We’re Proud to Play a Big Part in the Circular Economy
BVH Services, is the innovation hub created by Bank & Vogue. They disrupt fashion’s linear business model by consulting and working with global forward-thinking brands, designers, and textile recyclers to reuse discarded clothing as input to new manufacturing. BVH incubate sustainable solutions via 4 silos:
Mechanical & Chemical recycling
Components for manufacturing
Circular design/upcycling at scale
Brand solutions for deadstock
Our Dream Is To Reclaim, Reduce and Reuse 10 Billion Items.
We believe in maximizing the value hierarchy of textiles so nothing ends up as waste. Last year, our group of companies Bank and Vogue, Beyond Retro and BVH Services rehomed 90 million items. It’s an amount we’re proud of but only a small percentage of our goal.
We Know Both Fashion and Sustainability – Our Two Brands
BVH Helps Make The Fashion Landscape
More Sustainable Through Our Services
Components
Customized components for “new” manufacturing made from post consumer textiles
Remanufacturing
One of a Kind Apparel & Bags made from post consumer textiles
Repair
Robust Repair Program that gives a second life to gently worn garments
Recommerce
Ecommerce Photo-Processing of Take Back or Rrepaired product for recommerce
Deconstruction
Deconstruction of goods into parts, maximizing end of life options
Recycling
Mechanical and Chemical recycling
Working Together, United in One Big Goal: A
Bright & Sustainable Future
BVH is committed to driving business value while working within the framework of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) set out by the United Nations and the global community.
The Bank and Vogue model is such that we support multiple charities in North America by purchasing their unsellable donated textiles.
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is proud to sponsor local orphanage in Gujurat India by providing food, electricity, eyewear and dental. We are proud to promote education and equality for the 50 plus girls that live there. With the generosity of our customers, suppliers and friends who have raised funds we also built a study hall for the girlst at the orphanage.
BVH believes that good quality jobs in the garment sector can catalyze women’s economic empowerment, offer social protection, provide work & family balance. Greater than 50% of the senior management within the Bank and Vogue group of companies are women & the company was co-founded by one of the Quantum Shift Entrepreneurs in Year 2017, Helene Carter.
Every stage of the clothing production cycle involves the use of water. According to the WWF, It takes approximately 2700L of water to grow the cotton needed for one t-shirt. In 2018 BV moved over 90million lbs of used clothing, thereby avoiding the use of more than 243 billion gallons of water.
BVH processed more than 40,000 tonnes of used apparel in 2018 thereby saving an estimated 100 000 tonnes of CO2. Further, the retail arm of the organization, Beyond Retro is carbon neutral and the world headquarters in Ottawa is adopting renewable energy in the form of solar panels.
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is committed to substantially reducing waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse. In 2018, the BVH group of companies sold millions of pieces of used clothing thereby promoting sustainable consumption.
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Fibers Initiative which is seeking to define a new vision for a new global fibers sytem, based on the principles of a circular economy.
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
BVH is busy working towards this goal for 2020!
Our Partners
Proud To Support
BVH prides itself on being a team player and supporting organizations whose efforts are focused on a greener and more circular approach to fashion and production.
- A member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Circular Fiber Initiative
- A member of WRI Used Textiles Work Group
- Support – WEAR Conference
- Board of SMART members
