Further (we believe this is the case if you are reading our blog) we want custom-made ethical fashion. Clothes made with a low impact on our planet, made from sustainable resources, treating humans and animals well.

The good news is that you now can find custom-made ethical fashion as new small labels are focussing exactly on this: sustainable clothes with the perfect fit.

We would like to present you 4 labels here which do great fashion for women from casual to business. All of them do not only do custom-made ethical fashion, but all four are as well women-founded businesses. Sounds logical: who could feel better what women need than other women?

C.Bergamia – pants for women with the perfect fit

Did you ever feel strangled by your pants? Or do you have problems when it comes to finding the lengths your legs need? – We guess YES, as our personal experience showed us. Since 1960 women can wear pants, though often they simply do not fit women.

C. Bergamia is the brand you need to discover when it comes to pants for women. The idea of the brand is custom made ethical fashion pants for women.  Pants that really fit, while being made of natural materials as organic cotton and flax, all made in France.

You can choose from different styles between shorts, pants and dungarees as well as from different cuts between straight to wide. Either you go for a 100% custom made pants or you choose a semi-custom solution by selecting style and size and adapting further some measurements to your needs. The brand is creative and you can find the products in stores in France, but as well online. Customer service is great so do not hesitate to contact them directly!

Oh and last but not least: This is a female founded company between mother and daughter, what a great way to create a business.

Les jupons de Louison- the skirt for every woman

If you prefer skirts rather than pants? Maybe you are smaller or bigger than the so called “normal”? You need a certain length or usually you bring your skirts to the tailor to get them shortened? Stop: There is a brand answering your needs.

Les jupons de Louison is a brand doing skirts and dresses, but as well some tops which are made in France according to your morphology and needs.

For the skirts for example start by general length: short, midi or long. Following select a style, colour or print you like. Adapt to your needs and ready- you will feel better in your skirt than ever before. The homepage makes it easy for you to find your measurements and to select your styles- try and you will see.

Most tissues are made in France and all manufacturing is local. The quality is exceptional and for dresses and skirts fully doubled in the material. These are sustainable fashion pieces you will wear for years. The brand is fully transparent about manufacturing, price and the way they work, you can discover more here.

Aatise – the dress which adapts to your body

Fashion made in France where you can participate in the creation process, this is Aatise. The brand offers ready-to-wear as well as customized pieces. The collection includes women and men.

Make it as you need it: If you need a special fit, you can start from scratch making your own design. Select a tissue and a cut and from there on you add your needs in terms of sizes. The result will be pieces which are sustainable and perfectly fitting.

If you want a custom-made dress for example you have the choice between 5 shapes just for the sleeves for example, the choice and possibilities are nearly endless. Take some minutes and check out the pictures and examples to see what you want. You will definitely find something!

All is made in France to have a short way and the materials are sustainable as well, being flax or Viscose EcoVero. The full collection is a mix of essential and timeless styles. You can create your casual our fit as well as perfect business styles for work.

Lolo Paris – the lingerie which fits

What you wear under your clothes is as important as the clothes themselves. The “no-bra” movement includes as well many women who simply never found the right bra. If you wear a bra which fits you will feel supported and beautiful. If this until now was not the case for you, check out Lolo Paris. But even if you have well-fitting underwear and you want something truly ethical, you will find what you need.

They offer 57 sizes for the bras and 10 even for the panties (many normal lingerie brands have maximum 20 bra sizes and 4 for panties). Instead of working with only 2 measures taken to select a bra as it is done by bra fitters all around the globe so far, Lolo Paris works with 6 measures to assure to find the right bra for you. The sustainable and recycled materials are French, Italian, and Spanish and manufacturing is done in Poland- truly European products.

With over 500 women who did participate in answering surveys but as well trying on the prototypes, Lolo Paris today can say with confidence that they will find the right bra for every bosom.

Advantages of custom-made ethical fashion

The biggest advantage of custom-made fashion is of course that it will perfectly fit your body. But further to this it also is extremely sustainable in all terms possible.

With the brand presented the sourcing of material is made of natural fibres or recycled fibres only, using low resources. The manufacturing is in France or Europe and reduces CO2 emission in terms of transport. Further if you wear clothes made for you, which perfectly match your morphology, you will wear them much longer and replace them less often.

