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WEAVE

Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

WEAVE is a Chiang Mai social enterprise empowering marginalized women and refugees through fair trade handwoven housewares. They utilize sustainable natural dyes and reinvest profits into vital community education.

FUTURA Jewelry

United States

FUTURA Jewelry is a US luxury jewelry brand that crafts rings, earrings, brooches and wedding bands from Certified Fairmined Ecological gold. Its collections include Legends, which reworks historical designs found with jewelry historians, as well as Essentials, Wedding, Forever Futura and Zodiac. Pieces are available in stock or made to order. The brand's gold comes from certified mines in Mongolia and Peru that extract gold without mercury or cyanide. FUTURA presents this as a response to mercury pollution from small-scale gold mining. It is a partner of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership and says it aims to give customers transparency about where their gold comes from. Good On You rates FUTURA Jewelry Great overall. It scores the brand Great for planet and Good for people, while animals are not rated. Good On You notes made-to-order production, final manufacturing in the United States, no plastic packaging, and a Code of Conduct covering the ILO Four Fundamental Freedoms. It found no evidence of living wages across most of the supply chain.

Elvis & Kresse

United Kingdom

Elvis & Kresse is a UK brand that makes bags, belts, wallets, travel goods and other accessories from reclaimed materials. Its main materials are decommissioned London fire-hoses and rescued leather. The range includes crossbody bags, totes, backpacks, briefcases and wash bags for women and men. The brand is built on three pillars: rescue, transform and donate. It gives 50 percent of its profits to charity, including the Fire Fighters Charity. In 2021 it moved its operations to a farm in Kent to work regeneratively. There it built a straw bale workshop powered by renewables, created a wetland system to treat its own wastewater and is setting up a vineyard that prioritises soil and biodiversity. Elvis & Kresse is a certified B Corp. Good On You rates it Great overall, with Great for planet and people and Good for animals. The rating notes that pieces are made in-house by a small team and that final-stage workers are paid a living wage. It also says the leather and any other animal materials the brand uses are recycled before ever reaching consumers.

Anekdot

Germany

Anekdot is a Berlin upcycling brand that makes lingerie, swimwear, loungewear and accessories in limited editions. Its designs mix a nostalgic feel with everyday comfort. The brand reuses high-quality fabrics that have never been worn, such as surplus stock, end-of-line goods, offcuts and materials with minor flaws. Most of these come from an Italian supplier certified to OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 and holding GRS certification. Smaller amounts come from local designers, Italian deadstock and vintage markets. Patterns are cut by hand so the team can work around defects. Pieces are made in the brand's own Berlin atelier and at a small, women-led workshop in Poland. Good On You rates Anekdot Great overall, with Great scores for both planet and people. It notes that the brand limits production runs, avoids plastic packaging, partners with women-owned businesses and pays a living wage in final production. Animals is not rated because the products are generally free of animal-derived materials.