Who made my clothes?
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Ethical and sustainable fashion

Who made my clothes?

Through our collections, we want to create a brand that will help promote the expertise in the textile industry, the appreciation of manufacture, and the transmission of practices and techniques, that is, put people at the center of the entire production process.

In the age of mass consumption, unfortunately, tragic news about the apparel manufacturing industry are on the headlines. The biggest human catastrophe to date in the textile industry is the collapse of the Rana Plaza on April 24, 2013 in Bangladesh. The casualty figures: 1,138 dead and 2,500 injured. Incredibly, even though evacuation instructions were given, the managers decided to continue production.

This building housed the apparel of world famous brands ... Surveys of the working conditions around the world of this type of workers are on the rise. The results are overwhelming: no holiday-time, dismissals in case of illness, handling of chemicals without protection, no social security cover, no right to exercise their right to strike or belong to a trade union, exploitation of child labor ...

Today, a worker earns only 8 cents for every soccer t-shirt sold for 90 euros in stores. This types of circumstances abound. Let us ask the question: who makes my clothes? Transparency is the key that guarantees that the article you buy has been designed in the right social and environmental conditions.

How are Bhangara hemp bags and accessories made?

A Fair Trade women organization who trains and hires only women

This textile manufacturing company was founded by women who escaped the unsustainable working conditions of the textile industry. Since 2008, they have welcomed and trained young women who are socially disadvantaged, single, widowed, separated or fleeing forced marriage. So far, 280 women have been trained there in embroidery, cutting, making, dyeing and composition of bags and textile accessories to help them become independent and eventually, be able to found after 4 years of training, their own workshop. They are Fair Trade certified. 

A small family tailoring business

The second workshop we work with is a small family business run by a Nepalese couple. They currently have three seamstresses aged between 40 and 60 years old. Affected by a competition that offers products of dubious quality but at a very competitive price, they have had to lay off 7 employees in the last 10 years. The remaining three, with 10 to 20 years of working experience in the sewing trade, are capable of conceiving and executing complex designs with skill. Our aim is to provide them with an increasing production volume so their workshop can regain the full activity of yesteryear.