The choice of material can determine a big part of a garment’s environmental impact. When choosing materials, knowledge of the entire production process must be taken into account.

Traceability from raw material can be difficult but must always be the goal, as well as consideration end-of-life options.

We have created a Material Guide where we have divided raw materials into four different categories from “Preferred” to “Banned”.

The Material Guide ranking is based on research and considers environmental, social and animal welfare perspectives.

The Material Guide Ranking offered here should be taken as a first step. To measure your actual impact of the actual materials used, suppliers and supply chain must be taken into account.

We underscore the importance of understanding the complexity of comparing fibres and the need to look at products from a life-cycle perspective, including the user phase as well as end-of-life.