top of page

IMPACTS OF RAW MATERIALS

GENERAL RAW MATERIAL INFO RESOURCES 

CFJ Material Guide

Collective Fashion Justice

Go to Resource

The future of fashion is full of materials which are good not only for designers and wearers, but for people, our fellow animals and the planet, too.

Meanwhile, materials derived from the bodies of animals are needlessly violent and responsible for disproportionate environmental destruction as well as human harm. Virgin synthetics derived from fossil fuels, deforestation-linked cellulose materials and others are also important for fashion to move beyond, to better align with total ethics fashion.

No material is perfect or without impact, but some are far more aligned with total ethics than others, and worth looking out for!

Materials Impact Explorer

Textile Exchange

Go to Resource

The Materials Impact Explorer (MIE) examines the location-specific impacts of raw materials. When fashion, textile, and apparel brands source their materials, they often have little to no visibility of the environmental risks and opportunities associated with them. The Materials Impact Explorer (MIE) is a first-of-its-kind risk assessment tool, designed to help brands and retailers to understand the on-the-ground risks and opportunities of the raw materials they source.

Ultimate Clothing Material Guide

Good On You

Go to Resource

We have done the detective work for you and written guides to a vast selection of fabrics that you can find on shop shelves and in your wardrobe, and compiled them here in our (hefty, yet helpful) ultimate material guide.

COTTON

WOOL 

LINEN

SILK

HEMP

JUTE 

NATURAL

POLYESTER 

RAYON 

SYNTHETIC LEATHER 

SYNTHETIC BLENDS 

SPANDEX / ELASTANE 

FAUX FUR 

ACRYLIC 

SYNTHETIC / SEMI-SYNTHETIC 

bottom of page