Kotn
Home Country: Canada
“Responsibly sourced basics with a fashion forward aesthetic”
Kotn is like “farm to table” but for your clothes. Their product line spans basics, minimalist aesthetic, and athleisure. Everything is responsibly sourced from Egypt, where every purchase helps support the lives of the farmers and their families.
Kotn
Home Country: Canada
“Responsibly sourced basics with a fashion forward aesthetic”
Kotn is like “farm to table” but for your clothes. Their product line spans basics, minimalist aesthetic, and athleisure. Everything is responsibly sourced from Egypt, where every purchase helps support the lives of the farmers and their families.
Transparency
- Kotn demonstrates a commitment to safe working conditions by rigorously questioning and regularly auditing their partners to ensure the best factory environments.
- Kotn has worked to ensure collaborative communities meant to sustain generations, not fiscal quarters.
- Kotn traces their supply chain on their website.
Fair Labor
- Kotn ensures their partners pay a fair and equal wage, and promises their makers a living wage.
- Kotn participates in direct trade with cotton suppliers, eliminating the need and cost of a middleman which guarantees fair prices before the work is done.
- Kotn invests back into their communities by working with a local NGO to provide every child in their farming communities with safe, convenient, and quality education.
- So far, Kotn has funded the building of 21 schools in Egypt.
- Kotn could improve Fair Labor by ensuring their Code of Conduct is available on their website.
Sustainably Made
- More than half of Kotn’s collection is made from sustainable fabrics.
- Kotn sources Egyptian cotton from small farmers, creating fine yarn that requires a high thread count, making their products stronger and long-lasting.
- Kotn uses OEKO-TEX certified non-toxic dyes.
- They help ensure sustainable sourcing with certifications including BCI and GOTS.
- Kotn could improve their sustainability by investing in circularity.
