When Kristi Soomer started the Toronto-based women’s ethical clothing brand Encircled nearly seven years ago, her goal was to create a high-quality capsule wardrobe concept for women made from sustainable materials and manufactured in Canada.
Today, the ethical clothing line uses several sustainable fabrics that are knit and dyed in Toronto – such as silky MicroModal, which is naturally derived from beech-tree pulp – and sources garment production among six local Toronto sewing studios, but getting to this point was not easy.
