My Little Cozmo

My Litt­le Coz­mo is a Spa­nish child­ren’s clot­hing brand. Based in Bar­ce­lo­na, this is whe­re not only the design pha­se but also the pro­duc­tion hap­pens. By having all clo­thes pro­du­ced in their own, local area, My Litt­le Coz­mo has direct con­trol over the who­le pro­cess. Part of the pro­duc­tion they do them­sel­ves, the rest is done in small pro­duc­tion work­shops in the area. By doing so, the brand also aims to pro­vi­de employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties for women in the area. 

Seve­ral My Litt­le Coz­mo pro­ducts are cer­ti­fied by GOTS (Glo­bal Orga­nic Tex­ti­le Stan­dard). This not only means that the pro­ducts are made of orga­nic cot­ton, but also that strict envi­ron­men­tal and social stan­dards are fol­lo­wed. The cer­ti­fi­ca­te also checks working con­di­ti­ons throug­hout the pro­duc­tion process.

My Litt­le Coz­mo uses a varie­ty of sustainable and non-sus­tainable mate­ri­als in their coll­ec­tion. The brand aims to use more sus­tainable and natu­ral mate­ri­als in the future. In par­ti­cu­lar, My Litt­le Coz­mo is incre­asing­ly using GOTS-cer­ti­fied orga­nic cot­ton. The GOTS cer­ti­fi­ca­te (Glo­bal Orga­nic Tex­ti­le Stan­dard) gua­ran­tees that no che­mi­cals were used in the pro­duc­tion pro­cess and that the pro­duct was made in ethi­cal conditions.

The garm­ents made from con­ven­tio­nal cot­ton do have the BCI label (Bet­ter Cot­ton Initia­ti­ve). This is an initia­ti­ve that encou­ra­ges cot­ton pro­du­cers to use fewer che­mi­cals. It also moni­tors the water use and soil qua­li­ty at the plan­ta­ti­ons. Howe­ver, the BCI label is not as strict, which means that only a small per­cen­ta­ge of cot­ton has to be of ​“bet­ter” ori­gin. You can read more about that here.

Unfort­u­na­te­ly, My Litt­le Coz­mo also uses less sus­tainable mate­ri­als. For exam­p­le, some garm­ents are made of poly­es­ter, poly­ami­de and poly­acrylic. With the­se and other syn­the­tic mate­ri­als, the­re is a risk of micro­pla­s­tics being released during washing of the clo­thes. Micro­pla­s­tics are very small par­tic­les of pla­s­tic that can be car­ri­ed into rivers and oce­ans. To pre­vent this, you can wash syn­the­tic clo­thes in a Gup­py­fri­end, a laun­dry bag that coll­ects the microplastics.

The cir­cu­la­ri­ty of a pro­duct depends on the mate­ri­als it is made of. A pro­duct made from a blend of dif­fe­rent mate­ri­als is more dif­fi­cult to recy­cle than one made from a sin­gle mate­ri­al. Clot­hing made from a natu­ral mate­ri­al and which is free of che­mi­cals, for exam­p­le orga­nic cot­ton, is even biode­gra­da­ble. The­r­e­fo­re, how cir­cu­lar it is varies for each My Litt­le Coz­mo product.

My Litt­le Coz­mo has a short sup­p­ly chain. The brand uses mate­ri­als sourced from Euro­pean manu­fac­tu­r­ers and also pro­du­ces their coll­ec­tion in Euro­pe. So the clo­thes don’t have to tra­vel long distances to get to you!

Various ani­mal mate­ri­als are used in My Litt­le Coz­mo’s coll­ec­tion. But the brand has its own poli­cy limi­ting the use of ani­mal mate­ri­als. Seve­ral mate­ri­als are ban­ned from the coll­ec­tion: fur, mohair, hides, con­ven­tio­nal silk and mate­ri­als from end­an­ge­red forests.

Wool is used, but only mule­sing-free wool. Mule­sing is an ani­mal-unfri­end­ly prac­ti­ce whe­re skin from the sheep is cut away wit­hout anaes­the­tic to avo­id infections.

Down is used in some garm­ents. For this, My Litt­le Coz­mo uses upcy­cled down. This way, no ani­mals are direct­ly invol­ved in the product.

My Litt­le Coz­mo makes qua­li­ty baby and child­ren’s clot­hing. The designs are a mix of retro styl­es and modern influen­ces. The coll­ec­tions fea­ture bright colours, colourful prints and ruffles.

The brand encou­ra­ges their cus­to­mers to take care of their pro­ducts. With its ​‘con­scious care ins­truc­tions’, the brand aims to pro­vi­de tips on how to keep clo­thes loo­king gre­at for lon­ger. This way, My Litt­le Coz­mo hopes that thanks to the pro­lon­ged life­span of their pro­ducts, more child­ren will be able to enjoy them. In doing so, the brand also encou­ra­ges to repair garm­ents (or have them repai­red) when neces­sa­ry, ins­tead of repla­cing them.

My Litt­le Coz­mo does tell about their pro­duc­tion loca­ti­ons, but is not spe­ci­fic about it. Becau­se the brand uses many dif­fe­rent mate­ri­als, it is also not always clear whe­re the mate­ri­als come from.