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Hanna is the founder of the ethical and sustainable accessories brand [ GREEN CAT ]
Year founded: 2019
Design location, office: Neuillac, France 🇫🇷
Raw material sourcing locations: Da Nang, Vietnam 🇻🇳 ; Neuillac, France 🇫🇷
Manufacturing location, production: Neuillac, France 🇫🇷
Meet the founder
Hanna became familiar with materials after working in the textile industry for 10 years. She created Green Cat in 2019 with the desire to support local businesses and women in Vietnam. In 2020, Hanna moved to France, to the Cognac region, where she designs some of her products in her small workshop.About the brand
Green Cat is a collection of bags, hats and sustainable and ethical accessories. Raw and eco-friendly materials are a source of inspiration for the creation of the products. Indeed, they are made from natural materials such as hemp, cotton, linen, and carefully selected upcycled fabrics from Vietnam. Always in an eco-responsible approach, the brand works exclusively with producers who share its positive vision of people and the planet.
Green Cat's goal? To raise awareness about a sustainable future and help reduce its environmental impact through 100% ethical and sustainable products.
The eco-responsible impact
Sustainable development is very important to Green Cat. The brand tries to reduce its environmental footprint by making sustainable low-carbon impact products. Green Cat carefully monitors the manufacturing process and ensures that everything can be used and reused. As for the materials, the hemp (Hmong) comes from Vietnam and the linen from Europe. The other materials also come from European countries such as cork, which, for example, comes from Portugal. The traditional fabrics are handwoven by minority groups in Asia. The Green Cat team is in direct contact with the local artisans who grow, spin the yarn, and traditionally weave the hemp.The details of the values
The brand sources high-quality fabrics in addition to its textile panel to make its products.
Green Cat recycles their fabric scraps to make new products.
Some products, notably the hat collection, are made by the designer in her workshop in the Cognac region in France.
The hemp textiles are handmade by local Vietnamese communities. The products are designed in Vietnam in a small family workshop.
Traditional know-how passed down from generation to generation by the communities of northern and central Vietnam. This ranges from growing hemp to processing it into yarn and fabrics. The dyeing techniques differ from one village to another.
Green Cat works with rare fabrics, notably made from hemp, which, being handwoven, requires a longer production time. They also depend on the production of the villages. Thus, the brand only offers collections in small quantities.
Regarding hemp textiles, Green Cat practices fair trade with the local communities in Vietnam. In addition, the brand ensures them a decent wage and working conditions.
Cork is extracted by a natural process that helps preserve the trees. Only the bark is harvested, every five to 7 years.
[ With Green Cat, my wish is to connect the traditional Vietnamese know-how of handmade and naturally dyed textiles with European specialty materials such as linen and cork, through accessories & bags alive by and for women. The brand also represents a bridge between my origins in Vietnam and my new life in France. ]
