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EcoChic Fairtrade
Welcome to our range of Eco, Sustainable, Recycled, Fair Trade Fashion that supporting communities in the developing world and here in the UK. Each of our fair trade products from Peru, Vietnam, India, Nepal and Mexico holds a story which we tell for you alongside many of our images.
Gossypium
Gossypium began in 1998 when two textile technologists, Abigail Garner & Thomas Petit, got together sharing the belief that many steps in the manufacture and sale of clothing were outdated or unnecessary and that better clothes could be designed & made in a more environmentally friendly, fairer and more direct way. They started their work with the cotton fibre and moved to India to become consultants to Agrocel, a farmers' service centre located in the cotton fields of Kutch, in western India. Their starting point was that the cotton farmer growing the cotton should get a fair price, and together with Agrocel they developed a formula for growing and trading in cotton that put the needs of the farmer first and ensured his long term environmental and economic health. The resulting product from two years of work is Agrocel's Pure & fair cotton fibre - a very high quality fibre, which is both organic & fairly traded.
GreenKnickers
We started GreenKnickers to prove that ethical choices can be funny, beautiful and sexy. The logical place to start was obviously knickers.
Machja
Our collections are mainly made with organic cotton and according to the principles of fair trade. We produce organic clothes for women, men and children. They are realized in the respect for human kind and for the environment.
Pants To Poverty
Well, it’s been a crazy, beautiful, exciting, inspiring and gorgeous journey so far! We started out as the young people’s group from Make Poverty History in 2005. Remember Live8? That massive rally in Edinburgh? Remember the white band that 8 million people bought? Well that’s where we began. We were inspired by that great man Nelson Mandela’s words when he came to London and said: “Today hundreds of millions of people lie trapped and enslaved in the prison of poverty… it’s time to set them free… Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom”. So, a little challenge then! We know many of the old ways just don’t work. We know that we’re bloody lucky to be born healthy without the daily torment of man made poverty. We know that the people in power don’t really do much about someone dying every 3 seconds because of the way they run the world. We know that Mandela’s right… the question was… what do we do about it. We looked into things a little more closely and thought, hang on! That’s pants! Pants to that… Pants to Poverty!!! Ooh, wait a minute… Suddenly our pants were born! Pants went to Glastonbury and within a day 3000 people had bought our pants!! Joss Stone, Goldie Looking Chain and even the great Michael Eavis were in our pants! Maybe you were too!?
People Tree
In order to ensure People Tree fashion meets the Fair Trade principles set out by IFAT (International Fair Trade Association), we work closely with 50 Fair Trade groups in 15 countries. That way, we can bring benefits to people and the planet at as many steps of the production process as possible – growing cotton, weaving, dyeing, embroidery, stitching etc. – helping alleviate poverty in the world's most marginalised communities. We also work hard to ensure that we pioneer ecologically sound methods of production and minimise environmental impact. Not only is most of our cotton certified organic and Fairtrade, all our clothes are dyed using safe and natural dyes. And we source as many products as we can locally, choosing natural and recycled products over toxic, synthetic and non-biodegradable materials. All our designers – both in the UK and Japan – know how to work within this set-up, which means we can produce garments that are beautiful, as well as caring. So, our collections are all the more special because they make imaginative use of local skills (handwoven fabrics, hand screen printing and hand embroidery are used a great deal), which creates as much employment as possible in areas that really need it.
