Sustainability / Respect for Workers

Silvia believes in ‘slow fashion’. Fashion that is sustainable and pieces that are made from beautiful fabrics. She is dedicated to making her small difference in the fashion industry.

The pieces are individually cut and made with care in Australia and Italy and maximums are set on orders to ensure sustainability and respect of her workers.

Owning a piece by Silvia Car ensures you have purchased a garment that is ‘sustainable luxury.’ A garment you will be proud to wear. A garment made with love by her workers who receive more per piece than the designer herself. All Silvia Car garments are manufactured in Australia and Italy.

It saddens Silvia to see headlines such as below about the reality of the luxury fashion industry.

The world’s biggest fashion brands are complicit in forced labour, say human rights groups.

Written by Don-Alvin Adegeest

Jul 23, 2020

‘ My hope is to make my small contribution and I hope to see the fashion industry refine its processes, to minimize the waste and negative impacts our industry has on our environment and in particular on its workers x ’