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Canada’s responsible fashion scene boasts a wide range of brands, from outdoorsy labels making coats and boots to go the distance, to jewellery and accessories brands you’re going to love—meet 19 of the region’s most sustainable brands below.
Reduce your impact by supporting local brands
Sustainability is increasingly important to consumers like you, and as more responsible fashion brands emerge to meet that demand and help change the fashion industry for the better, you’re likely to have a better choice of companies located in your country or region. And shopping locally can have positive benefits, from supporting your community at home to reducing your carbon footprint when shopping online.
So, if you live in Canada, you might be wondering which clothing brands are doing it right, and we’ve compiled this list of “Good” or “Great” rated fashion brands that are either based or manufacturing in the region.
What makes a better brand?
Simply put, a more sustainable brand makes sure it has a positive impact in every aspect of its work.
Good On You rates brands on their policies and actions across three key sustainability pillars: people, planet, and animals.
Among the many things we look at (there are 100 key issues), is evidence that a brand’s workers are treated fairly across the supply chain, including policies and practices on child labour, forced labour, worker safety, the right to join a union, and payment of a living wage. We also look at resource and energy management, whether a brand is actively reducing its carbon emissions, managing its impact on our waterways, and using and disposing of chemicals safely.
Finally, we analyse the use of animal products like wool, leather, fur, angora, down feather, shearling, karakul, and exotic animal skin and hair. Ideally, the brand is 100% vegan.
We give each brand an overall rating which you’ll see throughout this list, but you can find out more about a brand’s rating on our directory.
Curious about brands in other regions? Check out our editors’ favourites from:
- the USA (including California, LA, and New York)
- Europe, Germany (including Berlin), Belgium, Spain and Portugal, Italy (including Milan), France (and Paris), the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, and Switzerland
- the UK (and brands from London)
- Australia and New Zealand
- India
- Japan
