12 May 2025
The Ultimate Guide for Vegan Shoes and Sneakers
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In a world where fast fashion is still supreme, more sustainable fashion influencers are bringing a breath of fresh air to the fashion industry. These inspiring personalities show that style and sustainability can go hand in hand. They share tips on their favourite more sustainable brands, second-hand gems, minimalist or colourful wardrobes (there is someone to match every style!), more conscious choices and motivate their followers to think just that little bit more conscious when it comes to clothing. Whether you are just starting to shop more sustainably or have been making more conscious choices for a while already, these influencers are a great source of inspiration and information.
So could you use some more sustainable inspiration for fashion and lifestyle? We recommend our favorite 19 inspiring, more sustainable fashion bloggers that you absolutely must follow! This way you are assured of your daily dose of more sustainable fashion & lifestyle inspiration.
More sustainable fashion influencers
Mumster
‘I believe that everyone can be an inspiration.’
“The main reason I started working in the fashion industry was the chance to work with like-minded, inspiring people. Every day I come into contact with the most driven people who work every day for positive change. In times when I have less energy and see the future a little more bleak, I look around me at all these amazing people and feel grateful.” Chanel Trapman has been running her company MUMSTER for years, creating video campaigns for changemakers in the fashion industry. Because of the work Chanel does, she is also a source of inspiration herself.
When Sara Smiles
Fashion activist and storyteller
Sara Dubbeldam has been working hard for years to inspire consumers to make more conscious choices through her blog When Sara Smiles. In addition, she is committed as a fashion activist to file lawsuits against large fast fashion giants such as Primark – and with success! She does this with great class and is therefore one of the most popular fashion activists of the moment. Her stories are always honest and come straight from her heart, but also show her expertise about more sustainable fashion.
Kiki Boreel
Model, speaker and climate activist
Kiki Boreel used to be a model, but she increasingly struggled with her modeling work. Now she uses her looks and expertise for a better world as a climate activist. “If my looks help to get the climate story out there, why not?” She is the founder of the Sustainable Fashion Circle, a group of Dutch fashion activists who independently fight for a fairer and more sustainable fashion industry.
Michelle Amo
Colourful, creative influencer
When you look at Michelle Amo’s Instagram account, you immediately get a big smile on your face. Her colourful styles, vibrant energy and beautiful smile splash off the screen. With daily posts and stories, she inspires many with unique and often changing hairstyles, eccentric outfits and colourful combinations. In addition, she also makes works of art, which makes her a creative allrounder. We were therefore very honored when Michelle Amo modeled for our first more sustainable shopping map of Amsterdam! You spotted her beautiful appearance on the front of this map that is available at more than 100 more sustainable stores in Amsterdam.
Rashi Agarwal
More sustainable fashion advocate, feminist and comedian
Rashi Agarwal is a model, content creator and more sustainable fashion advocate. At the age of 20, she moved from her hometown in India to London to study at the London College of Fashion. Growing up in one of the largest production areas in India, it was a no-brainer for her to commit to climate, safer working environments and fairer wages in production countries during her career. She started her own fashion label and worked for the Fair Wear Foundation. She now inspires many with her strong, funny and activist videos on Instagram, in which she highlights cultural differences and social inequality.
My Slow World
Slow fashion inspiration
Alexandra is the face behind the blog My Slow World. With her blog and IG account she inspires people to choose slow fashion instead of fast fashion. Every week she shares a newsletter with her followers with great tips for a more sustainable lifestyle and shows how nice slow living is. She lives by this principle herself, she is a fan of making her own clothes and styles affordable, second-hand finds in creative ways. She is also a very welcome guest at our COSH! events. Go Alexandra!
Laura from the Desert
Zero waste and more sustainable fashion inspiration
Laura From the Desert is a Flemish blogger and shares tips & tricks for a more zero waste lifestyle on her blog and Instagram account. She commutes between Ghent and Biarritz, where she found her home near the ocean. On the beach of Biarritz she regularly does beach clean ups and shows her more sustainable and/or second-hand outfits. She shares how you can make a more sustainable lifestyle more fun and easier, by taking the bike more often, choosing organic and fresh food, traveling by train and using more natural beauty products. Laura has been a COSH! supporter from the very beginning and we love to see her lovely appearance at our community events!
Jordy Arthur
Eccentric fashion designer with inspiring ‘design with me’ videos
Jordy Arthur Vaesen is a fashion designer and content creator with an eccentric, distinctive style. He studied Fashion Design in Antwerp and currently lives in Belgium. From a young age, he was crazy about creation and fashion and took sewing lessons at the age of 15. He is now a leading fashion designer and regularly makes very successful ‘design with me’ videos in which he takes his audience through the design process. When it comes to sustainability, Jordy believes that it should not only be a marketing tool, but should be at the core of all entrepreneurs. “I constantly try to find the balance between conscious and business decisions. That is not always an easy balance, but through transparent and open communication with my community, I believe we can find the way.”
