We’re on a mission to rewrite the story of the global fashion industry.
Our Ethical Approach
At COA we think transparency is a necessity & honesty is cool. So, you won't be finding us hiding any dirty secrets. 🕵🏼♂️
While a £4 T-shirt sounds like a right ol' barg - someone, somewhere, has got to be paying the price for that, right? Whether that's exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, unsafe working conditions, or crazy-low wages - we don't think anyone should have to suffer for the sake of cheap fashion.
Ready to get educated? Follow the link below for an interactive online documentary ‘Shirt on Your Back’ - tracing the human cost of the garment industry in Bangladesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/apr/bangladesh-shirt-on-your-back
That's why we are committed to making earth-conscious streetwear that looks good on everybody, at the cost of nobody. 💪🏼
Our fabric is woven in Leicester, UK - and our garments are manufactured by 5 lovely ladies in a factory just down the road. They are then sent to another local business to be garment dyed.
We have taken personal responsibility to assess all of the factories that we use, and have deemed their working conditions as excellent. Plenty of tea and a good selection of bickies. Perfect. 🍪☕️
As it stands, there are very few ‘unknowns’ in our supply chain - and in the interest of total peace of mind - we plan to visit the organic cotton farm in India that supplies our fabric mill in the very near future.
Our Environmental Impact
Maybe you haven’t thought about the environmental impact of your clothes before, but the effects of the fashion industry on our planet are huge. 🤯
Textile production creates 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon every year - more than EVERY international flight combined ✈️ - and that is just the beginning.
The story of how our clothes come to be is a fascinating, terrifying and dirty tale that desperately needs to change.
We’re here to clean things up.
At Church of Antioch, we believe in small changes leading to bigger ones.
We’re creating fashion for the future - clothes that care about people and the planet at every step of the process, or as we like to put it ; ‘streetwear with good intentions’.
We work with as many innovative, sustainable fabrics as possible, and will do our best to reduce our environmental impact wherever we can - using local manufacturers, natural fibers, recycled textiles, deadstock fabrics, low-impact or natural dyes and recycle-able and biodegradable packaging.
We’re not perfect and our standards will always be evolving - but we wake up every day with the intention to do better - for the sake of people, and the sake of our planet.
Good clothes, for good people, for good reasons. 👊🏼
Our Quality
“Buy less, but buy better” - that’s what we live by.
If you opt out from buying into cheap, one-wear, fast fashion brands - you start to change the way the whole fashion system works. Less demand for short-lived fashion = less waste & less exploitation.
Good things happen when we choose to buy better.
At COA, we only produce premium quality garms that we’re proud of. From conception right through to completion, each piece is designed and made to be worn for a lifetime.
When you wear our clothes you should feel like you’re changing the freakin’ world - because… well, you are.
Introducing the Charity Partnership
We’re more than your typical client and brand ensemble.
You and we - we’re on the same team, cut from the same cloth. We want the same thing, right? To leave the world in a better way than we found it.
The heart behind Church of Antioch is to ultimately give back more than we take out.
That’s why we’ll be giving 20% of our profits to a charity that we think is doing something AWESOME.
Eden Reforestation Projects
A non-profit organisation whose mission is to provide fair wage employment to impoverished villagers in Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nepal, Haiti, Indonesia, & Mozambique as agents of global forest restoration.
They hire the poorest of the poor to grow, plant, and guard to maturity native species forest on a massive scale.
By the year 2025 their objective is to plant a minimum of 500 million trees each year and to offer hope through the employment of tens of thousands of people in countries where extreme poverty is rampant.
The destruction of healthy forest systems causes so many different problems. Trees provide a habitat for animals, purify water sources, control flooding and erosion and help to replenish the soil with nutrients needed for farming. When farmers can’t grow anything their farms fail and they have no option but to move to the overcrowded cities looking for work. Often they have to resort to selling themselves or their families into slavery just to survive.
But everything lives where trees live.
Since the project began in 2004 they’ve planted over 260 million trees, & have created over 2 million work days for impoverished families in 5 different countries across the globe. That’s some impressive statistics!
Some even more exciting stats :
With every COA purchase, 327 trees will be planted across Haiti, Nepal, Indonesia, Mozambique and Kenya - providing 3 paid work days for the extremely impoverished villagers living near the tree farms.
Feels good, doesn’t it?
