Eco-conscious luxury.

Antonello's eco-friendly claims:

Manufacturing techniques. All the fabrics used are hand produced on traditional looms, this tend to use less energy. Every factory and workshop has a few fabrics on display, weaving is generally done to order.

Local natural wool . These fibres come from organic farmed sheep (conventional farming is a huge consumer of non-renewable fossil fuels. Sardinian farmers have been using organic farming for generations, this tend to use less energy).

Wools dyed locally with Sardinian plants. Antonello's exclusive 'luxury eco' line of accessories also uses sustainable yarns made with Sardinian sheep wool dyed locally with Sardinian plants.Regenerated Cotton.

Hand-woven recycled and regenerated cotton yarns are widely used in the collections.

Local linen. The linen is home grown, retted and spun

Handles made of local plants. Myrtle, flowering-rush, wild olive, canna naturally dyed.

Production processes. Fabrics and handbags are hand produced in ethically managed factories – workshops are entirely managed by womenRecycled linings and care bags.

The handbag linings are made of beautiful ends of rolls and off cuts recycled new fabrics from Sardinian textiles factories. These fabrics would usually end up in skips and landfill, to be incinerated.