IMPACT REPORT 2025

In 2025, we kept honoring our promise: offering an alternative to conventional fashion. How to scale up as a brand in an industry often blamed for its scale? For us, growth is about ensuring that we can keep supporting organic cotton growers, committed factories, and getting more people to switch to alternative fibers. So how did we do in 2025? Here are our main highlights and the challenges remaining in 2025.

HIGHLIGHTS 2025

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100% Recycled Denim made in Turkey

We launched our first ever jeans, made of 100% recycled cotton. Thanks to a new supplier in Turkey, we were able to source recycled denim, made from denim factory waste. Our jeans are designed with as few metallic accessories as possible, in a timeless shade of blue. They're made for durability and recyclability. We're proud of the result!

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GOTS #BTS 2025 - Five years of certification

In 2020, we got GOTS certified. In 2025, more than 57% of our product references were GOTS labelled. GOTS applies to organic fibers, and ensures that the whole supply chain follows strict environmental and social requirements. It is a label that we can trust, and that's why we were proud to participate in their GOTS #BehindTheSeams campaign for the second year.

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Plastic Free July

In the summer we promoted the Plastic Free July movement. The movement provides resources and idea to help anyone reduce their single-use plastic use. Nothing better than participating a global initiative to feel like small steps can make a big difference.

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Repair program

Early 2025 we tested a Repair program for a couple of weeks. The concept was simple: bring any garment that needs repair to your local tailor and get a discount on our website as a reward for taking care of your clothes. We all have a jacket that needs a new zipper or a dress that accidentally cracked after a night on the dancefloor. Whether it's just the result of usage or a happy accident, most garments can be repaired, and often for a lower cost than we think.

That goes hand in hand with our mission to offer durable and unique garments as an alternative to low-quality, trendy pieces.

This is also a way for a brand of our size, to make our garments more circular by encouraging users to keep them longer. We received great feedback from customers, even some who had nothing to repair just then, but appreciated the initiative. So we decided to launch a permanent Dedicated Repair Program in 2026, available as part of our upcoming loyalty program, for repairs of a Dedicated garment.

Stay tuned to not miss this launch, and start gathering your favorite Dedicated pieces that need a little love!

2025 production stats

We're comitted to produce garments that are always made of more sustainable fibers. That is organic, nature-based, or recycled fibers. But how does that look like in reality?

Bar chart of raw material consumption from 2022 to 2025, showing various material types and their proportions over the years.
Production 2025

Our fiber consumption

It’s always encouraging to see a strategy take shape in real life.

In 2024, we chose to refocus. During 2022 and 2023, we diversified our raw material mix and reduced our reliance on cotton. That shift brought new learnings and introduced fibers such as hemp and recycled wool, each with its own strengths and challenges. But with our relatively small volumes, it also limited our creative flexibility and meant we invested less in fairly traded and Regenerative Organic Certified® cotton. We saw the impact in both our collections and our sales.

 

So in 2024, we returned to our core fiber: organic cotton. And this strategy is paying off.

 

There is still important work to do to increase awareness around organic cotton and better farming practices. Through standards such as Fairtrade International and Regenerative Organic Certified® (ROC™), we support farming systems that aim to create measurable social and environmental benefits. Cotton also gives us greater design freedom — more colors, more prints, more possibilities.

 

Organic cotton remains our most important fiber from an environmental, social, and business perspective.

 

In 2025, cotton represented 83% of our total raw material consumption, up from 78% the year before. The share of Fairtrade and/or ROC™ cotton increased to 51.2%, compared to 47.2% in 2024. With this shift, we reached one of our key objectives: at least 50% of our total raw material volume is organic cotton certified by Fairtrade and/or ROC™.

 

We also expanded our use of recycled cotton, which helped us maintain a recycled fiber share close to 10%. In 2025, this figure stands at 8.9%, mainly due to a further reduction in recycled wool. We were not fully satisfied with the hand feel of the fabric, and the available recycled wool blends did not meet our expectations in terms of composition.

