Conscious Fashion DIRECTORY
a collection of slow fashion small businesses and professionals working to create a more circular and responsible fashion future
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Mending & Repair Businesses
CFC Partner
Coblrshop - on-demand repair service
This Boston-based female-founded startup is on a mission to make repair mainstream. While repair is the most sustainable option, and usually the less expensive option, it has also been the most difficult one, but not anymore! Coblrshop is changing the game on restoring your beloved items by making this option on-demand and as easy as online shopping.
How it works: First, you can order repair services on their site — from full repairs to à la carte options like heel restoration. Coblrshop will send you a mailer and prepaid shipping label and you'll drop off your shoes at your nearest UPS drop off site. Two weeks later, you'll receive your restored shoes back, looking good as new!
Care and repair services: Shoe repair and restoration on women's flats, heels, and boots and men's dress shoes and boots; shoe shining; handbag repair & other a la carte options
Location: Boston, MA | USA
Hidden Opulence
Services: alterations, mending, repairs, tailoring, upcycling
Location: Portland, OR | USA
Clothes Doctor
Services: alterations, cleaning & laundry, customizations, repairs & replacements, restorations
Location: United Kingdom (door-to-door service)
Make Nu
Services: alterations, customizations, restorations, repairs
Location: United Kingdom (door-to-door service)
Repair Rebels
Services: clothing, handbag, & shoe repairs and restorations
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Old Flame Mending
Services: darning, tailoring, repairs, visible mending
Location: Pittsburgh, PA | USA (accepts mail-ins)
More Mending Businesses
Little Cliff
(St. Louis, MO | USA)
Splendid Stitches
(London, UK)
MendIt (app)
(pilot currently operating in Houston, TX)
Mend Assembly
(Totnes, Devon, England)
Sojo (app)
(London, United Kingdom)
The Artful Menders
(Chesham, United Kingdom)
Fix That Shirt (app)
(Paris, France)
design & Manufacturing services
CFC Member
Ceres Monae
Ceres Monae is a sustainable luxury fashion and lifestyle brand based in Dallas, TX, specializing in creative design, product development, and exclusive, high-quality products. They provide premium private label services tailored to retailers of all sizes and also offers made-to-order options, providing a flexible solution for smaller brands. With made-to-order, items are produced only as they’re ordered, helping to minimize waste.
CFC Member
The Blue Poppy Project
The Blue Poppy Project is a heartfelt venture in slow fashion, based in Sammamish, Washington. They are dedicated to connecting independent labels with a community of mindful consumers who appreciate unique, artisanal, and handcrafted pieces. Their mission is to offer a carefully curated selection of exclusive items, each crafted with care and available in limited quantities. At Blue Poppy, they celebrate the beauty of slow fashion and strive to provide distinctive pieces that resonate with those who value quality and individuality. Join them in supporting craftsmanship and embracing a more thoughtful approach to style.
CFC Member
Buno Behen
The Buno Behen Co-Design Programme is your gateway to ethical and artisanal garment production. They specialize in connecting your brand with India's finest crafts and sustainable practices. From design to production, they handle it all, offering low MOQs and access to a network of independent artisans and collectives.
Unsure where to start? You can reach out to Buno Behen and they'll help tailor their services to fit your brand's needs, making the process easy and straightforward.
CFC Partner
Visionise
From concept to final stitch, Visionise offers a vast range of design and manufacturing services for responsible fashion brands. Not only can Visionise streamline your design, development, and production processes, but they can connect your apparel label with transparent, ethical, and sustainable suppliers around the world (with low MOQ's) to save you time and the headache of finding manufacturing partners you can trust. You can book individual services or entire fashion project packages, depneding on your needs.
If you're not sure where to begin or what services would be best for your brand, you can book a free chat with Visionise to explore your options.
Services: Fashion Design, Sustainable Fabric Sourcing, Ethical Manufacturing, Mentoring Programs, Website Design, Marketing Program
SHOP: Print Designs, Design Templates, Wholesale Templates, E-Commerce Templates, Branded Eco Packaging
Secondhand & Rental Fashion
CFC Member
revu
Revu is a pre-loved formal and bridesmaid dress boutique. With a curated selection of dresses available for rent and for purchase, our mission is to provide an affordable and sustainable alternative to expensive, once-worn occasionwear.
Upcycled & Rework Fashion
CFC Member
Old Gold
At Old Gold they're passionate about circularity, eco-consciousness, slow fashion, sustainable clothing & textiles – and they're even more passionate about VINTAGE! For them, every piece tells a story. And many pieces were lovingly handmade by someone's dear granny or great-granny. When you shop at Old Gold, you help to keep great-granny's dresses out of the landfill!
CFC Member
Crooked Stitch Vintage
With the philosophy that “the world wants ever-changing style fast; the world doesn't need new clothes from scratch", Crooked Stitch Vintage is a New Jersey-based business that takes vintage garments and reimagines them into new styles, or brings them back for a bit of nostalgia!
Ultra-Slow Fashion Brands
CFC Member
Maiden Mary Designs
Maiden Mary Designs is a bespoke fashion brand offering garments sewn with natural fiber fabrics and upcycled textiles. Each garment is made to order and catered to custom sizing based on the customer's unique measurements.
Their garments are designed with intention for longevity in both quality of the piece and timeless style.
CFC Member
Kashesh
Kashesh creates wearable art that harnesses the power of garments as a tool for self-expression. Through weaving impactful words into every garment, the ultra-slow fashion brand creates capsule collections that make a statement, expressing your values, creativity, and story.
