10 Irish Apparel Brands Crafting Sustainable Fashion

AFORE AFTER is committed to circular fashion, focusing on product longevity and reducing waste by using mono-materials like 100% TENCEL™ Lyocell for both fabric and thread, which facilitates textile-to-textile recycling. The brand is transparent about its costs, materials, and supply chain, ensuring ethical production with fair working conditions in the EU and providing customers with a clear breakdown of garment pricing. Through initiatives like the Full Circle resell service and MYAVA's virtual fitting room, AFORE AFTER encourages responsible consumption and aims to minimize the environmental impact of fashion.

Alex D'Paula's brand ethos emphasizes creating meaningful, enduring clothing with a focus on design, functionality, and expression, using natural fibers and materials. The brand adopts a Made to Order approach to minimize waste and employs direct-to-garment printing with eco-friendly inks to reduce water usage and carbon footprint. Additionally, for every product sold, Alex D'Paula plants a tree, supporting environmental sustainability and contributing to cleaner air, water filtration, and biodiversity.

Due South emphasizes a deep respect for the environment and a commitment to sustainable fashion practices. Their ethos includes using 100% organic cotton and recycled polyester, ensuring their products are both high-quality and environmentally friendly. They also partner with charities like Empower Eco and Eden Reforestation Projects to contribute to ocean cleanup and reforestation, with each purchase from their Impact Collection directly supporting these initiatives.

FéRí employs a sustainable design process, utilizing digital textile printing in India for its unique, exclusive prints on natural fabrics, reducing water usage significantly compared to traditional screen printing. The brand embraces a no-waste philosophy, repurposing deadstock fabrics and upcycling unsold items from previous collections to create distinctive pieces, while also ensuring all packaging is plastic-free and biodegradable. With a commitment to transparency and responsibility, FéRí's slow fashion approach includes using GOTS-certified organic cotton and EPFC-certified orange fiber, and handcrafting collections in small batches in Ireland and with a certified manufacturer in India.

Fresh Cuts Clothing, based in the heart of Dublin, is committed to sustainability, with all items crafted from 100% GOTS certified organic cotton and delivered in compostable mailers. The brand ensures ethical production by partnering exclusively with suppliers that adhere to globally recognized standards, such as GOTS, Fair Trade, and SA8000, to promote fair labor practices and minimize environmental impact. Through initiatives like using wind-powered mills, conserving water, and employing reactive dyes, Fresh Cuts takes actionable steps to reduce its ecological footprint, offering customers stylish apparel that aligns with their values.

Grown emphasizes environmental stewardship through initiatives such as planting a tree for each order on their own land in Ireland, and using 100% organic cotton in their clothing since 2015. The brand actively supports rewilding efforts, notably with the creation of a native broadleaf woodland in Co. Wicklow, aimed at carbon sequestration and biodiversity restoration. Additionally, Grown fosters community and conservation through partnerships with organizations like Ireland's Surfing Association and Sea Shepherd Ireland, contributing 3% of annual profits to support marine protection.

Human Collective designs sustainable Irish Urban Leisure clothing, with each item featuring an equal "=" symbol to represent support for racial, LGBTQI+, and opportunity equality. Their apparel, which includes a range of clothing from jumpers to children's wear, is made using GOTS-certified organic cotton and recycled polyester, and the brand is also FairWear certified, ensuring fair labor conditions. Additionally, Human Collective donates €3 from every jumper sold to charity partners such as Sports Against Racism Ireland, LGBT Ireland, and The Irish Youth Foundation, directly funding community support initiatives like helpline services and anti-discrimination workshops.

Native Denims exemplifies sustainable practices in the fashion industry by sourcing high-quality, sustainable materials such as BCI and organic cotton from top mills committed to circular manufacturing and minimal water usage. The brand's garment construction relies on vintage machinery and Permacore thread, while eschewing environmentally damaging wash processes, offering raw denim that naturally conforms to the wearer's body over time. Committed to reducing its carbon footprint through local manufacturing, Native Denims guarantees its garments for five years, promoting longevity and reduced waste, and is actively pursuing a fully sustainable "cradle to cradle" Irish product within two years.

Organic Movement is a brand that emerged from a commitment to ethical consumerism, offering a selection of yoga wear crafted from organic cotton and produced sustainably. The brand's inception was influenced by the founder's transformative experiences in India and the eye-opening insights from "The True Cost" documentary, which led to a dedication to fair treatment of workers and environmental responsibility. Available online and at various markets and events in Ireland, Organic Movement's products are sourced from ethical producers in Bali and Europe, reflecting the brand's mission to make sustainable yoga wear accessible.

Pure Clothing is a sustainable clothing brand from Ireland, crafting garments primarily from organic cotton and recycled materials, ensuring a chemical-free and vegan-friendly product range. Their commitment to ethical practices is demonstrated through Fair Wear-approved production, guaranteeing fair wages and working conditions, and through their packaging, which is 100% biodegradable and compostable. Additionally, the brand is actively involved in environmental initiatives, such as planting 1,000 native Irish trees and maintaining a circular economy focus to reduce waste and promote sustainability.