they comply with Health and Safety, Environment, Business Ethics and Labour Standards.

1 People, a revolutionary Danish apparel and lifestyle brand that is globally expanding with a mindset to introduce a new meaning of sustainable luxury. Have now launched the Minimalist Edit - your solution for sustainability. 1 People have curated a variety of effortless luxurious looks, so you can be confident that you are consciously styling yourself in a timeless, ethical, high-quality fashion. Minimalism is at the heart of the brand. In their Danish DNA, that is why the Ready To Wear Edit pays attention to detail, offering ten simplistic and versatile designs that can be styled up to 30 diversified looks.This collection along with every 1 People product sold will benefit charity Business For Planet and its efforts to support the education of the social entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Launched in 2019, Cult Mia has quickly become the leading fashion e-commerce platform for designer discovery. Having gained recognition from tastemakers around the globe, Cult Mia introduces small and emerging brands that you haven’t heard of yet, but probably should have.

To celebrate its first anniversary, it is spotlighting 10 special brands, including the likes of Janashia from Tbilisi, ESSĒN from Melbourne, and VienSo from London.

This contemporary sustainable womenswear brand celebrates individuality, authenticity and sustainability. In just 13 years, Amy Powney has gone from sweeping the cutting-room floor at Mother of Pearl to taking the helm as its Creative Director. Sustainability has been a life-long passion for Amy and she’s been on a mission for Mother of Pearl to reduce its impact on the planet. Clothes are made from organic and natural materials, with a transparent supply chain, putting social responsibility, respect to animals and low-environmental impact first and foremost. Their website is set up so you can see the sustainable attributes of each piece, allowing you to see what we have achieved garment-by-garment.

The luxury footwear label believes that shoes are the foundation of a well curated wardrobe and the bases of a great outfit. Inspired by her Dutch and Australian roots, Marre Muijs aspires to simplify people’s wardrobes, by encouraging them to buy less and buy better through offering hardworking classics that are aesthetically beautiful, supremely comfortable and ethically made. Each style is a limited release, hand made in Italy, Portugal and Spain in solar-powered factories by expert artisans who have been making shoes for generations. From the leather selection, the engineering of the lasts and the hand finishing of the shoes, the entire range is handmade by people who care about every single pair produced.

The label blends active and streetwear and primarily uses two sustainable materials: recycled nylon, which is made from waste plastic water bottles, and certified organic bamboo, made from biodegradable bamboo pulp.
Designed and manufactured in the UAE, The Giving Movement - founded by British expat Dominic Nowell-Barnes - ships worldwide and donates $4 (£3.21) to charity for every item sold.

This sustainable fashion brand for men and women’s clothing specialises in plant-based and recycled fabrics such as bamboo, organic cotton and peace silk, which is made from abandoned silk worm cocoons. Other sustainable measures include reducing the impact on the planet (all packaging is recycled, recyclable and biodegradable) and a ethical workplace (ensuring fair wages and hours).

To help make your clothes last longer, & Other Stories has developed ‘With Care’, a project that includes two laundry products with oat-based formulations.Through biodegradable formulations with renewable ingredients these products are efficient yet kind to both fabrics and the environment. The new LA capsule collection is also made of sustainable fabrics such as organic cotton, Tencel Lyocell and EcoVero).

The Parisian brand is making an effort to use environmentally-friendly materials, i.e. those with a truly minimal environmental impact, such as organic cotton, recycled polyester, linen, lyocell as well as certified materials. At the Solitaire Paris boutique, they resell pieces left over from shoots and test fittings to practice circular fashion, and profits are donated to DEMAIN (helping children whose prospects are unfairly disadvantaged). The aim is to create a new collection of 100% eco-friendly pieces, as well as a systematic reduction in packaging, reconstruction of our tote bags, and fastidious commitment to being eco-friendly at every level of our operations.

Over the next three years, GANNI has pledged to focus on four areas, the planet, people, the product and prosperity. These goals include reducing CO2 emulsions by 30% per kg of clothing, a gender equality policy, using more sustainable fabrics and investing in innovative projects to support the planet.

For Earth Day, the brand is donating 20% of sales made today to the reef restoration foundation in support of a sustainable future for our reef and sea life. The collection is produced entirely in Bali, painting close relationships with local factories and employees who have worked with the brand for almost a decade.

The brand currently has 300+ earth-friendly wearable products, and another 300+ clean beauty products available online. The wearable collections include ethical products made by hand, to previously loved vintage, to styles designed with eco-conscious materials and processes. Since launching in April 2019 these styles have reduced our global warming impact by up to 80%, and to date have helped save 50,000 kilograms of C02 from entering the atmosphere.

The MARFA STANCE concept is based on buildable, adaptable, reversible and personalised clothing. Each piece can be worn in multiple ways and with multiple functions, promoting a buy less and buy better approach. Unique, buildable elements are available in each collection to evolve key styles, offering the ability to update and sustain your signature wardrobe season upon season. In addition the collection has a modular element where if a customer buys multiple items from the collection, the pieces can button into each other and create new ways to wear for different times of the year. Seasonless, timeless design and colour palette encourage forever wear, focusing on the garment's longevity and functionality as an investment piece.

