Our Journey

Now is the time for change. At Isabella Oliver, We believe that sustainable fashion is the key to a greener world, as at the moment, the fashion industry is the number two polluting sector, second only to oil.

This is why we are constantly finding ways to understand, manage and improve our social and environmental impacts. For example, from 2019 to 2020, we are using over 35% more low impact fibres in our manufacturing. We are also testing out upcycling womenswear with our sister brand Baukjen. We are collecting used maternity wear and finding a new home for it. Recently, we had a garment reach its fourth home, which we are very proud of.

Since March, most businesses have been struggling due to the Coronavirus pandemic. At House of Baukjen, we have done all that we can to ensure our employees are being paid a living wage, and satisfaction and safety is at a high point. We have also promoted one of our interns to a full time role, creating an opportunity during these hard times.

This year, we are proud to be a Pending Certified B Corp Corporation accredited business, for meeting the highest standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. You can read more about B Corp here

We are excited to have been invited to sign The Fashion Pact earlier this year; a coalition with the objective of addressing the fashion industry’s impact on the environment; joining around 250 other brands and groups across Luxury, Fashion, Sports and Lifestyle. We are committed to a common core of key environmental goals in three areas: preventing global warming, restoring biodiversity, and restoring the oceans to work towards a more sustainable future. This is in line with the Paris agreement to keep a global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius pre industrial levels by 2050. We support the adoption of ‘circularity’ principles across our brands such as the sourcing of regenerative raw materials, material efficiency and recycling/upcycling. This includes both ‘design for circularity’ and addressing the end of life of materials and products.

Please see more about the Fashion pact here

We are implementing Science Based Targets for nature to achieve measurable goals in the areas of climate change, biodiversity, and oceans along with around 900 other companies. We have pledged to reduce our Greenhouse Gas Emissions and be net neutral by 2030. We have also committed to implement 50% renewable energy across own operations by 2025 and 100% by 2030. Our packaging is already 100% plastic free, and we are on a journey to eliminate single use plastic in our entire supply chain by 2025. We have also pledged to support material and process innovations that have no negative impact on key species and ecosystems. We are also ensuring that we do not contribute to the loss or degradation of natural forests. Please see more about Science Based Targets here: sciencebasedtargets.org and sciencebasedtargetsnetwork.org

Isabella Oliver is now a member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. This enables our company to use facility, product, and brand tools to measure and evaluate our impact on social and environmental aspects of our business. Being a member is very exciting and will help us be more transparent in our business.
Please see more about the Sustainable Apparel Coalition here