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Triarchy Sustainability Actions

Founded Triarchy in 2011

The Taubenfligel siblings – Mark, Adam, and Ania – exemplify this paradigm shift. They started their family company, Triarchy, in 2011 as a direct-to-consumer women’s jeans brand.

Overhauled denim manufacturing

That changed, however, the day Taubenfligel discovered the water-guzzling wastefulness of making jeans while visiting a denim production factory in China. Not content to be “just another irresponsibly consumptive denim brand,” Taubenfligel says he and his team completely overhauled the company into a luxury wholesaler committed to the highest standards of sustainability.

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Uses lower-impact materials

This includes using eco-friendly materials like certified organic cotton, recycled cotton, hemp, and natural rubber, as well as adopting practices such as recycling any wastewater that is produced and limiting the use of chemicals in production.

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Uses third-party ecolabels

To cement the bond of trust, Triarchy also has its practices validated by third-party sources. The term for this external stamp of approval is ecolabeling: the practice of using recognizable and reputable symbols to demonstrate that a company’s products and services are genuinely better for the environment than comparable products. To date, Triarchy’s ecolabels range in scope from PETA’s Approved Vegan to the Global Organic Textile Standard and Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals.

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Eliminated pre-wash water use

The company has eliminated using water to pre-wash jeans to give them a slightly bleached or lived-in look by instead taking air from the atmosphere and transforming it into ozone using specialized machinery.

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Uses laser and e-flow finishing

Other innovations employed by Triarchy include laser technologies that distress and add details to denim without any toxic sprays, and e-flow technology, which uses non-toxic enzymes on the skin of nano bubbles. When these nano bubbles come into contact with the jeans, they burst and create an abrasion similar to stone washing, using only minimal amounts of water and producing very little waste.

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Launched Cellsius capsule

According to Triarchy cofounder Adam Taubenfligel, going green is a group effort, which is why the family-owned-and-operated denim brand agreed to be the creative partner, linking with several manufacturers and suppliers for a denim capsule that can be recycled without being manually deconstructed, a primary reason most denim pieces ends their life cycle in landfill.

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