“Our collections are inspired by real people, urbanites who love culture and nature,”
Grandt Mason Originals vary in style for men and women from boots and ballet flats to sandals and lace-ups
MILCH has been fashioning—and refashioning—its gamine designs for the past 15 years, using techniques that are grounded in environmental and social ethics.
Flexible, anti-microbial wool, crotch gussets, secret underarm zipper vents and discrete reflective tape under the collar make it perfect to bike in, but the fabric, cut and style make the suit perfect to look good at work.
“A fairly made, sustainable suit, while the end-product is quite expensive, can empower working people who make it and foster sustainable textile technologies and methodologies,”
SF-based R3DNA operates a materials-recovery program that diverts a ton of leather and foam from landfills each month.
The fabric used in the collection is a specially-developed blend of viscose and a fiber called Repreve, which is made of post consumer recycled plastic bottles. The jackets in the line contain a minimum of 60 percent post-consumer waste materials and the pants contain at least 53 percent post consumer waste materials. Both the suits and the material they’re made from are manufactured in China, but H Brothers took special care to partner with a factory it felt would uphold its ethical and environmental standards.
Sword & Plough views its dedication to the environment as a mirror to their work with the military.
Veleco was created when founders Jamie and John were unable to find a truly sustainable and ethical line of cyclewear in the world.
“I had already been to see a lot of factories and was shocked to see the amount of fabric that was being wasted, so I decided to contact them all and offer to buy it off them.”
