Welcome to City Totes
A slow fashion company offering handmade small batch production & limited edition collections.
City Totes is committed to designing with unused textiles that are designer leftovers, remnants & deadstock. This practice diverts these materials from the landfill to address the fashion industry's impact on the climate crisis.
Vivienne Westwood said it best: ‘Buy less, choose well, make it last.’
At City Totes we are passionate about the fashion industry's impact on the climate crisis and creating solutions.
The fashion industry is one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis. Due to fast fashion the industry accounts for nearly 10% of global CO2 emissions and consumes around 80 billion cubic meters of water (equal to 32 million Olympic-size swimming pools.) Only 15% of discarded textiles are recycled while the rest to end up in landfills.
Here is a Forbes article on Slow Fashion to learn more.