Sustainability
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
The wool chosen for Filò garments is certified, either OEKO-TEX or GOTS, meeting careful standards for purity, safety, and environmental care. These are fibres from animals tended with respect and from landscapes shaped by patience. Their honesty is something synthetic materials cannot offer.
Filò works solely with natural, mulesing-free wool: pure wool and merino wool. For this collection, one yarn sits slightly apart, a gentle blend of eighty percent merino and twenty percent alpaca, used only for the women’s Tate’s vest in a single colour called Harvest. A hue that feels like late summer fields, warm grain, and slowing light. Nothing excess. Nothing hurried. Just living fibres that breathe with the body and soften with the seasons.
Each piece is fully fashioned on a manual knitting machine and finished by hand, honoring both the rhythm of craft and the quiet integrity of the wool itself.
WHY WOOL
Wool is shaped by seasons, weather, and open fields. It is one of the earth’s most sustainable fibers, natural, renewable, and fully biodegradable. When its long life is complete, it returns to the soil without leaving a trace.
Wool warms without weight, cools when needed, and breathes with the body. It holds colour and structure with a steadiness that reflects the landscapes it comes from. When cared for gently, wool ages with grace. It softens, settles, and becomes more familiar, carrying the memory of its wearer rather than any sense of wear.
The wool chosen for Filò garments is unmulesed and selected for its integrity. It honours the land that grows it, the hands that prepare it, and the body that will eventually live inside it.
COST PER WEAR
A Filò piece is made to stay, not to be cycled through. Fast fashion trades in speed and disposability, while slow craft offers something deeper: time, longevity, and a garment that gathers meaning as it is worn.
High-quality natural wool keeps its shape, colour, and softness far longer than synthetic fibres. When cared for with a little tenderness, a Filò garment moves through years rather than months, lowering its cost per wear with every season it accompanies you.
Wool rewards attention. Gentle washing, proper storage, and small repairs stretch its life far beyond what we have come to expect from clothing. With time, the fibers relax, the garment molds to the body, and a soft patina emerges, signs not of wear but of a life lived together.
Cost per wear is more than a calculation. It is a philosophy: fewer pieces, made well, worn often. A way of choosing garments that respect the land, the craft, and the person who will live inside them.
This is the Filò rhythm, slow, enduring, and quietly generous.