Understanding Your Fashion Footprint
Shopping preloved on Vestiaire Collective helps you avoid significant CO₂ emissions compared with buying new. As a 100% circular business, when you buy a pre-loved piece with us you avoid the production of a new item—and therefore a lot of the impact on the planet.
By choosing to give high-quality fashion a second life we can all become part of a more conscious system where we value what we wear, care for it, and make it last.
Reducing Your Impact
Textile production is one of the top contributors to water use and greenhouse gas emissions, with new clothing production to blame for the majority of fashion's environmental footprint (from plastic pollution to high water consumption). That means every time you buy a new item, it comes with an environmental cost.
So, what can you do? When you choose preloved with Vestiaire Collective you avoid up to 90% of the environmental impact of buying new. In other words, you can shrink your carbon footprint up to 10 times...
Behind the Stats
Think shrinking your carbon footprint sounds too good to be true? Here's how it works:
When you buy a second-hand item, nothing new has been produced. That means fewer carbon emissions and significant water savings. Plus, you're preventing textile waste by keeping the item in circulation and diverting it from landfill and—eventually—incineration.
Our Collective Impact
Our community have been giving clothes a second life since 2009, preventing overproduction, avoiding overconsumption, and proving that the most sustainable piece you can buy is the one that already exists.
Together our Collective has avoided 300,000 tons of CO₂—with one fifth of that in 2024 alone. That's the equivalent of avoiding the environmental impact of more than 170,000 return flights from Paris to New York.