LVMH has long stocked a sustainable fabric and leather library for its stable of brands, but this year the luxury conglomerate upped the ante with Nona Source, headed by sustainability experts Marie Falguera, Romain Brabo, and Anne Prieur Du Perray. Their goal: to become the premier source of textiles for emerging designers in Europe (because the stock is housed in France, they want to minimize shipping emissions). Even the lingo that Nona Source uses to describe dead-stock materials—it calls them “sleeping beauties”—makes upcycling sound chicer than ever. (“I wanted to wake them up,” says Brabo of his warehouse “aha” moment.) And because selecting fabrics is such a tactile experience, the team went the extra mile, adding a video component to each swatch to convey drape, weight, and translucence. Open to all, the online resale platform offers its wares at prices up to 70 percent off original wholesale prices, making the old saw “Sustainable equals expensive” feel so last season.

Nappa Pixel lambskin Twist pouch, Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com.

When it comes to sustainable jewelry, diamonds tend to get the bulk of the attention, with the last few years having seen the arrival of eco-friendly and ethical lab-created stones from Diamond Foundry and DeBeers’ Lightbox. Gold, however, is now poised for its green moment. John Hardy, who built his brand on sustainable silver jewelry (and whose Balinese HQ is housed in a sustainably-built bamboo structure), is embracing 100 percent reclaimed gold through the Reticulated collection, named for the metalsmithing technique that heats the interior to its molten state and results in a rippled pattern that calls to mind Bali’s volcanic landscape. Giants in the field like Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari have also begun embracing reclaimed gold in their collections, while smaller brands such as Monica Vinader and Emefa Cole have committed to using 100 percent reclaimed silver and gold—and Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand, aims to do so by 2025. And in Silicon Valley, Generation Collection, founded by the late former Tesla executive Boryana Straubel, is doing its part to curtail pollution caused by the gold (and silver and platinum) mining processes with its fully circular fine jewelry brand—the first and only of its kind—while honoring Straubel’s mission of “helping families accrue wealth in environmentally sustainable metals and celebrate life’s most meaningful accomplishments.”

18K recycled yellow gold with SMO gold wire Kla earrings, $7,920, Emefa Cole, emefacole.com.