Jewellery
Every piece of our jewelry is carefully hand crafted through a long process involving many stages: from defining the color palette, as starting point, to designing shapes, and adding textures; and finally to painting the details as a final touch. This is where the magic happens. Usually without any idea of the final product the artist let’s her imaginations and small pieces of clay guide her way to the final design. That is how every piece becomes truly unique.
Impact and transparency
At ch8se we measure success solely by the impact we make. The most intuitive way to express this is not through percentages and net sums, but by measuring real-world impact. For this we worked out our metric system, through which the impact of each product is exactly quantified. These are down to earth numbers, backed by our partner organisations.
Every product has a unique serial number that serves as an impact code. You can register that serial number on our website. When you do this, the code is redeemed, the donation will be transferred within a month to the right organization and the impact is added to the counter on your personal account. The code redeemer will be accessible right after the Indiegogo campaign.
We take the matter of transparency very seriously. Everyone has a full insight to our monthly impact reports, which contain all the codes redeemed during the respective period, an optional message or username from the redeemer and the impact of each code. The reports will be public and accessible all the time.
Tree planting
By partnering with the Eden Reforestation Projects our products can restore native forests to the deforested regions of Madagascar, Ethiopia, Haiti and Nepal.
As local villagers are hired to plant the trees, through these projects, they can provide a living to their families. And as the native forests get restored, the wildlife starts blooming again.
Food for the children
We feed hungry children in third world countries by donating to the World Food Program's school meal projects. A meal at school acts as a magnet to get children into the classroom. In poor countries, school meals are often the only regular and nutritious meal a child receives. They are an investment in the child’s future.
It allows children to focus on their studies rather than their stomachs and helps to increase school enrollment and attendance, decrease drop-out rates, and improve cognitive abilities. As often as possible, food is bought locally, which benefits local farmers and the whole community while enhancing the sustainability of the programme.
Clean drinking water
We partnered up with One Day’s Wages in order to contribute to solving the global water crisis. Together, we can help people get access to improved water and sanitation through improvements such as wells, filtration systems, latrines and sanitation education.
A few words from an advertising professional, who spent more than 35 years in the industry
"My enthusiasm for the ch8se concept is born out of more than 35 years in traditional marketing and advertising with agencies from WPP to Ogilvy and with clients and employers from non-profits to Fortune 100 brands. A concept like yours probably strikes fear in the hearts of my contemporaries and others in fashion and luxury products, but I firmly believe that your generation of smart, clean, and thoughtful marketers have the right idea and that a revolution is needed. The under-belly of our industry is wrought with excess, waste, contamination, and any number of unhealthy by-products both physical and psychological. It is far beyond time to clean up our act and to redirect those billions of dollars to work that can improve our planet and the lives of our neighbours."
Carol Dodds, Vice President - Advertising (AOPA)
How can you help kickstart this revolution?
- Share this campaign using the share button above. Every 10 shares will plant a tree.
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Click here to become a #ch8ser. Be among the first ones to join our group. For every new member a tree will be planted. This is the best way to become an active member of this grassroots movement, to have a say in ch8se's future, to get early insight into our future collections and get access to giveaways and special releases reserved for ch8sers.
- Know any like-minded bloggers, influencers who might be willing to help this story spread? Please, help us out with an introduction. hello@ch8se.com
- You may say we are dreamers, but we're not the only ones. If you can, support us on Indiegogo. Let's make this dream a reality.
Risks & Challenges
Sourcing truly eco-friendly fabrics can be very tricky sometimes, especially for startups operating with relatively small quantities. The availability of a given fabric can change in just a few days. The only sure way to ensure a reliable supply is purchasing huge quantities at once. Due to the fact that the birth of this brand is being crowdfunded, this was not a possibility for us. The colour of the final products may slightly deteriorate from the colours of the prototypes seen on the pictures. This is because we refuse to send you anything but the highest quality eco-friendly products!
Yes. We ship world wide for a fixed shipping rate at $5 per product.
All of our products are made in Europe, the production involves multiple countries including Spain, The Netherlands, Hungary, Serbia and Poland.