 

Our new 100% recycled cotton jeans have been the main driver of this development, and we plan to continue building this program in the years ahead.

Why certified materials matter?Learn more about the benefits of our materials
Pie chart titled "Production per country 2025" shows India 91%, China 7%, Turkey 1%.
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Update from our supply chain

For our 2025 production, we began two new collaborations.

 

We are proud to be working with Dibella India again, a few years after our previous partnership. Dibella India was founded in 2019 by Sreeranga Rajan, a long-standing advocate for organic and Fairtrade cotton in India. The company was built with a clear objective: to support local communities and organic cotton farmers by sourcing cotton directly from small-scale farms.

In their recent New Year’s greeting to partners, they shared:

 

“Alongside our continued work with 3,600 small-scale cotton farmers, we were able to add 492 additional farmers from the Haveri region of North Karnataka this year. We also initiated and continued support for 16 primary and middle schools around our production facility, creating positive impact for 1,171 students from our workers’ communities.”

 

In addition to cotton, Dibella works with other fibers such as European linen. Our linen program is produced with them, and for 2026 we are expanding the collaboration to include cotton styles as well. We value this partnership and the long-term relationships they have built with farming communities.

 

Our second new supplier is based in Turkey. When developing our 100% recycled cotton denim, we needed an experienced partner with strong relationships to established denim mills. We found that in RSR Tekstil. They work directly with Bossa, one of Turkey’s most respected denim fabric mills. Bossa invest in research and development aimed at reducing the environmental impact of denim production.

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Our challenges

Nothing is ever perfect, and if maintaining our efforts already is a lot of work, we also try to improve where we're lacking.


TRACEABILITY

We know 100% of our Tier 1 and 2, meaning all our finished product suppliers and all our fabric suppliers. We know about 80% of all our yarn producers. But past the yarn suppliers, it can be hard knowing where the fiber is produced or grown. When the cotton is Fairtrade or Regenerative Organic Certified®, which is the case for more than half of our cotton production, we know who the producers are. That is not the case for all of the cotton, or for all other fibers. We have introduced a new, more strict traceability system in the end of 2025, which will hopefully lead to more visibility into our supply chain.

Search for the little planet icon on our product pages to see all the known factories involved in the production of a product. Powered by our partner Retraced.

GOTS CERTIFIED PRODUCTS

We still have 6% of our cotton production that is not GOTS certified. The cotton is organic but we cannot ensure its compliance with the same strict requirements that GOTS can guarantee. This is due to one of our suppliers having difficulties with the traceability requirements of the standard. It is a administrative heavy process; every transaction needs to be covered by a certificate to prove its compliance. We're working with our supplier to improve this situation.

Carbon footprint

DEDICATED commits to reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 42% by 2030 from a 2022 base year, in line with a 1.5°C pathway under the Science Based Targets initiative SME route.


Based on our work with ClimatePartner, we have established a fairly reliable 2022 baseline for our Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon footprint. Although these represent only a small share of our total emissions—Scope 3 covers everything related to the production of our products—Scopes 1 and 2 are where we can take direct action and what we can most easily calculate with the resources currently available to us.

Scope 1 and 2 include emissions from our headquarters and our four stores, where the majority of the footprint comes from purchased electricity and heat.

Following the Science Based Targets initiative methodology, we need to reduce these emissions by 5.25% of the 2022 base-year emissions each year. Our baseline is 6.450 tCO₂e and it must decrease to 3.741 tCO₂e by 2030 in order to meet this target.

Sustainability reports from previous years

Below you’ll find our previous years' reports. Our sustainability report from 2024 was made in reference to GRI, following the best practices for reporting environmental and social impact. We want to be credible and responsible as a brand, and one way of being that is through transparency. Transparency is equally about sharing achievements as well as challenges and being honest about your improving areas. With that said, we’ll be sharing our journey towards changing the industry norm, including the good and the more challenging parts.

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sustainability report 2024
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Sustainability Report 2023
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Sustainability report 2022

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