SukkhaCitta started
with a simple mission.
We've lost touch. With where things came from. With the journey things take before we buy them. With the makers. With the impact our choices have on the Planet.
We're here to change that. Working directly with mothers in Villages, not factories, going mud deep to stitch positive impact into what you wear.
Together, we create beauty. A different kind of beauty, where every choice changes the world for the better.
Your forever wardrobe
Combining elevated design and ethical craftsmanship, we create the most meaningful clothes. The forever wardrobe consist of well-designed staples with statement pieces that help you live better with less.
Empowerment, guaranteed.
The ugly truth is that only 2% of women who make your clothes earn a livable wage.
The problem? We just don’t know.
As the first certified B Corporation voted Best for the World in Indonesia, 100% of our products are made to raise wage standards, from start to finish. Putting women back in the driver’s seat to change their own lives. Not through aid, but fair work.
This way, they can breathe new life into their rich traditions and continue their crafts with pride. With every purchase, you invest in the creation of fair work and infrastructure that alleviate poverty for mothers in rural areas.
1,482+ lives impacted
Farmers. Dyers. Batik artisans.
Master weavers. Seamstresses.
We provide opportunities by elevating existing skills, creating timeless essentials grounded in heritage and positive impact.
Farmers. Dyers. Batik artisans. Master weavers. Seamstresses.
We provide opportunities by elevating existing skills, creating timeless essentials grounded in heritage and positive impact.
4 craft schools funded
As a social enterprise, whatever we make gets reinvested back in our communities. Funding much-needed training and building craft schools to break the cycle of poverty and create long term change.
60% increase in income
Through our audited, fair trade standards, our artisans finally know how much they should get for their hard work. The result? Our Ibus feel visible and valuable, and lift up their community.
8 heritage crafts sustained
By working exclusively with age-old craftsmanship, we make sure there is a market for our artisans’ handwork. Choosing meaning over mass, slow over fast.
Sustainability to us is not about doing less harm
—but finding ways to regenerate and repair.
Our approach to sustainability and circularity is one of remembering and relearning. From indigenous communities and their way of caring for the environment - and from nature and her eternal cycles, where nothing is ever wasted.
From Regenerative Farm
67% of fashion’s carbon emissions comes from raw materials and how they’re processed/dyed. That’s why we started growing our own cotton and dyes regeneratively in 2020. Leveraging indigenous wisdom, we create new opportunities for smallholder farmers and restore the health of our soils – turning them into natural carbon sinks.
Cotton that heals the soil
Over 99% of cotton in Indonesia is imported. We work with some of Indonesia’s last cotton farmers in East Java and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT)—growing rainfall reliant cotton that provides much needed dry-season income for women farmers.
Natural dyes
Textile dyeing is the second polluter of water globally. Every day, tons of toxic chemicals are released directly into our rivers to bring color into our lives. That’s why everything we make is dyed with plants and agricultural waste. Better for you, the makers, and our planet.
Responsible sourcing
For those materials that we do not yet grow ourselves, we closely work with suppliers that share our values—such as Lyocell made from closed-loop, FSC-certified eucalyptus fibre.
Our packaging uses our fabric offcuts, with hand-knotted ties upcycled from our looms. Our buttons are from made from waste mother-of-pearls and supports the livelihoods of 12 women in Makassar, Indonesia.
No virgin plastic
Fashion has a plastic problem. One we’re avoiding by using 100% natural materials in all our clothes. Even the hidden ones, like the use of single-use polybags in our entire supply chain. Our packaging even uses our fabric offcuts, with hand-knotted ties upcycled from our looms. The only exception: The threads we use to sow your clothes. Due to their durability, we opted for recycled polyester threads made by a German company in Indonesia.
To Closet
The most sustainable clothes are the ones already in your closet.
That’s why we want you to take good care of them—and send us your broken pieces, so we can fix them for free.
Timeless & Deliberate
At SukkhaCitta, we put a lot of thought into the design of our pieces, creating carefully crafted clothes that will accompany you for a long time. We don’t believe in seasons and see overproduction as one of the root causes of fast fashion’s devastating climate impact.
Free Repairs
Life is messy, and things are prone to go wrong. When that happens and you tear your favorite pants or shirt, don’t throw it away. Send it to us to have it repaired for free! And if you live outside of Indonesia, order one of our Free Repair Kits.
Redye Service
Bored with your old clothes or spilled something over your favorite dress? Have our Ibus rebatik and dye your old clothes and give them a new life.
To Soil
Every second, one garbage truck worth of textiles is dumped or burned somewhere.
Less than 1% of it is recycled. That’s not just an environmental issue. It’s a huge waste of resources. Together with Indonesia’s craftswomen, we work hard to close the loop.
Upcycling
We upcycle 100% of our own offcuts into our #ReMadeRight collections. And even those tiny shreds we cannot turn into products anymore, we mix with old paper and turn them into tags.
Recycling
We now take back your old SukkhaCitta pieces, so we can find ways to give them a new life, providing additional incomes for our resourceful seamstresses in Bali.
Packaging
Your orders are shipped out in our reusable, upcycled cotton pouches. The shipping box is made of 100% recyclable paper and sealed with non-toxic paper tape.
Don’t want to receive our recycled collaterals (tags, story cards, etc.)? Just leave a note at checkout and we will help you declutter your life.
Reversing Climate Change
The fashion industry dumps more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of Germany, France and the UK combined. Every year that’s equal to the pollution from 456,707,817 cars.
How come it’s so much? Because fashion loves fossil fuels—to make materials like polyester, but also to ship products and power factories. Here is what we do to be part of the solution—and create clothes that will—eventually—be climate positive.
Regenerative Materials
As we mentioned before, regeneratively grown, natural materials as well as upcycling waste materials are the best way to lower fashion’s climate footprint.
That’s why we keep expanding our regenerative farms and have started research and development into new, innovative materials that combine our regenerative cotton with textile and agricultural waste.
Science Based Targets
Together with WRI we’re in the process of measuring our emissions and setting Science Based Targets, the gold standard in the Wild West of Carbon Neutrality Claims—many of which were found to be fraudulent.
We will first identify how much carbon our entire supply chain—from raw materials and the gas used to power our batik artisans’ stoves to transportation and the air conditioners used in our office.
Then, we will identify how we can reduce these emissions by 90% until 2030 and offset what we cannot reduce by purchasing internationally accredited carbon offsets.
Funding Regeneration Projects
Since 2020, we plant 1 tree for every product sold. Not to get carbon offsets but because it’s the right thing to do. Currently, your purchases support a long-term regeneration project in Timor, turning degraded soil into an abundant food forest for the community.
What's Next
2025
100% Regenerative Cotton
Farmers. Dyers. Batik artisans.
Master weavers. Seamstresses.
We provide opportunities by elevating existing skills, creating timeless essentials grounded in heritage and positive impact.
2030
Net Zero
2030
30% of Materials Recycled
2030
1,000 Hectares Land Regenerated
