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Canada’s responsible fashion scene boasts a wide range of brands, from outdoorsy labels making coats and boots to go the distance, to jewellery and accessories brands you’re going to love—meet 19 of the region’s most sustainable brands below.
Reduce your impact by supporting local brands
Sustainability is increasingly important to consumers like you, and as more responsible fashion brands emerge to meet that demand and help change the fashion industry for the better, you’re likely to have a better choice of companies located in your country or region. And shopping locally can have positive benefits, from supporting your community at home to reducing your carbon footprint when shopping online.
So, if you live in Canada, you might be wondering which clothing brands are doing it right, and we’ve compiled this list of “Good” or “Great” rated fashion brands that are either based or manufacturing in the region.
What makes a better brand?
Simply put, a more sustainable brand makes sure it has a positive impact in every aspect of its work.
Good On You rates brands on their policies and actions across three key sustainability pillars: people, planet, and animals.
Among the many things we look at (there are 100 key issues), is evidence that a brand’s workers are treated fairly across the supply chain, including policies and practices on child labour, forced labour, worker safety, the right to join a union, and payment of a living wage. We also look at resource and energy management, whether a brand is actively reducing its carbon emissions, managing its impact on our waterways, and using and disposing of chemicals safely.
Finally, we analyse the use of animal products like wool, leather, fur, angora, down feather, shearling, karakul, and exotic animal skin and hair. Ideally, the brand is 100% vegan.
We give each brand an overall rating which you’ll see throughout this list, but you can find out more about a brand’s rating on our directory.
Curious about brands in other regions? Check out our editors’ favourites from:
- the USA (including California, LA, and New York)
- Europe, Germany (including Berlin), Belgium, Spain and Portugal, Italy (including Milan), France (and Paris), the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, and Switzerland
- the UK (and brands from London)
- Australia and New Zealand
- India
- Japan
Our favourite more ethical and sustainable brands from Canada
Kotn
Certified B Corp Kotn is based in Canada and works with local NGOs on the ground at the Nile Delta to provide every child in their farming communities with quality education, and to help close the gap of low literacy rates amongst communities. With every purchase, not only will you get a beautifully made garment, but you’ll also help fund school infrastructure, materials, and salaries for teachers.
Find Kotn in sizes XS-2XL.
BEDI
Canadian-brand BEDI creates handmade bags, knits, and outerwear driven by a creative ethos to wear a better tomorrow. It promotes circularity with its careful selection of lower-impact materials, from upcycled airline seat leather and fish nets, to vegan cactus leather and more sustainably grown cotton. Driven by a slow fashion ethos, its pieces are grounded in utility and constructed for life, intended for you and beyond.
Find the range in sizes XS-XL.
LONDRĖ
LONDRĖ is a Canadian minimalist swimwear brand making pieces from recycled plastic bottles sourced from the streets and beaches of Taiwan. Water used in the brand’s process is reused and recycled. It also works to raise awareness and funds for women’s health and environmental initiatives, having donated over $10,000 to organisations such as Amazon Watch and the Yellow Hammer Fund.
Find the range in sizes XS-5XL.
Free Label
Free Label brings basics back that don’t come at a cost to the environment or undermining of human rights. This Canadian based label creates pieces locally in both Toronto and Vancouver to support the local economy and to ensure pieces are made ethically. It creates comfortable clothing from natural fibres including organic cotton, linen, and bamboo.
Triarchy
US-based Triarchy creates more sustainable jeans, skirts, shorts, jumpsuits, and jackets. The brand’s production system uses 85% recycled water by consistently reusing the “thick indigo laden sludge” that unmonitored factories dump into water systems.
Find most of the jeans in US sizes 24-32.
Q for Quinn
Q for Quinn offers more sustainable, non-toxic, and eczema-friendly clothing for all ages. Its essentials are made using organic, more responsibly sourced materials.
tentree
Canadian brand tentree plants ten trees for every item purchased to help regenerate ecosystems and provide planting jobs in communities around the world, and has already planted over 65 million trees. All tentree’s products are created with an Earth-first approach, meaning they’re made in fair, safe working conditions, and constructed using lower-impact and recycled materials.
tentree’s clothes are typically available from XS-XL.
Encircled
Encircled creates ethically-made, versatile women’s fashion for life and travel. Its collections are made in Canada from sustainable and eco-conscious fabrics. Find the range in XS-2XL.
Pyrrha
Pyrrha is a Canadian brand on a mission to make meaningful and more sustainable jewellery that fosters connection through personal storytelling. It manufactures products closer to home to reduce the climate impact of long-distance shipping.
Wuxly Movement
Wuxly Movement is a Canadian outerwear brand combining tech-based and recycled materials for elite performance. Drawing on Canada’s heritage in quality manufacturing, the founder saw an opportunity to innovate using more responsible materials—all while peacefully leaving animals out of the equation.
Find the range in 2XS-3XL.
Unbelts
Unbelts was founded with two goals in mind: helping you feel great in your jeans by making stretchy belts that ensure they fit perfectly, and creating quality jobs for every single person along the supply chain.
Mariclaro
Mariclaro is a Canadian brand that offers bags and accessories made from repurposed materials. The brand has been focusing mostly on vintage automotive interiors and aviation materials in the last few years.
Wildflo Studio
Wildflo Studio is a Toronto-based loungewear brand that offers minimalistic and versatile womenswear made from organic cotton and recycled materials. Its mission is to create comfortable, more sustainable clothing for people who care about the planet.
Find most items in sizes XS-2XL.
MiiK
MiiK is a Canadian brand that features impeccably tailored, more eco-friendly luxury womenswear with unmatched softness and stretch.
Find the range in XS-2XL.
Editor's note
Feature image via Triarchy, all other images via brands mentioned. Good On You publishes the world’s most comprehensive ratings of fashion and beauty brands’ impact on people, the planet, and animals. Use the directory to search thousands of rated brands.
We updated this article on 16 April 2026. Our editors frequently make updates to articles to ensure they’re up to date. We refreshed our round-up of brands.
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