SUSTAINABILITY
Since 2014, design and quality at Infantium Victoria have been inseparable from a simple rule: we only say what we can prove. In July 2019 we received the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certificate — today we are certified by Control Union Certifications, licence CB-GOTS-CUC-03-1010632, valid to 30 June 2027 — and most of our garments have been created in GOTS-certified factories with GOTS-certified materials since the beginning of our journey.
Our entire range has been vegan since 2015 — made without any animal-derived materials: no wool, silk, leather or fur. Traceability, transparency and fair work are not buzzwords here but the pillars we build on. Each product on our website lists the materials used, their suppliers, and the names and locations of the facilities that made it — Lira Moden in Germany, Joaquim Gomes Texteis in Portugal, Nagesh Knits and Wear and Fabstract in India, among others.
Every pattern is handcrafted by Atelier D’andt in Vilvoorde, Belgium. From there, our production partners bring each piece to life — selected against rigorous criteria for resource use, waste management and working conditions, with third-party monitoring of each. And on every product page, the certification that applies to that exact piece is stated plainly; where we cannot prove a claim, we do not make it.
The numbers, not the adjectives
We measure what we'd rather brag about. In 2025:
- 76% of our production used fabrics covered by organic cotton Transaction Certificates — the per-batch proof behind every “organic” on our labels.
- 14% used organic-origin cotton yarn from a facility not itself certified — so those pieces are not labelled organic, however good their story.
- 10% was woven from our own recovered cutting waste by our partner Iro Iro in Jaipur, India.
- 38% of production used low-waste pattern designs, up from 10% in 2023 — against an industry norm of roughly 15% cutting waste.
We publish planned-versus-actual across more than 30 topics — including the targets we missed — in our annual Sustainability Report: read the 2025 edition.
To go deeper, explore the initiatives:
Locally Made, Celebrating Local Craftsmanship
We keep making close to home wherever we can: it shortens transport distances, keeps craftsmanship in view, and lets us visit the hands that sew our name into a garment.
Plastic-Free Packaging
Our packaging is plastic-free: FSC-certified, recyclable cardboard. Within Europe, parcels travel polybag-free.
Low-Waste Design Practices
Our cutting room works to low-waste patterns that use as much of every metre as design allows — 38% of 2025 production, up from 10% two years earlier. We say low-waste, not zero-waste, because cutting waste is dramatically reduced, not eliminated. The distinction matters to us.
Upcycling and Recovered Waste
Our own cutting scraps do not leave the story: they are rewoven into new cloth by our partner Iro Iro in Jaipur — 10% of 2025 production began life as our own waste.
Circular by Design
A garment's life doesn't end when it's outgrown. Send any Infantium Victoria piece back to our Hannover atelier and we'll thank you with a 20% voucher for your next order — each returned piece is repaired where needed and given a second life through our Preloved shop on Brandback. The loop starts earlier still: recovered cutting waste rewoven into new cloth, deadstock fabrics given a purpose, low-waste patterns in the cutting room. Read how the whole circle works →
Women Empowerment
Our collaborations with organizations like Tharangini Studio and Lira Moden are commitments to the women who make fashion possible — weaving equality and opportunity into every fabric.
Encouraging Repairs
We stand by the durability of our garments — and by their menders. Write to us and we'll send you our Repairs booklet, or help you find a repair partner near you. A garment that can be mended is a garment that was made honestly. More on our circular programme →
Social Commitment
Beyond our own walls, we back initiatives that educate and uplift communities — tangible work for the people who will inherit both the clothes and the world.
This page is the map; every product page is the proof. Explore the collections and read the labels — we wrote them to be read.
Materials
Our fabrics are plant-based: organic and organic-origin cotton, hemp, linen and Weganool™. You will never find polyester or nylon in the cloth we cut — and never, anywhere in our clothes, PVC, conventional dyes, chemical finishes or any animal-derived input. Elastane appears only in small blends of 2–5% where garment fit requires it, and functional components — sewing threads, zips, elastics — may contain polyester or polyurethane where durability demands it. Day in, day out we work with named, trusted suppliers to keep that promise, and we list them below because transparency without names is just decoration.