Charlotte van Daele
Colourful, cheerful fashion and interior inspiration
Charlotte van Daele inspires her followers with colourful and cheerful outfits from mostly more sustainable fashion brands and second-hand finds. She also likes to share creative, imperfect and colourful interior tips with content from her rental apartment in Ghent. She regularly goes out with her friends Laura From The Desert and Sabsjul (both also on this list!) to inspire her followers to shop more sustainably. Together they went on a shopping trip for COSH! to Arnhem to discover the more sustainable hotspots of Arnhem.
Sabsjul
Ex-shopaholic shares her imperfect journey to a more sustainable lifestyle
Choosing more sustainable fashion doesn’t always have to be perfect – and Julie Sabs knows all about that. As an ex-shopaholic, she takes you on her journey to a more sustainable lifestyle, choosing more sustainable and second-hand fashion, vegan food, more natural skincare and more. She also loves colour, so it also provides a pop of colour on your screen!
Eline Rey
Tips for dressing and buying more consciously
Meet more sustainable fashion & lifestyle blogger Eline Rey. Her blog not only looks very aesthetic, but also gives a lot of good information about how to buy and dress more consciously. Her style is minimalistic, timeless and she has not bought fast fashion for 7 years (!). She writes about fashion, skin care, travel and conscious living and how you can make it all environmentally friendlier.
Journey of a Stylist
Colorful and more sustainable fashion stylist
Do you know the colourful and cheerful fashion stylist Greet Moens? She shares about her more sustainable fashion journey on her blog and Instagram account Journey of a Stylist and she is a must to discover eclectic and colourful looks!
She helped COSH! with the styling during the shoot for the more sustainable shopping map of Bruges. We are always very happy with her positive energy and colourful looks that she brings into the world!
Lupe Castro
Fashion consultant, style curator and eclectic source of inspiration
Another colourful and eclectic presence on your screen is Lupe Castro. As a fashion consultant, speaker and style curator, she focuses mainly on sustainability within the fashion industry. Vintage, colour, upcycling and a mix of styles are central to her eccentric looks, which makes her appearance a constant source of inspiration. She also works for COSH! as a project manager to discover the Spanish-speaking market in the Canary Islands.
Upcycling and style coach influencers
Lemonade Amsterdam
Creative, upcycling fashion inspiration
Let us introduce you to the inspiring Nathalie Klok from Lemonade Amsterdam. With her Instagram account, she inspires you to be creative and more sustainable with clothing by upcycling. Her posts are full of tips on how to breathe new life into ‘old’ clothing in a unique way. She also shares tips on a slow lifestyle and regularly posts critical messages about the fast fashion industry.
Indiaan In Je Kast
Style coach, wardrobe sessions and more sustainable shopping
A few years ago, Chiara Spruit started her COSH! interview with this killer quote: “Society emphasizes characteristics that make us insecure, so we keep buying clothes that we don’t really need in the hope that we will feel better.”
Under the name Indiaan In Je Kast, Chiara Spruit shares about her own more sustainable fashion journey, the ups and downs with topics such as self-love, body acceptance, but also loneliness in the current era, because more and more people are concerned with what society expects. With her abundance of colour and joy, she inspires you to wear what you want. That is why Chiara also gives personal closet sessions where she helps you shop in your own wardrobe and cherish the clothes you already have.
Vegan influencers
Elisabeth van Lierop
Vegan & more sustainable family blogger
Elisabeth van Lierop is one of the most loyal slow fashion influencers we know and also a modest second-hand lover. However, her Instagram account is best known for the delicious vegan cuisine and the slow life with her family. She also shares the different dishes on her blog Plant Based and in her own cookbook. In addition, Elisabeth van Lierop shone on our second-hand shopping map of Antwerp in 2020!
Plant based dennis
Inspiration for a vegan lifestyle
Dennis Vink is a biologist, campaigner, speaker and foodie who inspires his followers to pursue a vegan lifestyle. He shares funny and informative videos about the meat and dairy industry and why it is best to avoid these animal products in your diet. His content has an activist edge and is combined with humor, facts and inspiration. He also went on a shopping trip for COSH! in Rotterdam to share his favourite hotspots.
Wouter Waayer
Farmer’s son & vegan influencer
The last inspiring influencer on this list is Wouter Waayer. He is a farmer’s son who wants to show that things can be done differently: pursuing a more sustainable, vegan lifestyle that is better for the planet and the animals. Based on his own experience in the countryside, he wants to show people where that piece of meat on their plate comes from and how things can be done differently. Despite receiving a lot of hateful reactions, he continues his mission, and we can only encourage this! He also went on a shopping trip for COSH! in Antwerp to share his favourite hotspots.
COSH!
More sustainable fashion inspiration
And last but not least: you can also follow our own COSH! account on Instagram! We share daily inspiration about more sustainable fashion, from informative posts about the fashion industry with a critical note to light-hearted shopping guides, events and inspiring ‘Meet the Maker’ videos.
