Ethical Fashion in Amsterdam
Hi there! It's been a while... I am truly sorry for abandoning the blog for such a long time after launching. I intended to post more - or at least something - in these past few weeks. But life happened. You know how it goes. ;-) But I am back with a tip to help you find your way around the good (or better) shops in Amsterdam.
A while ago I took the train to Amsterdam with two friends. We rented bikes and took off. Ready to see what Amsterdam has to offer when it comes to slow, sustainable and fair fashion shops. I created an online map so it would be easier to find the quickest route to our stops. We had the best day and my friends made some great ethical purchases. They were positively surprised by how nice the shops and their collections were. We concluded we should do another ethical shop tour soon!
I posted about our shop tour on instagram and received some enthusiastic responses. Some people even asked me if they could use my map. So for those who did not ask but are interested as well: here it is! I dug deeper into the stories behind the stores and added some more to the map. It is really cool to see how many slow, sustainable and fair shops Amsterdam has to offer! I will definitely use this map myself next time I am in Amsterdam, even though I joined the CollAction Slow Fashion Summer - meaning I will not buy new clothes until September 21st, 2018. (More about that later on the blog!)
Let me explain you how I stratified this map:
- The green pins show shops that offer a fully slow, sustainable and fair collection.
- The purple pins are the shops that offer a partially slow, sustainable and/or fair collection. For example the slow brand Nobody Has To Know manufactures in Amsterdam but the fabrics are not necessarily sustainable. The store Gekaapt offers a collection that consist for 80% out of ethical brands.
- The blue pins show the shops that offer vintage or second hand garments and accessories.
- The orange pins are department stores. They offer a couple ethical brands. But be careful, the majority they sell are conventional brands.
- The yellow pins are places where you can lease clothes. So Filippa K has two pins on the same address.
Disclaimer: I selected these shops and brands after doing some research. Unfortunately I have not visited all these places myself (yet). It could be that you do not agree with me on how I categorized the shops. Please let me know if this is the case and if you have some other addresses I should add to the map.
Happy ethical shopping!