These goals represent our commitment to making a positive impact on people and planet while staying true to our core values.
We care deeply about our people and planet, so we’re continually investing time and resources into developing new ways to be circular.
We have partnered with CanopyStyle and Pack4Good initiatives as we strongly believe that no ancient or endangered forest shall be cleared in the name of fashion.
We are committed to:
– Reduce material waste through design innovation
– Maximise recycled content in packaging and fibres
– Explore the use of Next Generation fibres
– Use FSC certified wood for all paper packaging
Our Commitment to circularity
5 year repair promise
When you purchase Sunset Lover, we believe your piece should be cherished
and worn on repeat for years to come.
To promote circularity and reuse we are offering a 5 year repair promise so that we can assist you to get the most out of your Sunset Lover.
Repair guidelines
– mending seams
– broken stitching
– small holes or tears to woven fabrics
– button replacement
All other repairs to be assessed on an individual basis.
How it works
– email us fittings@sunsetlover.com with a brief description and photo of the area that needs mending.
– our team will asses the garment within 5 business days
– if the garment meets our repair guidelines, we will provide you with further details to ship your garment to us
– your garment will be repaired and an estimated timeline will be provided.
Please allow up to 4 weeks
– we will ship the repaired garment back to you free of charge
AIRROBE circular partner
Buy better. Resell later. Consciously repeat.
AirRobe makes reselling, renting or recycling your wardrobe easy. When shopping with us, simply ‘Add to AirRobe’ in one click to repurpose later.
AirRobe will save your purchased items to your own Circular Wardrobe™ so once you’ve worn and loved them, you can repurpose on the AirRobe pre-loved designer marketplace.
The more sustainable way to shop.
Packaging
We are committed to minimising the use of plastics within our ethical sourcing
and procurement strategies.
Our packaging strategy is plastic–free and has been developed to favour the use of responsibly sourced paper and bio-based materials.
We have and aligned with the 2025 National Packaging Targets.
We use recyclable Glassine Bags as an alternative to poly bags.
Glassine is smooth and translucent paper with FSC certification, that is pH neutral, acid-free, food safe and plastic-free.
Glassine paper provides protection against grease, water, air and moisture.
We use 100% plant based compostable mailers:
- Made from Corn-starch
- Australian certified: AS5810
- Home Compostable Certified & AS4736 Commercially Compostable.
We use 100% compostable packaging tape:
- Made from Corn-starch
We use Recyclable & Compostable Tissue paper:
- FSC Certified Paper
- Soy Based Ink
- 30% Recycled material and 70% new acid-free virgin pulp
We use Recyclable & Compostable paper for all printed materials:
- FSC Certified Paper
We use recycled FSC certified swing tags with bio resin swing tag selas and toggles.
Our Swing tag rope is GOTS Certified organic cotton.
Our garment cotton labels are made from GOTS cerfified organic cotton.
our suppliers
Sunset Lover currently manufactures in Turkiey, India and China.
Our overall mission is to lower our carbon emissions across our supply chain.
Because there is no fabric production in Australia, transporting fabric internationally for production locally will create unnecessary carbon emissions which is not in line with our overall business goals.
Silk Production China
This manufacturer produces all our silk garments. They are GOTs certified and employ a vertical supply chain providing visibility on all aspects of production from Mulberry Trees to finished garments. Pays the living wage.
China
This manufacturer produce our cellulosic fabrics and linen. We are currently sourcing Ramie and Hemp together. Pays the minimum wage.
India
This manufacturer produces our organic cotton fabrics and cellulosic embroidery. Pays the living wage.
Our 2 year goal is to work solely with manufacturers that pay
the living wage.
Audits
We see third party audits annually across all our manufacturing partners to ensure compliance and safety standards are met.
Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) is the world's largest factory-based certification program for manufacturers of clothing, footwear and other sewn products.
The WRAP program regularly auits and certifies facilities for compliance with the 12 WRAP Principles which assure safe, legal and ethical manufacturing processes.
All Sunset Lover manufacturers are Gold Standard WRAP Certified.
All our suppliers sign our Code of Conduct and Animal Welfare Policy available here:
Giving back
$1 FROM EVERY SALE IS DONATED TO i=Change.
The power of your purchase goes beyond our product.
We have consciously selected i=Change partnerships that align with our goals to leave a better planet, to support education and those in need.
End of life solutions
Completed
Our commitment to a zero plastic policy in our fibres and packaging began after our first compost trial, conducted with scientists at Neutrog Australia on our inaugural collection in 2022.
Watch CEO and Creative Director, Melanie Flintoft explain the process.
Our biggest learning was on a fabric composition of 97% Cotton with 3% Elastane. The trial showed us that just 3% elastane in a fabric is all that remains after 51 days in compost.
Seeing these results was the resolute turning point for Sunset Lover. Since our inaugural collection we now reduce our fossil fuel impact through our zero plastic policy.
In Progress
Sunset Lover R&D is currently spearheading compostable trials in collaboration with Peats Soil and BiobiN. This marks our stride toward becoming the inaugural certified compostable luxury fashion brand.
The trial we will be looking into broad range of fashion items that are changeable every season and how this can be composted taking into consideration different fabric types, garment constructions, trims, fusing, elastic, zips and labelling.
Our aim is to develop a method of composting a complex garment.
The trial will take an approach using Oeko-tex (Chemical testing standard) and physical composting tests to ensure our fabrics and garments will not leave anything harmful behind.
At Sunset Lover we believe in making a positive impact for People and Planet. This trial and our goal to leave nothing behind is our way of enacting this.