Our Suppliers
The descriptions below reflect each supplier's own published standards and certifications. We link to every one of them so you can follow the evidence for yourself.
A Dutch company founded by Marita Bartelet in 2005, supplying fabrics, yarns and dyes. They work almost exclusively with natural fibres; for us they supply plant fibres — organic cotton, hemp and linen. Ecological Textiles has been a GOTS-certified company since 2013, and considers the certificate the best guarantee that cotton comes from organic agriculture and that every following step — weaving, knitting, dyeing, finishing — respects both environmental and social standards: fair wages, good working conditions, no forced or child labour.
Based in Berlin, Lebenskleidung works in small teams and visits its producers in Portugal, Turkey and Germany in person — a very personal sourcing department. Most of their fabrics are made of 100% GOTS-certified cotton, turned into beautiful, durable jerseys and sweats with their production partners.
At c.pauli GmbH, organic cotton is processed without chemical modification of the fibre — robust, long-lasting, and noticeably softer and more breathable than conventional cotton. Raw materials come from Turkey.
Gebr. Elmer & Zweifel — Cotonea
A German cotton house in Bempflingen, in the fabric trade since 1855. Their organic brand Cotonea grows its own cotton in partnership projects in Kyrgyzstan and Uganda — fibre followed from field to fabric — and the company is GOTS-certified. Some of our sweats and jerseys begin on their looms.
Our regular supplier for exclusively developed fabrics. Established in 1927, this Portuguese company invested in its own effluent treatment plant, which regenerates the water used in the industrial process so it can be re-used.
The organic cotton in our skirts, pants, capes and jackets comes from the Lyon area, France. Pastels brings more than 30 years of experience producing quality fabrics under European social and environmental law.
Super-soft organic cotton jerseys from the Italian region of Modena. Every season they present their GOTS organic cotton and linen collections.
Italian cotton yarns of superior quality since 1958, spun from 100% Egyptian cotton grown on farms the company acquired directly in Egypt. Processes and products are certified and managed to protect the environment and the health and safety of workers and consumers alike.
Société Choletaise de Fabrication
For ribbons and laces we trust this French maker, whose policy is to use exclusively organic or recycled materials — organic cotton, jute, linen, bamboo — coloured with 100% natural agents and produced on renewable electricity from the Maine-et-Loire region.
Our coconut-shell buttons are custom made and embossed with the Infantium Victoria logo by this German button maker near Lake Constance.
Fine buttons from Germany — a house devoted to “edle Knöpfe”, with collections inspired by nature in wood, corozo and thread.
A Spanish weaver combining imagination with textile technique, certified by Ecocert for organic and recycled textiles, and a regular presence at Milano Unica and Première Vision.
A Dutch wholesale house for fabrics and haberdashery with a dedicated GOTS-certified organic range — cloth with the paperwork to prove it.
A Berlin haberdashery rethinking the small parts that most brands never mention — including work with Lenzing's TENCEL™ fibres and membership in the Circular Rubber Platform for natural-rubber elastics. The details matter most where nobody looks.
A Fairtrade organic cotton clothing manufacturer in Tirupur, India — garments made from organic cotton under Fairtrade conditions, by people paid fairly for fine work.
A GOTS and OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified woven-fabric manufacturer in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India. Woven cottons and organic cottons — printed, yarn-dyed and fabric-dyed — made to order, in the small runs a house like ours actually needs.
Our long-term, women-led garment production partner in India — GOTS-certified and listed in the public GOTS supplier database, so you don't have to take our word for it. Many of the certified pieces in our collections are sewn by their hands.
The inventors of Weganool™ — a plant-based alternative to wool spun with wild-growing calotropis, a plant that needs no irrigation and no pesticides. We were the first to bring Weganool to children's fashion, and our material-innovation collaboration with Faborg continues.