Ethics & Sustainability
We love our planet and we’re mindful of the impact we make on it and its people. We believe in the individuals and the collective power of conscious consumption.
Creating a beautiful sustainable fashion brand that is honest to our customers, respectful to our employees and our planet is of utmost importance. From the very beginning, we are proud to say Thilikó has been on the path towards sustainability.
Thilikó ensures fair, safe, and clean workplace conditions on a global scale. We’re joining the fashion revolution because clothes shouldn’t come at the expense of our planet.
We want to reduce negative environmental and social impacts by rethinking every stage of our design process, including concept, material, production choices, development, the use and end-of-life of a product with sustainability at the forefront in all areas of the manufacturing and retail process.
Our environmental and sustainability policy as an organization is tied to our founder’s concerns over the impact of humans on living and non-living natural systems, including the ecosystems of land, air, and water. In some textile-producing regions freshwater and drinking water have become scarce resources, which often has to do with industrial consumption and waste. We work for more efficiency in the conservation of freshwater. We consider environmental initiatives an integrated part of management planning and we work to continuously improve environmental responsibility. Thilikó confirms that its suppliers and retailers comply with all applicable environmental standards in order to further our brand's mission of reducing environmental impact.
Let’s talk about Slow Fashion
We believe in slow fashion and minimal consumption, this is why we only aim for 1-3 collections per year. 90% of our products are made with sustainable and biodegradable fabrics and our staple signature resort 22 cotton is made with no electricity on old handlooms, we work directly with artists from their homes and weaving villages in India, so they too can participate in global trade. We commit to never working with large corporations and factories and we will only ever produce enough material for the stock that is needed.
All garments from Thilikó are created from biodegradable fabrics that either come from a sustainable and/or organic source. We guarantee to our customers that we will always stay away from toxic fibers, the damage synthetic fabrics have on the environment is very alarming.
At the beginning of fashion, humans would create clothing from natural fibers like cotton, wool, and cashmere, before man-made fabrics existed these fibers were nontoxic and were not “wrinkle-free” or “stain-resistant” - these terms typically mean your clothing has been chemically treated. It all changed in 1889 when a manmade artificial silk fabric was created, this changed the market of the fashion industry, humans were now able to produce fabric at a high speed, causing mass production or as they say, fast fashion.
Thilikó fabrics are strictly toxic-free, having personally sourced our sustainable fabrics from around the world. We require our suppliers to supply us with a certificate that allows us to determine a given fabric’s organic status and our suppliers truthfully communicate with us if any of the materials or fibers we choose to have synthetic traces within them.