Toronto Workshop and Boutique
Located in the north end of the west-side neighbourhood Roncesvalles, the shop is one of mainly dependently owned enterprises. The small town feel beside High Park, the biggest park in the city, draws eco-minded people supporting their local businesses and individual style. The Toronto studio is both studio and boutique, which features our bags and other sustainable fashion designers. It is open concept to illustrate our commitment to transparency. We are always in the back making things, where you can pop your head in and see for yourself.
The transparency of the process and its end result is critical to our mission. We want to show you how you're directly reducing waste from the landfills by supporting the recycling fashion movement.
All the designers are involved in making fashion and accessories by upcycling, reusing, sourcing organic materials, and providing ethical options for everyday. We have locally produced items, and international products focused on quality design and integrity. Fair wages and sustainable material choices are more and more important in a world of increasing insecurity. The conscientious purchasing one of a kind products over sweat labour and mass-produced items, supports the diversity of success without oppression. It empowers designers and clients, giving sway to a more diverse population that values individuality. Using what is considered to most as landfill destined industrial waste, and crafting it into helpful designs for life will ultimately fill in part of a future world picture.
Store Hours
Monday – Saturday: 12 – 7pm
Sunday: 12 – 4pm
(Other times could be arranged by appointment. Feel free to contact us >>)
Our Designers
Artech Studios is the result of over twenty-five years of collective research and education in art, glass and hot glass studio equipment.
Billy Would Craving sustainable fresh jewelery, Adea Chung created Billy Would designs in 2007. Offering beautiful and chic designs not found anywhere else. Each unique piece is handmade using recycled and reclaimed hardwood.
CBE Clothing Brand Experiment began in 2007 with a search to find the best hooded sweatshirt. When the search concluded with little results a design was created, a pattern was drafted and CBE was born. Alongside of an outstanding design, other goals was in mind: to have the whole production completed entirely in Toronto. Mission accomplished. From the milling of the fabric to the printing of the hang-tags, every CBE product is made with 50 km of the CBE studio downtown Toronto.
Dana De Kuyper has relocated from her hometown of Montreal to Toronto where the apartments are much smaller. Her Damned Dollies have graced the pages of Bust magazine, British Vogue, Marmalade, Strut, Elle Quebec and Zink. The band Trooper used Dana's Devil Girl image for their "Raise a little hell" tour T-shirts. They are a pretty cool band.
Dana's upcoming projects and plans include a fancy clothing line, a children's book and starting a lazy park gang in Toronto.
Epidemic 613 The Epidemic Collective - images hand-printed on second hand, locally sourced items, sweatshop free canadian products!
Embody Clothing is a fusion of style and function. The company strives to create unique and functional garments with an elegant yet edgy style. Our mission is to make women feel confident, comfortable, and to bring out the wearers individual personality. Every design is made in Canada without pre-existing patterns and fabric is bought in small quantities to insure originality. No more than 10 pieces are made with the same pattern and fabric. Try our eco friendly line of one of a kind designs made from recycled materials.
Sartoria In warm summer, Sartoria silkscreens on fair trade cotton shirts ... a crop circle collection and an edible weed collection. Aslo, Sartoria likes to make linen skirts you can both ride your bike in and collect berries with.
