10 Sustainable San Francisco Clothing Brands

Sustainability: Transparent pricing, ethical factories

What they make: High-quality womenswear and menswear, focused on basics.

Everlane was founded in San Francisco and their flagship store is located on Valencia St.

This SF brand creates clean and well-designed essentials that everyone could use in their wardrobe.

Everlane partner with ethical factories to make sure their workers are treated fairly. They also have a highly transparent pricing model, showing you where their costs are incurred and the mark up they apply.

There have been discussions into whether Everlane is really a sustainable brand or not, but they’re still a long way ahead of most traditional fashion brands.

Sustainability: The SF clothing brand works with artisans to create bespoke products from responsibly sourced materials. Female-founded and BIPOC-owned.

What they make: Womenswear, footwear, accessories.

Cuyana is an awesome female-founded San Francisco clothing brand based in the heart of Union Square. As well as their flagship, they also have a recently store in Palo Alto’s Stanford Shopping Center.

Cuyana makes a range of womenswear, footwear, and accessories with clean, minimalist design. They believe in having fewer, better clothes, made by skilled craftspeople around Europe, South America, China, and the USA.

Sustainability: Organic and nontoxic clothing brand creating casual clothing in the USA

What they make: Organic loungewear, minimalist t-shirts

Harvest & Mill is a Californian brand through and through. The brand has its headquarters in Berkley and creates all of its clothing locally around the San Francisco and Oakland area. But they don’t stop there – Harvest & Mill even sources all its cotton from across the USA.

The brand creates super soft basics like t-shirts and joggers from nontoxic dyes, and all of its clothing and packaging is compostable – now that’s what we call sustainable.

Sustainability: Zero-waste fashion brand using leftover textiles, natural dyes, and a fair trade supply chain.

What they make: Womenswear.

This zero-waste, fair fashion brand combines using clothes from leftover materials and creative pattern making that uses 100% of a given material. The remnant materials they use come from the leftover textiles from other brands, which, they are then cut and turned into yarn.

As well as that, Tonlé have a fair trade supply chain and only use natural dyes to reduce their environmental impact.

Sustainability: Made in the USA, smart manufacturing processes to improve quality and reduce waste.

What they make: High-quality menswear & womenswear.

San Francisco is the tech capital of the world, and American Giant fit right in.

They are focused on creating the best Made in the USA clothing out there by using innovative fabrics and manufacturing processes ideal for casual or activewear.

American Giant makes both menswear and womenswear and their clothing is priced fairly considering they’re made in America.

Their HQ and flagship store is located on Natoma Street in San Francisco, and they also have a retail store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Sustainability: Organic materials, work with fair factories, partner with nonprofit, DAD Sewing House

What they make: Minimalist womenswear

If you’re looking for sustainable, minimalist essentials, époque évolution is for you.

époque évolution is a San Francisco based sustainable brand creating versatile, timeless pieces to ensure you’ve always got the perfect outfit for every occasion.

They use a range of organic materials to create their clothes, and equally as important, work with factories and mills that are committed to improving the working conditions of their staff, and are reducing carbon emissions.

For example, their work with San Francisco based D.A.D. Sewing House, a nonprofit that employs people going through hard times or who have had employment issues in the past, like homelessness, incarceration or mental health issues. They also work with a range of other factories using their work to make a positive impact.

Sustainability: All vegan materials, GOTS certified facility, plant tree f or every item sold

What they make: Womenswear

Valani is a sustainable plant-based, vegan clothing line based in California, but all of their garments are ethically produced in Chicago, as well as a GOTS certified facility in India.

They use hemp, Tencel and banana fabrics to create beautiful, flowy and flirty garments with the perfect amount of feminine flair.  

All fabrics are biodegradable so they can be composted at the end of their useful life.  As a brand built on compassion and self love, they have a few giveback initiatives. 

Not only do they plant 1 tree for every garment sold, but they also offer free breathwork sessions for their community.

We chatted to founder Vanni, who told us she wanted to create a brand who’s clothing was fun, flirty, bold and feminine.

Location: San Francisco // Online

Sustainability: Made in California, built to last

What they make: Denim, menswear

Tellason are a San Francisco-based denim brand. They create high-quality selvage denim, jackets, shirts, and accessories.

They’re committed to maintaining their California-based production and the culture around their denim making process.

Tellason isn’t cheap, but the quality and craft that goes into every item makes it worth it.