The label's limited collections are meticulously handcrafted from recycled fabrics using a handloom, with exquisite craftsmanship and devoted attention to detail from concept through to delivery. While Kashesh's garments are made with time-honored traditions and techniques, the brand is also set out to disrupt the status quo.
CFC Member
Devinto
Devinto is a slow fashion made-to-order brand that focuses on classic design with vintage inspired collections all made in house in Cape Cod, Massachusetts using eco-minded fabrics.
Natural Dye Houses
Green Matters Natural Dye Co. (USA)
Green Matters works with designers and makers to produce the color they desire from plant materials
Services: even immersion dyeing, industrial tie dye, shibori, bundle dyeing and ombre | Available for: yarn, piece, and garment dyeing
Botanical Inks (UK)
Botanical Inks is an artisan studio specializing in small-scale natural dyeing projects for designers and brands aligned with a soil-to-soil approach to design and productions
Services: Fabric dyeing and yarn + thread dyeing for natural fibers and fabrics
Anuprerna (India)
In-house custom dyeing unit working with Azo-free GOTS-certified dyes and natural vegetable dye options
Services: yarn dyeing and piece dyeing; restrict printing/dyeing techniques including shibori and tie-dye
ColorStorms (USA)
Naturally dyed yarn made in the USA. Yarns are dyed with plants and bugs by Linda Jennings in her home studio in Maryland. Linda also offers natural dyeing classes and patterns & kits.
“Woolpaca” naturally dyed yarn: 50% wool and 50% alpaca
Meritime naturally dyed yarn: 50% merino wool and 50% seacell
100% naturally dyed alpaca yarn
Naturally dyed fleece packs (cleaned and conditioned, ready to be combed or carded)
sat-su-ma Studio (Turkey)
sat-su-ma produces natural dyes, dyeing kits, and naturally dyed linen or organic cotton fabrics in a range of colorways.
Colors include lemon, coral, cinnamon, chocolate, orchid (purple), gold, cherry, and mist (gray).
We Are KAL (India)
We Are KAL offers a collection of handspun yarns: Nomadic Fibers and Journey Yarn.
Nomadic Fibers yarn: one-ply hand-spun 100% sheep wool (shorn once a year in July from the sheep of the Kharnak nomads) yarn spun on "phang" spindles by their Ladakhi team.
Journey yarn: two-play hand-spun lambswool spun by their team in Himachal Pradesh or Eri silk yarn naturally dyed by their team in Assam.
Slow Fashion Stylists & Coaches
CFC Member
Biekaleidoscope
Biek is a seasoned fashion designer turned fashion artist and wardrobe curator who teaches you to buy less, choose better, and make your clothing stories last. As your “Wardrobe Whisperer”, Biek empowers you to make conscious clothing choices that fit you and your lifestyle — and is on a mission to help you become the best version of yourself through the art of fashion.
Offerings: Your Confident Closet program is Biek's 1:1 styling program
Armelle Ferguson (Sustainably Styled)
Offerings:
Sustainably Styled: 1:1 coaching, introduction, 8 check-ins, and follow-up session
Kamila Boudová
Offerings:
Personalized slow fashion coaching to help participants realize the full potential of their closets
Jenna Flood (Ironic Minimalist)
Offerings:
Style Consultations
Wardrobe Audits & Reorganization
Personal Shop & Wardrobe Refresh
Textile-to-Textile recycling
FABSCRAP
FABSCRAP offers convenient pickup and textile recycling for businesses in New York City and Philadelphia
Rewoven Africa
Cape Town-based innovation project re-imagining textile waste by recycling off-cut fabric, end of roll fabric, unsold inventory, clothing rejects, and corporate branded uniforms
Recover
Company using a closed loop mechanical recycling process to turn textile 'waste' into maximum quality recycled fiber
Sustainable fashion Consultancies & Incubators
Global Sustainable Network
Global Sustainable Network (GSN) is a strategic sustainability agency focused on guiding visionary people and brands toward sustainability through tailored services, including sustainability action plans, greenhouse gas inventory and reduction baseline reports, sustainable clothing designer training programs, policy alignment, transparency reports and communicating sustainability progress.
Factory45
Offers training program for new sustainable fashion brands which is a brand accelerator, mentorship, mastermind, and one-on-one support wrapped up into one.
Global Fashion Marketplace
Global Fashion Marketplace is an international business development agency supporting fashion businesses to reach new international markets. Their mission is to empower and equip ethical businesses to compete in the global marketplace.
Custom Collaborative
Nonprofit offering a 14-week Training Institute as well as management consulting, mentorship, technical assistance, advanced training and professional equipment to graduates.
Swapping Resources
Nuw
Virtual peer-to-peer clothes swapping app; can ship clothing or meet up in person; available to use in the UK
Lucky Sweater (formerly Isthmus App)
An online community clothing swap; every Tuesday community members can hang out together and browse thousands of slow fashion items up for trade.
High End Hammy Downs
Australia’s first personalised exchange platform for kids’ second hand clothes. A digital clothes swap for parents that want to get rid of kids’ outgrown hand-me-downs and receive high quality second hand clothes in exchange.
Swap Nation
Peer-to-peer exchange platform to swap clothes, accessories, and shoes; based in the UK
ThisForThat
Peer-to-peer swapping platform to exchange clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, cosmetics, and more; based in India