Conscious Fashion Business Directory
Discover our curation of sustainable fashion businesses on a mission to create a more circular and responsible fashion future.
Jump to: Mending & Repair Businesses | Design & Production Services | Secondhand & Rental Fashion | Upcycled Fashion | Ultra-Slow Fashion Brands | Slow Fashion Stylists & Coaches | Sustainable Fashion Consultancies | PR & Marketing Agencies | Non Profit & Advocacy Organizations
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
Old Flame Mending
Services: darning, tailoring, repairs, visible mending
Location: Pittsburgh, PA | USA (accepts mail-ins)
Design & Production 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
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 & Reworked 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!
PICNICWEAR
With the tagline “future vintage over future garbage”, Picnicwear is redefining upcycled clothing. Their heirloom-quality items are handmade by artisans in New York City and throughout the USA who are paid living wages. Almost every piece is one of a kind, and make to last — when you buy an item from Picnicwear, you are investing in a piece that will last with proper care and love.
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.
Slow Fashion Stylists & Coaches
Jenna Flood (Ironic Minimalist)
Offerings:
Style Consultations
Wardrobe Audits & Reorganization
Personal Shop & Wardrobe Refresh
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.
PR, Marketing & Brand Agencies
CFC Member
Pink Sheep Publicity
Pink Sheep Publicity is a forward-thinking PR and digital marketing agency specializing in serving ethical, sustainable, and slow fashion brands. Our holistic approach blends public relations, affiliate marketing, social media, digital marketing, and content creation to drive growth, visibility, and revenue. We craft tailored strategies that help independently owned brands overcome monetization challenges and achieve profitability faster, making us a go-to partner for the fashion industry's next big names.
Non Profit & Advocacy Organizations
Sustainable Fashion Week Chicago
Sustainable Fashion Week Chicago provides year-round ethical, environmental, and educational fashion programming leading up to its annual 9-day Sustainable Fashion Week event, which brings people, neighborhoods, and industries together across Illinois to reimagine fashion.