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Maya Gandaia
Wear the change with clothing that is slow, ethical and timeless
A New Paradigm for Conscious Fashion
The Butterfly Lifecycle
Maya Gandaia is a clothing and lifestyle collection dedicated to promoting slow fashion, cultural storytelling and sustainable, joy-infused clothing.
Our Mission
Our mission is to make joyful, travel-friendly clothing that reflects diverse identities with a vision for the clothing designs to celebrate and embrace diverse body types, ensuring a flattering and empowering fit for people of all shapes and sizes, whilst respecting both people and the planet.
We directly address urgent environmental challenges in the fashion industry, including micro plastics, waste, overproduction, and pollution.
We directly address urgent environmental challenges in the fashion industry, including micro plastics, waste, overproduction, and pollution.
Our vision
Our vision includes transforming our pre-loved garments into new designs and creative projects.
From Garment to Wings
Metamorphosis
When you choose Maya Gandaia, you’re not just wearing clothing, you’re participating in a beautiful cycle of transformation, joy, and purpose. From our hands to yours, from yours to the wings of a child, each piece continues its journey of bringing light to the world.
Just as the butterfly transforms through its sacred journey of metamorphosis, Maya Gandaia pieces embark on a mindful evolution that honours both creator and wearer. Each garment is born with intention, destined for multiple lives of beauty and purpose.
Just as the butterfly transforms through its sacred journey of metamorphosis, Maya Gandaia pieces embark on a mindful evolution that honours both creator and wearer. Each garment is born with intention, destined for multiple lives of beauty and purpose.
Pure, Natural, Safe
Our Fabric Philosophy
When you choose Maya Gandaia, you’re choosing clothing that breathes with your body, supports regenerative agriculture, and tells a story of love for your health, for our craftspeople, and for the planet we call home.
What touches our skin matters: not only for our comfort, but for our health as well as the health of our planet.
Every fabric we use is chosen for what it does for the body as much as for how it looks… No synthetics. No polyester. No compromise.
Research on polyester’s electrostatic properties suggests a potential link to reproductive issues. Research suggests that polyester contains endocrine-disrupting chemicals (phthalates) and microplastics that can interfere with hormones, potentially affecting female reproductive health and fertility.
Synthetic fabrics are also wreaking havoc on our oceans through microplastic pollution. Every time polyester clothing is washed, thousands of tiny plastic fibres break away and flow into our waterways, ultimately entering the food chain and our bodies.
The fashion industry, built on centuries of exploitation, environmental destruction, and cultural erasure, continues to perpetuate cycles of harm:
The UK is responsible for 206,456 tonnes of waste.
The global fashion industry is responsible for 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
57% of all clothes thrown away globally are sent to landfill sites.
300,000 tonnes of old clothes are thrown away in rubbish bins in the UK.
30% of unwanted clothes in the UK are thrown away in landfill sites.
Decolonising fashion empowers marginalised communities by reclaiming their artistic heritage, ensuring fair pay for artisans, and challenging the industry ‘ s exploitative history, creating a more ethical and inclusive future which looks like:
Supporting artisans from historically marginalized communities.
Ensuring fair pay and amplifying narratives through fashion.
Using eco-friendly fabrics like organic cotton, hemp, recycled silk.