We Know You're Going to Love These Brands
It may seem difficult to find ethical and sustainable handbag brands, since most handbags are contributing to fossil fuel emissions and usually use sweatshops to mass-produce them. Here's some good news, you don't have to look far to find good looking, sustainable totes and handbags. All the brands you'll see here are slow sustainable and are pretty transparent about their labor conditions.
Baggu prides itself on its sustainability efforts. It has implemented a way to use a fully accessible simple tote to do all of your daily errands and hold your personal belongings. Some of their most popular bags are reusable and stylish shopping bags. They take into account design and durability to make sure that your bags last as long as possible. Baggu design their bags with as few materials as possible to make their bags simple and safe. As well as being environmentally friendly, Baggu stays transparent with their ethical labor practices.
Cuyana pledges to keep their practices sustainable and ethical. They recognize that there has been an increase in mass produced clothing, and they have made efforts to produce less clothing in honor of that. They pledge to produce responsibly and smartly. Most of their factories are small family-owned businesses that they support, and they always make sure the labor practices are ethical before producing clothing.
Corkor specializes in making faux-leather from cork, ensuring that the materials are animal and cruelty free. They pledge that all of their practices incorporate luxury vegan promises. By using mostly plant based materials, they're being environmentally and sustainably responsible. Some things they avoid are toxic dyes, harmful microfibers (like polyester), exploitation of their workers, and mass-producing. Instead, they assure their labor practices are ethical, and they design their handbags to be durable, making handmade items in small batches.
Although Ms. Bay uses fish-leather in their products, they live by their promise of sustainability and ethical practices. Their production supports small communities and businesses, and they're extremely transparent with their ethical labor practices. Ms. Bay make sure to stay in touch with all of their production factories throughout the whole production process. In fact, they even visit their factories every so often to see how things are going. All of their materials are simple and natural, and they stay away from synthetic, harmful microfibers and dyes.
Angela Roi believes in being able to incorporate everything into the item you purchase without compensating the environment. They even state on their website, "Angela Roi believes personal style should not come at the expense of personal values." They believe in creating timeless staple pieces using ethical and natural materials, that won't make you feel guilty about buying.
One thing that makes Mariclaro stand out among other handbag brands is that they actually produce their bags from recycled and repurposed vintage car and aviation interiors. Each design is unique, and all of their materials are recycled. Therefore, they are unable to mass-produce seeing as each bag is handmade differently. They work extremely hard to cut each interior out of car junk yards, and then refurbish them to make them into accessible handbags. On their website they state that "Mariclaro received the Globe Award for Environmental Excellence for best green Canadian product."
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