NAE

NAE (No Animal Exploitation) is a Portuguese vegan footwear brand. It proposes a fair and animal-friendly alternative against human exploitation and respect to the environment. We want to be an option for clients who identify themselves with this philosophy and who are looking for Portuguese quality footwear design that present an increased responsibility towards the environment.

Our strategy is to create modern products that are designed for everyday use. The products are manufactured only in certified factories in Portugal, where employees are respected and don’t use any product from animal origin or that damages the environment. Moreover, we work with natural materials such as cork and pineapple, recycled materials as airbag and PET – plastic bottles, and synthetic materials as ecological microfibers.

ZOURI

ZOURI is an eco-vegan footwear brand that uses plastic trash from the Portuguese coast together with ecologic and sustainable materials.A factory in Guimarães (in the North of Portugal) guarantees that every pair of sneakers has the same detail and perfection. When you receive your sneakers you will see a letter with all the materials used in the sneakers, quantities, and location of plastic also the name of the persons that made your Zouri.

Zouri sales are mainly online through own website and specific marketplaces.

Zouri develops and sells vegan shoes – sneakers and sandals for men and women.

Reet Aus

Designer Reet Aus is dedicated to slow fashion and her upcycled collection is entirely made from  post-production leftovers. She keeps proving that clever design can salvage mountains of  unused textiles and the natural resources spent to produce them.

She has developed an industrial upcycling method that involves complete lifecycle analysis of the garments. The method enables to circulate the leftover materials back to production inside the same factory.
Most mass-production manufacturers are left with average 18% of pre-consumer textile waste  that ususally is taken to landfill or burned.

Each garment in Reet Aus collection saves on average 75% water and 88% energy.  Collection is produced following UPMADE® Cerfication criteria.

strambótica

strambótica is part of the "slow fashion" wave, from which products are allowed to be used widely,
timelessly and whose materials do not weaken over time, all thanks to eco-design. To this is added
multicultural and traditional techniques such as water-based inks (without chemical products or
allergens), Mayan braiding of bags and recycled paper accessories, and the recovery of items such
as espadrilles.

Our philosophy is to balance the fight against climate change, to limit the environmental impacts
related to the use of resources and to dress alternative, attractive and sustainable fashion.

For the packaging of all our products we use recycled paper and cardboard, wrapped in silk paper in
order to protect and maintain the product.

Antecuir

Antecuir forms part of AquaClean Group, a solid Spanish textile group formed by 6 industrial
companies (Grafer, Antecuir, Interfabrics, Textiles Pascual, Pascual and Bernabeu, Serpiscolor)
located in the Valencian Community, and two trading companies located in Poland and Singapore.
For AquacleanGroup, innovation and development form an important part of the company's
continuous growth, adopting the latest technologies in the sector to face an increasingly
demanding and competitive market.

Antecuir manufactures fabrics for the furniture upholstery industry and markets them all over the
world.

Campus Iberus best practices

Campus Iberus is a consortium composed by four universities (Zaragoza, Lleida, La Rioja, and Public
University of Navarre) aiming to the excellence in education. Campus Iberus is currently processing
the implementation of a joint master's degree on Circular Economy (90 ECTS credits) in order to
take profit of the occurrence of several research groups on that subject, the previous experience on
education of related matters (e.g., Sustainable Chemistry), as well as the interest from public and
private institutions.

Campus Iberus is a consortium composed by four universities (Zaragoza, Lleida, La Rioja, and Public
University of Navarre) aiming to the excellence in education. Campus Iberus is currently processing
the implementation of a joint master's degree on Circular Economy (90 ECTS credits) in order to
take profit of the occurrence of several research groups on that subject, the previous experience on
education of related matters (e.g., Sustainable Chemistry), as well as the interest from public and
private institutions.

Wearastory

Wear a story is a ready-to-wear clothing line started by the designer Lauriane Milis. It is offering items with a meaning to women looking for comfort and style.

The brand creates one-off pieces, made in Brussels, by upcycling ancient garments into modern cuts.

The challenge of Lauriane Milis, fashion designer and founder of the brand, is to create trendy clothing in a most ethical and efficient way.

Local upcycling appeared to be a good answer to the ethical part. As raw material, the brand uses garments that are unsuitable for the Belgian second hand market as well as organic cotton for the quality.

As for efficiency, Wear a story focuses on a few styles replicated with different fabrics. Each second hand garment is undone to get the new pattern shapes cut and then picked together.

Each style is named after a woman who could have been the owner of the old dress or top like Berthe, Jeanneke or Marcelle.

Each item relates the story behind it trough pictures of the original pieces.

Infinited fiber (Finland)

In fashion take-make-dispose mentality is the contemporary reality. This has made fashion one the heaviest burdens to the planet. At the same time there simply isn’t enough cotton available and demand is growing.

The need for impactful solutions to save fashion & our planet, has led to the creation of  Infinited Fiber.

Textile, paper and cardboard waste can be used to produce a cotton-like, soft textile fibre using Infinited Fiber’s technology. The cellulose in the raw materials is processed into a 100% cellulose solution and reshaped into ready fibre using nozzle technology. The fibre can be used to solve the environmental problems caused by textile production and textile waste disposal.