The Ultimate Guide to More Ethical and Sustainable Office Workwear

Mila.Vert’s knitted long sleeved round neck dress is light and airy, providing a luxuriously comfortable feel all year round. This classic dress can be dressed up with heels or down with cute sneaks. The Slovenia-based brand wants to make desirable clothing, decreasing the ethical and environmental issues that the fashion industry represents.

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Neu Nomads is a Brooklyn-based more sustainable women’s fashion brand, offering loungewear and travel essentials. It is female owned and operated, and works every day to create beautiful, wearable clothing that leaves a lighter footprint on the environment.

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Nina Rein is a German brand that creates more sustainable business attire in Europe under fair conditions. The brand's aesthetic is clean, feminine, and colourful, and each piece includes little details everyone loves.

Find most items in sizes 34-44.

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Dressarte Paris is a custom-made clothing label that curates unique pieces for a worldwide clientele. It sources luxurious surplus and lower-impact fabrics to create a wonderfully chic, more sustainable wardrobe.

Its products are made-to-order, and you can choose from existing sizes or enter in your own measurements for a custom order that not only minimises textile waste but celebrates all sizes.

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Dress shirts made from 100% organic cotton. Yes, please. CARPASUS is a Swiss menswear brand that makes fine shirts, ties, socks, and pocket squares. CARPASUS uses GOTS certified cotton and manufactures locally to reduce its carbon footprint. It also traces its supply chain and ensures workers are paid a living wage.

Find most products in EU sizes 36 to 46.

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We love a man who wears pink. This modern take on a classic style is wonderfully done in 100% GOTS-certified cotton and woven in one of Europe’s finest mills.

Tuckerman & Co makes premium dress shirts using the finest organic cotton, Italian fabric, and expert New England craftsmanship.

Find the collection in sizes 15 to 17.

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Comfortable, breathable, and perfectly suitable for home or office work. ISTO’s linen shirt is this plus the ethics. The brand uses organic materials, and is incredibly transparent in showing you the true cost of your clothes when you go to purchase a piece for your wardrobe.

The range is available in XS-XL.

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Citizen Wolf is bringing all the at-home professionalism (and comfort) you need. The brand uses revolutionary technology to give you high-quality custom fit t-shirts. Citizen Wolf is so confident in its t-shirts that it guarantees they’ll be the best you’ve ever worn. After capturing your customisations, the brand hand makes each tee in Sydney from certified sustainable fabrics like cotton, hemp, and Merino wool milled in Melbourne.

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Anchored in timeless design, Minimalist is a curated collection of women’s ready-to-wear pieces all made in New York and designed to be recycled at their end of life. With a modern and polish look, their Palazzo Pants are the perfect addition to your workwear favourites. Designed with circularity and sustainability in mind, they are made of fine Italian recycled jersey making them ultra-comfortable and breathable.

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ASKET has been creating timeless wardrobe essentials since 2015 with revolutionary sizing and fair pricing. The Shirt is smart and comfortable thanks to the crisp organic cotton-poplin that’s cut in a breezy silhouette. The brand disregards seasonal collections, cuts out all the middlemen, and only sells directly to you—putting its entire focus on building a single permanent collection.

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Sleek and innovative, Opera Campi’s unisex Din Jacket is paving the way when it comes to modern workwear. Founded in 2017, Italian brand Opera Campi creates premium quality garments from locally-sourced raw materials. By using a balanced approach to sustainability, the brand makes conscious choices throughout its supply chain and donates 4% of its profits to social causes.

The brand is inclusively sized from 3XS-3XL.

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Encircled creates ethically-made, versatile women’s fashion for life and travel. Its collections are made in Canada from sustainable and eco-conscious fabrics. Find the range in XS-2XL.

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Need a conversation starter? Wear your morals at work. Conscious Step creates premium fair trade, organic, vegan socks and clothes which support great charities. The US brand is committed to lasting social and environmental change and every step it takes in its production process supports farms and factories with fair wages, safe facilities, and lower-impact materials.

The socks come in S-L sizes, and the clothes in XS-XL.

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If you’re looking for a luxury, vegan work bag, stop right here. A member of the Ethical Trading Initiative and Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Stella McCartney has set some excellent environmental standards across the luxury fashion industry. This branded tote has a convenient adjustable strap and comes in a gorgeous array of colours. Stella uses some lower-impact materials, including recycled polyester and organic cotton, and has a strategy in place to reduce waste across its entire supply chain.

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Reliable and easygoing, Addis is a loyal companion. Made by hand to last, the Addis Backpack is hand-cut from Ethiopian leather and plant-based materials. Raven + Lily supports local female artisans to create handmade jewellery, bags, and homewares. This US brand’s products empower communities through fair wages, healthcare, and education.

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Classic and sleek, BEEN London’s laptop case is made entirely from recycled materials. This London-based brand is turning waste into timeless accessories you’d want to use every day. All its products are made of materials that have been something else in a previous life, including recycled leather offcuts and plastic bottles.

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Made with GRS recycled material, this vegan Universo tote will be ideal for commuters. It has two handy front pockets, a padded laptop sleeve, and both shoulder and handle straps.

Founded in 2018 with the sole purpose of delivering pieces that had beauty without the beast, Sans Beast is an Australian accessories brand creating luxury vegan bags and accessories entirely cruelty-free.

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Svala creates luxury designer vegan handbags, purses, bags, and totes. Each bag is handcrafted in LA with high-quality, vegan materials such as cork and Piñatex. This tote, which fits a 13-inch MacBook, is made from Mirum, a plastic-free leather alternative.

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