The first price to pay is higher than fast fashion but as well as other non-custom-made products. But it is worth it! For you to feel better and for our planet as well.

How to find more custom-made ethical fashion?

These four brands offer already a great choice, though you might want to find a shirt or blazer fitted to your needs. There are many other ethical brands on the fashion market, but most do not yet offer custom-made pieces. When recommending brands to you we are sure that they are truly sustainable as well as making great quality. Check out the label finder of SloWeAre and check for updates in terms of ethical fashion brands offering tailoring. If you know more brands we are happy to hear from you and to add them to this list.

Hoping that you will check out these 4 brands presented and who knows, maybe you will soon be more confident in your custom-made ethical fashion piece when you go to a business meeting or an important business travel!

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A lady in her early thirties stopped short as she was quickly walking through the hall where Bag Affair was exhibiting at Impact Who’s Next.

Taiseer was observing her from a couple of meters just opposite the Bag Affair stand, and then she approached to greet her. She turned to Taiseer smiling and quickly said “I recognise myself in your brand”. Taiseer was not expecting this for a greeting. 

 “I read “carry your dreams”, and it is so well thought”, she continued.

Taiseer asked her, “in what way?”

Following she quickly answers, “That we should dream big and work towards our ambitions, and how a bag is a tool to get there”.

After that and for a second Taiseer was speechless.

So here is a beautiful French young lady, who’s English is maybe not perfect, yet clearly understood Bag Affair’s brand purpose in a split of a second. Not only that, but also projected herself into the bags. 

Experiences during IMPACT Who’s Next

This is one of the many positive encounters we had during our exhibition at IMPACT Who’s Next, the first space dedicated for ethical fashion by Who’s Next. We did choose to participate at the fair for several reasons:

1. Who’s Next is known as the most important fashion event for fashion boutiques
2. IMPACT is the first dedicated space for sustainable fashion organised under Who’s Next, a major fashion institution
3. Bag Affair as the first French sustainable handbags brands dedicated to business bags for women, would be in the right space as a trend leader in the handbags sector
4. Paris is the fashion capital of the world, clients from Europe and Asia seek trends in Paris, and what better trend than one that respects humans and the planet? 

The topics that weave the rising demands of green fashion were covered by thematic talks during the four days of the show. Here is a link to see all the topics in detail.

Thomas Ébélé from SloWeAre moderated a panel about “why consumers want more transparency” on Sunday. Guest in the talk have been:  Catherine Dauriac – Directeur of Fashion Revolution France, Cindy Durdan CSR & Supply Chain Manager at Ekyog, Hélène Lucas who is the Communications Director of the shoe brand Panafrica, as well as Marie Demaegt being Project Manager Creation & Innovation at CELC/ Masters of Linen and Yasmine AUQUIER, Directeur general Rive Droite Paris. An interesting remark made by the Catherine Dauriac from Fashion Revolution France, was whether boycotting fast fashion brands could be the right answer or accompanying them to adopt a more sustainable operations would be better. This debate, in our opinion, deserves a full dedicated blog on its own – if you want to read more check out our blog on sustainable fashion.

As a SloWeAre audited brand, Bag Affair was present with 9 other young fashion labels from different categories at Impact Who’s Next

Clothing

Aatise – Ethical fashion made in France. Aatise offers clothes for him and for her- made in France with perfect transparency. Secondly an interesting part of the designs is the possibility that you can be part of the designing process. Every Tuesday you find on their Instagram the possibility to vote for new lines and like this create new models with their community.

Muse and Marlowe – The sustainable feminine wardrobe. Muse and Marlowe does produce in France with GOTS certified materials, ships to you in recycled materials and even the hang tag has some seeds inside so that you can actually plant it. Above all sustainable and creative!

Antagony – Unisex fashion in a lifestyle spirit. Antagony shows that unisex fashion can be sustainable and look good in an office look as well as casual. If you want to create a capsule wardrobe you will find here perfect pieces as well as fashionable highlights.

