Green Forest sustainable clothing brand

The brand is “a vehicle for change, to reduce the negative impact of today’s textile industry, revitalize our environment and inspire all generations that change is possible and necessary.” 

Green Forest, a brand with a positive impact, designs garments inspired by geometry and nature. Each design has a personality and tells a story. Add small production and exclusive design and the result is shirts, t-shirts and sweatshirts for people in constant movement, high quality, versatile and with a very defined traceability.

The history of Green Forest goes back just five years. Where Joaquín and Clara wanted to create a project where they could unite the values with which they had grown up, we joined our creativity and Green Forest Wear was born, a brand that does not want to fill shelves but to inspire all generations, because change is possible and necessary.

The cotton used by Green Forest comes from Faridabad, India.  “In the production process,” explains Clara, “we do not use any insecticides or pesticides. We work under GOTs certification, which guarantees a toxic-free agriculture, with crop rotation and reused rainwater. Both the dyeing and the printing of the prints are done with biodegradable water-based dyes”. This process achieves toxic-free garments.

Sustainable Fashion Brand with a positive impact as a reference in Spain in order to promote the transparency, traceability and honesty that today’s textile industry needs.

Green Forest carries out the entire production process in India. “We decided to leave the entire production chain there because it seemed to us the most ethical and fair thing to do”.

That cotton would otherwise have to travel to some workshop in Spain, so we decided to leave all the magic of the garment there, from the cotton picking to the total realization of the garment. If we were to manufacture with another fabric that was from somewhere else we would do the same thing. The brand leaves a very positive impact on the socioeconomic fabric of the area.

In each production we try to reduce our impacts on the environment, and on the social side we are very involved with the factory in India. We carry out an external consultancy of the garments to know the environmental and social impacts, measuring is what makes us continue to evolve towards more sustainable garments.

And we hope that soon we will be able to launch a new collection with innovative fabrics here in Spain.

With each purchase in Green Forest we give a tree to our customer, in this way we create a close connection with our community and we make them participants of this project. 

Clara says that consumer awareness is a long-distance race. “Consumers are increasingly concerned about the environment, but we also have to educate them about the social side of sustainability, which is just as important”.

Crisis or no crisis, fashion will either be sustainable or it won’t be, says Clara. This is a phrase that Gema Gómez from Slow Fashion Next told me and I firmly believe in it.

It’s time to (re)connect with ourselves, with what surrounds us. And wear our values.