Sustainable Fashion Companies in Tokyo

A legendary Japanese fashion designer known for avant-garde approach and innovative fabric technologies, blending art and science to create eco-friendly garments.

Showcases Japanese handcrafts like sashiko and boro, manufactures locally, employs workers from disadvantaged backgrounds, uses lower-impact materials, and reuses offcuts to reduce waste.

Champions lower-impact and recycled materials in understated basics, with final production in Japan, and has its own fabric recycling program.

Adults’ and kids’ clothes and accessories brand with a connection in Ghana, employs women and workers with disabilities, contributes to education programs, uses lower-impact materials.

Roots childrenswear designs in Japanese tradition, uses locally made materials, lower-waste cutting methods, collects pre-loved kids' clothes for resale.

Reimagines traditional Japanese clothing, uses lower-impact materials and dyes, employs lower waste cutting techniques.

Hand-dyeing and clothesmaking workshop using natural dyes from materials within Japan, India, and Bangladesh, creating vibrant clothing.

Slow fashion brand creating unisex clothing with dyes derived from vegetables, ethical practices.

Focuses on sustainability and eco-friendliness, combining classic and timeless designs for long-term wear, fabrics from renewable resources.

Creates relaxed clothing from biodegradable materials, all parts 100% biodegradable to return to the natural cycle without waste.

Crafts bags and cases from used obi, including clutches, pouches, and totes.

Made from recycled tarpaulin street banners, featuring unique patterns of large numbers and bold kanji characters.

Sustainable jeans for men and women, uses organic cotton, focuses on fair trade and environmental protection.

Fair trade company with clothing from India, incorporates block printing techniques, stylish and ethical for women.

Organic, vegan, fair trade brand offering apparel for men and women, and chic bags.

Provides quality blouses, shirts, and sweaters for women, donates to India’s Mading Padar Village per purchase.

Produces biodegradable clothing made of traditional Japanese paper “Washi,” offers circular purchasing and subscription service.

Produces clothing made of silk to revitalize local sericulture and craftsmanship, with transparency in production as everything is done in the same region.

One of Japan’s oldest t-shirt companies, a member of the NPO Japan Cotton Association, offering items for men and women.

An NPO that sends discarded kimonos globally to be remade into clothing by women, sold in Kyoto shops and online.