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As a small circular fashion company, we’re grateful for every year that we get to keep turning recycled materials into durable new clothes.

And as we look forward to 2025, we’re more aware than ever that circularity isn’t only about sourcing and production. It's about the connections within our community, from workers in the supply chain to our dedicated staff members and everyone who’s ever chosen an ANIÁN garment for themselves or someone they love.

Your support is what completes the circle, so we wanted to share some of what we’ve been able to achieve in 2024. Here are the highlights—Happy New Year from ANIÁN, and thanks again for being part of it all.

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A new milestone in our total amount of recycled material: including this year’s production, we’ve now repurposed over 900,000 pounds of discarded textiles.

We traveled farther afield as we seek new ways to source material in the global waste and supply chains. Stay tuned for more stories from our time in Pakistan and Italy.

Closer to home, we worked with the Ocean Legacy Foundation to salvage old oyster farm trays and convert them into shirt buttons.

We expanded our line of Circular Tees, Henleys and Crops, blending organic and recycled cotton. We’ll have more new styles coming in the spring.

Using only the colours from the original source garments, we’ve now created over 100 one-of-a-kind colourways that use no new chemicals and only a fraction of the water that traditional dyeing requires.

We developed more post-consumer recycled materials, including fleeced and quilted wool, herringbone wool, and linen and cotton blends.

From coast to coast, you can now find ANIÁN gear at over 100 stockists ranging from backcountry lodges to independent storefronts.

We introduced Lightweight Melton Wool, a more breathable, wear-it-for-anything version of our most iconic design.

Speaking of that iconic design, our Modern Melton Shirts turned 8 years old. Almost indestructible, there are still many OGs being worn day in and day out.

Through the summer and fall, we partnered in the pop-up Wild Space gallery with photographers Steve Woods and Jeremy Koreski.

Our production team continuing refining new fabrics for the coming year, including Sherpa and Donegal wools.

ANIÁN has always worked in a low-key way. But this year more folks in the media started covering our circular approach, including Gear Junkie, Sharp, Travel + Leisure, Daily Hive and Nuvo.

We continued our collaboration with the British Columbia government and the Ministry of Forests, helping outfit some of their teams and field workers with gear based on natural instead of synthetic fibres.

South of the border, where it’s just as windy and foggy as it is at ANIÁN HQ, we started working with new friends to make our garments available at more stockists in the Pacific Northwest.

Enabled by the amazing support we’ve received from our community, we were able to donate to over a dozen charitable and non-profit organizations.

We made a traditional men’s long coat, the Northwest Herringbone. It sold out, but we’ll be restocking it in 2025 and adding a highly requested women’s version.

A few of our favourite designs trace their lineage to historic styles worn by mariners, which may be why BC Ferries started carrying ANIÁN garments in the shops on 8 of their vessels—another way to stay warm while you take in the view through Active Pass.

We released our first Quilted Styles in a limited run. They went fast this last fall, so more of those will be coming soon.

After moving our warehouse a few years ago, we outgrew our space on the Island once again. We’ll be transitioning to a larger facility in 2025.

Just as we do every year, we closed our stores and website on Black Friday to give our staff a break, spend an extra day in nature and refocus on our mission.

Expanded our zero-waste initiatives by rescuing fabric offcuts from our Vancouver manufacturing space and turning them into sturdy tote bags.

Following the success of our Sail Totes in 2023, we decided to make them a staple in our line for 2025. We’re working with Puddle Jump Bags from Sointula, upcycling old sails into new bags and helping promote the circular economy in remote communities.

We drew up plans for a new store east of the Rockies. This spring, we’ll be opening a new ANIÁN location in Calgary’s 17th Ave shopping district, and working on new styles for Alberta’s colder mountain weather too.

Above all, the best highlight of 2024 was continuing to hold to our values and show that a circular economy is both viable and scalable. It’s not always easy, but for us, it’s always the right path to follow. Here’s to traveling it together in the year to come.