FAQs

You return it to us. We transform it. The fabric becomes butterfly wings, jellyfish puppets, or aerial silks for children to use in performance and play. Nothing goes to landfill. Every piece has two full lives… one on your body, one in a child’s hands.

The silver fabric is a conductive textile woven with genuine silver thread, patented by our fabric artisan Gul Vatansever in Turkey. Silver is naturally antimicrobial and antibacterial, which means it actively protects the body’s natural flora… particularly important in underwear and pieces worn close to the skin all day. It also conducts electricity in a way that creates a natural buffer against electromagnetic fields (EMF). And because silver inhibits the bacteria that cause odour, you do not need to wash it as frequently as conventional fabric… which means less water use, less energy, and a longer life for the garment.

Umorfil is a patented collagen fibre developed from fish by-products, which means it uses material that would otherwise go to waste. It is breathable, anti-sweat, and knitted rather than woven… which makes it exceptionally soft and even more breathable than conventional fabrics. It sits beautifully against the skin and moves with the body in a way that synthetics simply cannot replicate.

Rose fibre is made from rose cellulose… the cellular material of rose plants. It is a protein-based fibre from organic plant sources, naturally pink, breathable, and fully environmentally sourced. It is one of the rarest textiles in the world, and it is patented by Gul Vatansever, the woman who makes all our fabric. Its colour can deepen and shift naturally over time, which means every piece has a living quality to it.

Yes. Hemp is one of the most sustainable fibres on the planet… it grows quickly, requires very little water, needs no pesticides, and enriches the soil it grows in. Gul Vatansever’s background is in hemp design, and it runs through the DNA of everything she makes.

We use recycled silk, which means no new silkworms are harmed in the process. The silk we work with is reclaimed and reworked into new fabric, giving it a second life before it ever reaches a garment. All produced in the same place as our other fabrics, by the same hands.

Because the woman who makes our fabric lives in Turkey, and her work exists nowhere else in the world. Gul Vatansever has developed and patented fibres… rose cellulose, silver thread, collagen weave… that are extraordinary, and we are the first brand outside Turkey she has ever worked with. We could not make these garments anywhere else, because no one else has these materials. That is not a compromise. That is the whole point.

The collection is woman-led at every level. Gul Vatansever runs her operation herself, the fabric and the garments are produced in the same location, which means full supply chain transparency, and we are producing in small runs of 50 to 100 pieces only. Slow fashion, made with intention, fully traceable through a digital product passport.

It is a digital record that travels with each garment and holds the full story of how it was made… the materials, where they were sourced, who made the fabric, where the garment was produced. You can access it and know exactly what you are wearing and where it came from. We believe transparency is not a nice-to-have in fashion. It is the baseline.

We built this brand on the principle that every decision… fibre, production method, run size, end of life… should be accountable. We use only natural and patented bio-based fibres. We produce in small runs of 50 to 100 pieces. Every garment has a second life through our Butterfly Lifecycle Concept, which means nothing ends up in landfill. The fabric and garments are produced in the same location, which shortens the supply chain. We are at the beginning of this journey and we will always tell you exactly where we are.

Yes, conventional fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world… and that is precisely why we exist. We do not pretend that making clothing is impact-free. What we do is make every possible choice to reduce that impact: natural fibres only, no synthetics, no microplastics, small production runs, full traceability, and a genuine second-life programme so the garment never becomes waste. We are not claiming to be perfect. We are committed to being honest and to improving continuously.

No. We made a founding commitment to use only natural and bio-based fibres. Synthetics shed microplastics with every wash, and they carry chemical processes that have no place next to a human body… especially in underwear and pieces worn against the skin all day. This is not just an environmental position. It comes from watching what happened to dancers’ bodies in rehearsal rooms, wearing polyester day after day. That experience is in the DNA of this brand.

Gul Vatansever uses natural dyes in her work. Some fabrics, particularly the rose fibre, carry colour that can shift and deepen naturally over time… which is a feature, not a flaw. It means the garment is alive in a way that synthetic dyes never allow.

Everything we wear against our skin matters. Conventional underwear and activewear made from synthetic fabrics traps heat, disrupts the body’s natural flora, and sheds microplastics absorbed through the skin. I noticed this in my own world as a dancer… colleagues developing UTIs, candida, pelvic problems that we never connected to what we were wearing. Our silver fabric is antimicrobial and protective of the body’s natural bacterial balance. Our collagen and rose fibre pieces are breathable in a way that synthetics fundamentally are not. We believe that what you wear next to your body should love your body back.

The breathability and antimicrobial properties of our fabrics make them particularly relevant for women experiencing perimenopause and menopause… where temperature regulation, skin sensitivity, and changes to vaginal flora are all live concerns. Natural fibres that breathe, move, and protect are designed to support you at all stages of your life.

The growing conversation around removing plastics and synthetic chemicals from daily life when trying to conceive is one we are paying close attention to. One of the most overlooked places synthetic materials touch the body is underwear… worn all day, every day, against the most sensitive areas. Our silver and natural fibre pieces offer an alternative that many women in this space are actively looking for.

For Ella, the clothing and the inner work are not separate. The chakra-inspired colour philosophy that runs through Maya Gandaia is also the foundation of the Goddxx Path and the Sacred Bowl, her coaching programmes built around somatic practice and the sacred feminine. The course Dress to Express Intuitively teaches intuitive dressing as an embodied practice… a way of listening to what the body knows, rather than following what the market tells us we should wear. The fabric, the colour, the fit, the feel… all of it is connected to the body’s own intelligence. For wellness, embodiment, and holistic living press, this is the deeper story.

Every garment comes with a digital product passport that shows you exactly where it came from and what it is made of. We produce in runs of 50 to 100 pieces only, never more, because slow fashion is not a marketing line for us, it is the actual model. We use only natural and bio-based fibres, no synthetics. And at the end of a garment’s life with you, we take it back and transform it into something that will be used and loved again. We would rather you ask hard questions than take our word for it.

Greenwashing is using vague environmental language to avoid accountability. We try to do the opposite… to be specific about what we do, honest about what we do not yet know, and open to scrutiny. The digital product passport is there precisely so that you do not have to take our word for it. We are a new brand and we are still building… but the commitments we made from day one are structural, not cosmetic.

Our collection is made by one woman, Gul Vatansever, who develops the fabric and produces the garments in the same location. This is not a factory. It is an artisan’s studio. Maya Gandaia is the first brand she has ever chosen to work with outside Turkey, and that relationship is built on shared values around craft, quality, and integrity. The production is fully traceable.

We are launching in August 2026 with the Maya Movement collection… our debut range of breathable, toxin-free everyday wear made from some of the rarest natural fibres in the world. You can join our community now and be among the first to know.

It is an online course that teaches intuitive dressing as an embodied practice… not styling in the conventional sense, but a way of using colour, fabric, and clothing as a tool for self-knowledge and transformation. It sits within the wider Maya Gandaia world, alongside the chakra colour system and the community membership. It is the first step into the deeper work for those who find their way to the brand through the clothing.