Atelier Unes – Show your femininity is their slogan. Above all Atelier Unes wants to highlight your look with special cuts and designs- all made ethically. Materials are chosen carefully, attention is paid to details, and all for you. They create based on surveys with their consumers and assure like this that their pieces are adopted quickly.

Au juste – Clothes 100% recycled and 100% made in France for men and women. Further did you know that wool can be recycled? – if not check out au juste and learn more about their production process to make something new out of recycled materials.

Upcycling for kids

Second Sew – Kids clothes made of recycled materials. Second Sew does not throw away but reuse and this in a very cute way. Old clothes and tissues are transformed into baby and kids clothes- high quality and at the same time unique. If you are a mum or dad, aunt or uncle you must see what they are doing!

Lingerie

Olly – Bras and panties of organic cotton. Olly lingerie provides you comfortable, yet perfect looking underwear for women. To sum up their bras and bottoms are ethically made and you can be sure that you will feel comfortable in them.

Sportswear

Gayaskin – Sport clothes yes, but ethically. Gayaskin uses 100% recycled PET fibres for their sportswear for women. Further all products from leggings to sports-bra are made in Europe and if your order online they come ethically packed and ship with zero carbon.

Sneakers

WIWI – old tires make new shoes. Wiwi is the king of upcycling while helping local tribes in Indonesia. The shoes are made with unused tires for the sole and all sales are helping a charity organization to feed and educate locals at the same time.

Our feedback of the first edition of IMPACT:

Putting together this first fair in Paris means that the French fashion industry is listening. Even if things are not changing fast enough as we’d like them to, this bottom up movement can be clearly felt. The challenge that follows is differentiating authentic practices from marketing gimmicks, or worse, greenwashing efforts by fast fashion labels, or inviting them to preach about sustainability.

In short we are waiting for a second edition and would be happy to meet you there- follow us for updates of upcoming events and shows!

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We are happy to announce that Bag Affair joins the community of sustainable labels of  SloWeAre   – a platform for ethical textile brands and shopping advice. To be integrated each brand has to run a deep audit to be approved of being truly sustainable and transparent.

SloWeAre has been created by Eloise after her own negative experience in the fashion industry. And the difficulty not to know which brand to trust, which products to buy and how to obtain information about their practices. Most fashion brands are not transparent about the origins of their products, materials or the way the clothes are made.

Ethical shopping now made easy

If you want to dress ethically you need to spend more time in asking questions than enjoying a shopping experience. Today SloWeAre offers a perfect solution- you can select brands or categories to review brands in various fashion categories; clothes, shoes, accessories, you name it. The portal makes shopping easier while assuring trust in sustainability.

Green Shopping Tours in Paris

SloWeAre is also very active offline. Eloise and Thomas organise fashion tours in Paris and thematic conferences around fashion change and sustainability. The rising demand in transparency in fashion, as well as nearshoring of brands from overseas, such as bringing back the fashion industry to industrial deserts in the north of France, is an example of many initiatives that new brands promote. The community of green fashion in France is in constant rise, and the work done by serious independent audits such as SloWeAre is vital to provide clear and quick answers to this growing demand.

Fashion Transparency Audit

Following only brands which pass their audit are integrated on their website. The audit consists in rigorous transparency questions of supply and value chain: information how, where and under which conditions for human, nature and animals the products are made, leaving no details unturned. The sustainable development goals from the United Nations  need to be followed as well as a full transparency of suppliers are production steps have to be provided.

Today Bag Affair proudly announces to have passed the audit and to be SloWeAre certified!

The label is an opportunity for us to further show our clients, via an external independent party, that we truly stand behind our values. Bag Affair is transparent about our production and that our collection is unique from tree to the bag. We want to further elevate women in their careers with practical handbags that carry their work essentials, their image and ambitions. Business fashion that serves an important purpose while respecting animals, humans and the planet.

A family of French green fashion brands

And we are happy that there are more great brands out these who are as well SloWeAre certified. Did you know for example Olly Lingerie – they work with organic cotton, made in Europe. Or how about linen clothes made in France from CONOUCO – fashion for men and women made from linen grown in France. On SloWeAre you can find full outfits, accessories as well as shopping tips – we definitely recommend to check it out!  

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