Turning Waste into Worth We are tackling fashion’s pollution problem by supporting designers and brands in offering luxury sustainable materials, textile services, educational workshops and creative consultancy. We work with cutting-edge technologies and utilise organic and waste material sources including algae, fungi, food waste, bacteria and textile waste.
We are sending South Asian fashion round in circles... Welcome to Circular Threads. We exist to make preloved clothing your first choice, whatever the occasion. As your go-to destination for buying and selling preloved South Asian fashion, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to discover curated fashion (both designer and non-designer) at a fraction of the retail price. We hand-select good condition, fashion forward pieces - to ensure...
Our mission is to eliminate textile waste to landfill and incineration by enabling closed loop recycling.
Loom is creating a circular hub for makers, artists, and art studios to take advantage of waste materials from movie studios which can repurposed and made into art
An online consignment and up-cycling solution for South Asian clothing - marketed directly to South Asians to help them redefine their consumption patterns and have access to the circular economy.
Rent everything but the baby! Baboodle is the new way to kit out your baby. We are the UK's first baby equipment subscription service, offering you access to the full kit and caboodle of the best products for you baby, for as long or as little as you need!Our mission is to make parenting easier. There is nothing more daunting (and financially draining) than a baby kit list. And nothing more frustrating than using almost none of it and realising...
We design stylish and durable footwear for fast-growing feet. Our playful children’s shoes are made from sustainable materials and when they outgrow them, we’ll even recycle them for you. We believe the best way to increase children’s awareness of the environment and help them feel empowered to drive change is through playful and fun storytelling. So alongside our children’s footwear, we pen beautiful stories about Pip & Henry, a...
Kidsie is a mobile app and circular marketplace where parents can sell, shop and donate all preloved baby & children’s items locally within their community! We are a new platform - imagine a friendly kid-centric mix of Facebook Marketplace, Next Door and Depop all from the ease of your mobile phone! Shop, sell or donate baby & kids clothing, toys, furniture, shoes, books, baby & toddler essentials and maternity. Kids newborn to 10+...
Don't Shop, Swap is a gamified clothes swapping platform, where the next generation comes to share clothes. Don't Shop, Swap allows you to trade your unwanted clothes for digital tokens called 'Swap Coins' to spend on preloved fashion. £140M of textile waste goes to landfills every year. We exist to claim that lost value back.
A curated marketplace for emerging sustainable fashion to sell their garments, customers can also to connect designers, to have their used/damaged/unwanted garments upcycled/repaired or altered. Seamlessly search through ranges of carefully curated sustainable one-of-a-kind handmade garments from some of the brightest emerging ethical x sustainable designers. Support Sustainable Designers: supporting emerging ethical x sustainable designers,...
Eco friendlier, recyclable shoes for children
Why is it that only 1% of people on second-hand resale platforms resell and everyone else is a buyer? Because a listing takes 10-28 minutes to post & has a 7% chance of success. ALYS opens resale to the mass market by making the resale process super easy and 30X faster. Users log-in and instantly have access to a product gallery of all their past purchases in a slick format, with shortcuts for them to resale/donate on multiple platforms at...
Stigma breaking, planet-saving hemp underwear, created to empower women everywhere to be conscious, confident and comfortable!
A little collective of two, with a mission to create contemporary, timeless wardrobe staples. We buy nothing new, and throw nothing away. Our business was born out of our love of sewing and a need to find an alternative to fast fashion and its impact on both people and planet. We source vintage/repurposed fabrics from our UK suppliers to create bespoke garments. All of our styles are made-to-order to ensure we are accommodating to all body...
Last Yarn is a marketplace connecting designers and creatives to surplus fabrics from fashion mills, manufacturers and studios. We are a community marketplace solution to textile overproduction in the fashion industry. We are female founder led, determined to help lead the transition to a mainstream circular textile system that will deliver better societal, economic, and environmental outcomes. We see fabric recycling as major B2B...
Kola Project is a circular product marketplace that connects circular designers with sustainability-conscious customers. We have paired it with a reverse supply chain that accepts used items we sell from our customer and put back into the market. We are 100% waste-free. Kola Project is a new circular economy model with a platform to visualise the entire product lifecycle, track and orchestrate flows of products, and recover and reuse used...
Define or upload your project criteria, including logistical info, legal documents, desired sustainability attributes, technical properties and RSL. Choose material from a curated selection of vetted suppliers, or onboard your own suppliers / innovators and assess according to your criteria. Gain access to advanced material insights including sustainability breakdown, technical properties, testing results and marketing material. Share...
The home for artists and customers looking to upcycle their clothes, jewellery, shoes and accessories. We are a collective of former fashion industry insiders and creatives, looking to give designers a platform and re-engaging fashion consumers with their existing wardrobes. We believe that changing the world by recycling your fashion is possible. Reincarnation Studio is on a mission to reinvent the way we discard clothes, shop fashion and...
