Conscious Fashion: 8 Guilt-Free Brands From Around the Arab World
They say money must be funny in a rich man’s world, but doesn’t it just feel good when you buy rescued clothes, eco-friendly and recycled brands? It feels good when you shop for a good cause, which also means your purchases are guilt-free. This is when sustainability meets design; conscious fashion is the new black!
Keep reading for some of our favorite sustainable brands from around the region.
Doodle Factory
Doodle Factory is a design-centric Egyptian brand that empowers children in need by enabling them to better their own lives by themselves. Through their own drawing and creativity, Doodle Factory creates fashion designs and products that match their art, with funds going to medical institutions, education, and children’s shelters. Let’s add impact and humanity to the fashion industry!
Saqhoute
Saqhoute is a Cairo-based fashion brand focusing on slow fashion, artisanal handwork, and zero-waste. Not only this, but the brand also empowers women with its style and trends, supporting their day to day lifestyle with outfits that enable them to balance between family, career, and social life through a versatile capsule wardrobe.
Almah
Let’s recycle some high quality and unique products with this Egyptian brand that is utilized to fund the Egyptian Clothing Bank’s production lines of new clothing for underprivileged individuals in Egypt.
Wekala
Let’s give rescued clothes another chance! That’s their motto. A new way of thinking, right? Let’s all follow their lead because fashion isn’t about new clothes, it’s about how you style them.
Minimal Cotton
Minimal Cotton follows the pattern of simplicity in the best way. They’re passionate about versatile and timeless looks, they stand for fair payment and high quality, making them a great local slow fashion option.
CIVVIES
When art, sustainability and avant-garde meet in one brand and product. CIVVIES is an eco-friendly Lebanese clothing label that motivates and encourages everyone to add sustainable fashion and clothes to everyone’s wardrobe.
Late For Work
Let some unique inspo strike and hit the streets with some ‘cut and paste’ clothes. The brand’s name was actually the designer’s graduation project which was initially intended to mark the paradox between the work environment and another planet where everything is allowed to be worn.
Retold Dubai
Funny story behind this brand here; this store was previously named ‘My Ex-Wardrobe’. It specializes in up-cycling secondhand clothes and giving them a new, fresh life.
