Our Values
Our existence is rooted in our rigorous supplier selection criteria: thoughtfulness and design excellence are our priorities. We focus on working with small businesses that develop sustainable, alternative materials, ensuring our clients get the highest quality out there. Our suppliers must support at least 3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to work with us. We meticulously source each product, tracing our value chain all the way to the raw materials so we can ensure complete transparency.
Our elevated, classic designs can be customized to our clients’ individual tastes. By consistently updated and curating our product offerings, we ensure that our clients have access to unique, cutting-edge selections that are both beautiful and sustainable.
Our Suppliers
Banofi
Story & Mission:
Our mission is to protect our only planet by creating sustainable alternatives to the materials of today. So, we dedicated ourselves to creating Banofi, which looks, feels, and smells like traditional leather but is vegan, sustainable, and made from upcycled crop waste.
The leather industry results in excessive carbon emissions, immense water usage, and the production of toxic waste as a byproduct of the tanning process. The second issue we aim to tackle is the escalating crop waste in India. As the world’s largest producer of bananas, India generates 4 tons of waste for every 1 ton of fruit, much of which is dumped.
We source our banana crop waste solely from smallholder farmers, where this waste is not utilised. These farmers are the core of our business, providing us with the main ingredient for our process. By providing farmers with additional income for their crop waste, we at Banofi are disincentivizing crop burning practices and boosting household incomes by 30%. Women are core to the work we do at Banofi with 60% of our team being composed of women
Our Commitments
We are a Fair Labor Association Member
and a Collegiate Licensee Affiliate.
The FLA Collegiate Licensee Program provides training, tools, resources, and platform access to build a sustainable social compliance program and increase collegiate supply chain transparency.