Lenzing™ Modal

Known for its incredibly soft texture, we use locally sourced Lenzing™ Modal for our knit and jersey garments. This plant-based fiber is sourced from beech trees in responsibly managed forests, making it both renewable and biodegradable. 

Manufactured in a closed-loop process, 95% of the chemicals are captured and reused, dramatically reducing waste. 

We conducted a personal experiment to verify the biodegradable fact of MicroModal. To our incredible surprise, it fully reverted back to Nature in only 7 weeks. Check our video on IG.

Micromodal is our DNA fabric, it is finely knit and has a soft and silky feel, inspiring soft, flowing designs that drape beautifully on the body. It is a luxurious plant-based and regenerative fiber known for its exceptional softness and comfort, breathability and the garment made will always get back to its shape even if it is a supple and stretchable material.  It’s lightweight and resists wrinkling (which makes it fantastic for travel) and holds its color after repeated washing and wearing. 

Its fiber limits the proliferation of odors and bacteria, it does not retain water and therefore dries much faster than other fabrics. This semi-synthetic fiber is made from the pulp of beech trees. Beech trees are self-seeding plants and renewable resources. Our micro modal is certified from “LENZING™ to ensure the trees used in our fabric production are sustainably harvested and are not sourced from ancient and endangered forests.

Label and certify modal production is at the heart of our concern because every year forests of the size of Greece are taken down to be used in the process on non responsible or unethical wood factories used. This forest degradation contributes to the annual disappearance of thousands of animal and plant species. We are requiring labeled fabric also to make sure that not harvested, no civil rights of the people have been violated.

Canopy ranking Lenzing

“Leading in sustainable sourcing with a decade-long clean record

Wood and pulp are the most important raw materials for Lenzing’s sustainable production of cellulosic fibers. The Lenzing Group is particularly proud of its decade-long clean record of sustainable wood sourcing, evidenced by its long-standing credible commitment to wood certification, which Lenzing pioneered already in the 1990s. Lenzing’s commercial wood sources are 100 percent either certified by FSC®[1] or PEFC™[2] or controlled in line with FSC® standards. In addition, Lenzing has completed the second Canopy verification audit.”

For our woven garments, like several of our pants and jackets, we use TENCEL™. 

This plant-based material is the trademarked version of Lyocell.

It’s certified sustainable and is produced from eucalyptus trees and non-toxic solvent. The non-toxic solvent used to transform the fiber into fabric is recovered at 99.7% making it one of the most recyclable and reusable materials. It has a low environmental impact because it is produced in a quasi-closed loop circuit where the materials are constantly recycled, purified, and reused. The TENCEL™ is a breathable, resistant fabric, its nickname is “vegetable silk”, due to its similarity to silk. 

-They use plant-based dyes, natural fabrics, sustainable production, low air miles, and local manufacturing.

-They use Lancaster agricultural HUB waste to make the color dye. 

-They exploit rainwater; gathering over 60,000-gallon in a cistern underneath their studio to be used in production, using the existing resources of our planet. 

The best part is both the dye mordants and organic plant matter are completely compostable. And also, using rainwater allowed Green Matter to remove naturally the water impurities that are impacting the dying result. 

This collaboration will provide Lâcher Prise with an additional value to their environmental impact, but also drain down the water use on the creation cycle of our garment. We aim by the end of 2022, to have reached a 100% for our Water & Chemical Index.