We rescue surplus fabric to make sustainable sourcing effortless. Fabric Society is a marketplace for sustainable fabrics, connecting fashion brands, designers and fabric enthusiasts to high-end luxury textiles which would otherwise end up in landfill. We rescue surplus textiles to make sustainable sourcing effortless. We connect fashion brands, designers and fabric enthusiasts to high-end luxury textiles which would otherwise end up in...
Redefining The Traditional Sample Sale.
The Sample Room is a members only online platform offering sample sale prices on independent designers and boutiques’ previous season items.
Through our platform we promote zero waste and a more circular fashion business model.
Leather is the world’s most environmentally destructive textile and a $500 billion market. The world needs a better leather!
PU or PVC synthetic leathers are not the answer: they add to our plastic problem because they can’t biodegrade or be recycled.
Treekind can be recycled or turned into compost. It uses less than 1% of the water in leather production. It is non-toxic, estimated carbon-negative, and contains ZERO plastic.
We are currently...
100 % recyclable waterproof fabric for outdoor clothing, shoes and sports equipment.
Amphitex is a sustainable and 100% recyclable alternative to traditional waterproof breathable textiles, heavily used in the outdoor apparel industry. All the layers within Amphitex are being developed from the same source material, to create an innovative mono-material waterproof, making it very easy to recycle, unlike most on the market. The...
Wolf & Badger provide an online platform which takes the effort out of finding and sourcing sustainably and ethically produced jewellery, fashion, accessories, homeware and beauty, without compromising on quality and design.
They are looking to create a global community built of local brands in order to create a more human-centred approach to retail. Working with over 1000 designers across the world, they ensure the majority of sales...
Fashion items from recycled materials using sustainable processes. For us, being sustainable is not just about the fabric. It's about the thread, the labelling, the packaging and the pay and working conditions from start to finish. All this, and the fabric, helps make a garment sustainable.
RECYCLED MATERIALS. We use recycled materials such as fabric cuttings destined for landfill. Added to this we make use of ‘abandoned’ yarn or dead stock...
Spintex artificially spins the highest performance silk fibres available, through a spider inspired process. 1000x more energy efficient than synthetic plastic fibres, we use no hazardous chemicals with water our only by-product.
These fibres are finding use in sustainable fashion textiles, but due to their high-performance will also address issues in other markets for advanced technical textiles, including lightweight composites for aerospace...
We build agile farming systems to empower more sustainable cotton supply chains
We’re helping cotton farmers build more future-proof farms without harming the planet.
Cotton is the most widely used natural fibre in the fashion textile industry. It is also regarded as the world’s thirstiest and dirtiest crop. Demand for cotton fibre is increasing and there are presently no sustainable ways to produce it at scale - a problem compounded by...
KYnergy® Infrared embedded fabrics feature specially designed fibres which contain carefully selected natural minerals. These minerals are selected for their ability to absorb otherwise wasted energy from the wearer and surrounding light. The energy is then converted into a targeted region of the infrared light spectrum, which causes an array of positive biological effects. We target a specific area of infrared because of the very specific...
E.L.V. DENIM takes unwanted jeans destined for landfill and turns them into modern sophisticated pieces. Adhering to an ethos of zero waste, the material used has zero impact on the environment.
Working with local ateliers in London, they ensure that each jean has the lowest carbon footprint possible whilst supporting local businesses and communities. At E.L.V. DENIM environmental and social sustainability are at the heart of the business, and...
Fair on People, Fair On The Environment
Good design means circularity. Quality clothes that last, that are seasonless and forward thinking. Conscious clothing needs to be modern, we want to look good without comprising our ethics. Fanfare is a sustainable British fashion brand that sets out to create powerful, positive change in the fashion industry. Originally launched in 2018 under the name ‘Fabric For Freedom’ by Esther Knight. The first...
Dress in protest with Birdsong
For women who expect more from their wardrobe, we design original wardrobe staples that are ethical, sustainable and made by talented women paid a fair wage
Ananas Anam, the makers of Piñatex®, an innovative natural textile made from waste pineapple leaf fibre is now a Certified B Corporation®.
The leaves are the by-product of existing agriculture, and their use creates an additional income stream for farming communities. Piñatex® is a natural, sustainably-sourced, cruelty free material.
"Piñatex® is one of those rare products of design thinking that hits all the sustainability buttons at...
Bundlee is a baby clothing rental subscription service to stop waste and promote sustainability. They give baby clothes, not just one new lease of life, but many.
Creating pigments from plant and food waste to create paints and textile powders.
KAIKU is a material innovation startup committed building a sustainable future. KAIKU transforms agricultural waste from everyday plants, like avocados, into a high value resource – natural plant-based colorants. We're partnering with nature to envision fashion and consumer products that don't cost the earth. Our plant-based colorants and inks can be used with a...
Only buy things once. Love things that last.
It's an idea that extends far beyond Buy Me Once, but it defines everything we do.
We only sell long-lasting products that we as a team can stand behind. To ensure everything is made to last, we examine the products themselves, their manufacturing story, and develop meaningful relationships with the makers. We only work with people we trust.
We offer exclusive warranties on products we truly believe...