Baum Und Pferdgarten has revealed a CSR strategy which includes clean water and sanitation, reduced inequalities, responsible consumption and production and life on land amongst many other issues. Currently 40% of their SS20 collection is responsible and the aim is to increase this percentage each season. BuP is planning to meet the goals in 2024, with a minimum 65% of their collections will be 100% recycled or organic.

SAND’s collection is created using post-industrial recycled polyester from plastic water bottles. The process begins with recovering the plastic bottles in Italy and then completely producing the yarn and the fabrics in Italy also. This guarantees that the 100% Recycled fabric Made in Italy strictly follows the prescription of the Global Recycled Standard. During the weaving and finishing process, only chemicals allowed by the Global Organic Textile Standard are used.

Le Kasha mission is to make beautiful & timeless clothing suitable for every place and every season, usuing only natural and noble material, at Le Kasha Eco label factory. Le Kesha’s new 'Lin de Voyage' collection is a complete summer capsule made of 100% Organic Linen.

Stella celebrates Earth Day’s 50th anniversary by hosting an Ocean Outdoor screen takeover in London’s Picadilly Circus until midnight 26th April. With the capital completely empty, it highlights optimistic messaging and is a symbol of how, when humanity pauses, nature continues.

Launched on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Zalando’s latest sustainable fashion campaign brings attention to the company’s aim to become a sustainable fashion platform with a net-positive impact on people and the planet. Titled “A collaborative approach. Zalando on sustainability.”, this campaign stars Zalando employees, who are passionate advocates of sustainability in their personal lives. They are captured wearing the platform’s sustainable partners including Veja, Mother of Pearl and Gestuz.

Their recently launched Doing Good Stuff denim collection has partnered with the cleanest, most sustainable factories, using only a fraction of the water and energy used in traditional denim production. In addition to cutting water and energy, they are reducing their environmental impact by donating the toxic by-products to make bricks for building projects in local communities.

Away that Day's bikinis are made from recycled ocean plastic and fishing nets, a fabric called called ECONYL. It is an initiative that Aquafil founded in 2013, whose purpose is to clean the oceans and seas of marine litter such as derelict fishnets responsible for the needless death of marine animals creating a regenerated Nylon. The brand also has eco packaging and compostable mailing bags and pioneers small family owned factories to ensure they are aware of the entire process and this is as ethical as possible.

Sheep Inc. makes weaters out of New Zealand ZQ-certified Merinowool, which is spun into Cashwool® yarn in a North Italian yarn mill that runs on 100% renewable energy. Each sweater is 100% biodegradable, but designed to last a lifetime. An NFC tag is also sewn onto the hem, and thanks to its unique serial number, you can scan it and track your sweater’s carbon footprint.

PLF is a socially conscious sleepwear brand, which was started by Karen Fowler and actress Robin Wright. Through employment and skilled trade initiatives, the collections help support women living in the Congo and other conflict regions of Africa.

The designer only produces in small runs to avoid waste. Every garment that Isabelle Fox produces is made 100% ethically in the UK. In order to honour this promise while also keeping price points accessible, Isabelle Fox doesn't wholesale its collections, remaining a direct-to-consumer brand so clients and customers don't pay more as a result of retailer mark-ups.

Operating from their London Atelier, BITE make and produce everything on-site in their east London factory space, using only natural, certified organic fabrics with a record of social and environmental responsibility.  The collection consists of a maximum of 20 fixed and updated styles each season, an evolutionary archive which is now stocked at over 10 global retailers.

The Swedish fashion brand works hard on being innovative and sustainable in all aspects of the business. This includes the launch of its Re:Design collection, made of up cycled garments from pas seasons, which means using fewer resources and extending the products’ lifeline. In 2017, it also launched WE Women by Lindex, to take action for gender equality in the supply chain, and work to create more equal opportunities.

Stella McCartney is always exploring ways to become more sustainable, whether that is in its fabric (organic cotton, recycled nylon and polyester, vegetarian leather) or auditing its suppliers and manufacturers to ensure social sustainability.

TOMS, famous for its one for one giving policy and yearly animal initiatives, helps provide shoes, sight, water and safer birth services to people in need. TOMS has also launched its ‘Stand for Tomorrow’ initiative, to invest in tackling current issues such as homelessness, female empowerment and social impact.

Rêve En Vert is a luxury yet sustainable fashion platforms that stocks over 30 brands who all adhere to the motto: organic, remade, local and fair. Everything from the clothing to the packaging is ethically sourced, and even the office environment is a ‘green’ office.

Since 1991, People Tree has partnered with Fair Trade producers, garment workers, artisans and farmers in the developing world to produce ethical and eco fashion collections.