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COSH! stan­ds for COn­s­ci­ous SHop­ping and hel­ps people wan­ting to live more eco­lo­gi­cal­ly find more sus­ta­ina­ble clot­hing. On our plat­form, you can dis­co­ver more sus­ta­ina­ble alter­na­ti­ves to fashi­on, cosme­tics and lifes­tyle pro­duc­ts. COSH! con­si­ders many per­so­nal pre­fe­ren­ces such as vegan clot­hing, cir­cu­lar opti­ons, orga­nic raw mate­ri­als or natu­ral ingre­di­ents. 

How did COSH! start? Our foun­der Niki de Schryver’s pione­ering work for Hones­t­by has alre­ady kick-star­ted growth in the tran­s­pa­ren­cy of other bran­ds in the fashi­on wor­ld. Howe­ver, she noti­ced the bran­ds were on board with this revo­lu­ti­on, but the con­su­mer was­n’t yet. The gap betwe­en con­su­mer beha­vi­our and the sup­ply cha­in intri­gu­ed her, so she inves­ti­ga­ted this and found a solu­ti­on. 

She won­de­red why so few people were buying more sus­ta­ina­ble clot­hing and sus­pec­ted that per­so­nal style and bud­get were the main reasons. The rese­ar­ch con­duc­ted con­fir­med her hun­ch. It takes too much effort for the con­su­mer to find ethi­cal and sus­ta­ina­ble fashi­on, and COSH! is here to sol­ve that problem!

At COSH!, we do not see sus­ta­ina­bi­lity as a black-and-whi­te story. The­re are many dif­fe­rent aspec­ts to sus­ta­ina­bi­lity. Few bran­ds sco­re on all cha­rac­te­ris­tics such as cir­cu­la­rity, natu­ral fibres, a short sup­ply cha­in, che­mi­cal-free, ethi­cal and local pro­duc­ti­on, zero was­te and car­bon neutra­lity. All the reta­ilers and entre­pre­ne­urs featu­red on the COSH! plat­form are stri­ving to build a bet­ter futu­re for fashi­on in the­ir own way. They are all com­mit­ted to a more sus­ta­ina­ble and ethi­cal indus­try and the­re­fo­re deser­ve COSH!‘s and the cus­to­mer’s full sup­port!

COSH! emp­ha­si­ses on local sto­res. The COSH! mem­ber reta­ilers are always local entre­pre­ne­urs and/​or reta­ilers that sell more sus­ta­ina­ble pro­duc­ts. This inclu­des a wide ran­ge of second-hand fin­ds, upcy­cled items, local­ly and han­d­craf­ted pro­duc­ts, col­lec­ti­ons made from orga­nic natu­ral mate­ri­als, etc. 

We express the sus­ta­ina­bi­lity of a brand using the COSH! Brand Index. Each mem­ber of the COSH! com­mu­nity (with the excep­ti­on of secon­d­hand sto­res) can requ­est a brand to be scre­ened each year. Using the COSH! Brand Index, we take into acco­unt 7 facets of sus­ta­ina­bi­lity: ethics (wor­king con­di­ti­ons), eco­lo­gi­cal (impact on the envi­ron­ment), cir­cu­la­rity, sup­ply cha­in, ani­mal well-being, slow fashi­on prin­ci­ples, and tran­s­pa­ren­cy of a brand. Our algo­rit­hm is also cons­tan­tly chan­ging and impro­ving, to keep up to date with the evol­ving indus­try. This way, we hope to dis­play each bran­d’s sus­ta­ina­bi­lity efforts fair­ly and com­ple­tely.
By con­sul­ting the COSH! Brand Index for a clot­hing brand, con­su­mers can easily see how the brand is doing in each aspect. At the same time, the deta­iled texts expla­in how each brand wor­ks towar­ds a more sus­ta­ina­ble future.

COSH! star­ted out in Bel­gi­um, but has sin­ce grown and expan­ded into the Net­her­lan­ds, Spa­in and Ger­many. COSH! aims to be your go-to plat­form, guiding you in your sus­ta­ina­bi­lity jour­ney and hel­ping you make more infor­med and ins­pi­red con­s­ci­ous shop­ping choices.