The latest news and innovations around sustainability in fashion

Discover all the latest news and innovations around sustainability in the fashion industry. You will find information about sustainable fashion, innovative materials, CSR, supply chain challenges, sustainability certificates, case studies and the most sustainable clothing brands.

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Redress Design Awards 2024: The past, present and future of the circular design initiative

The 14th annual edition of the Redress Design Awards were held today, during the ongoing Centrestage Hong Kong trade show, where a slew of new designers showcased collections made under the guidance of the educational NGO. Despite being rescheduled one day later due to the emergence of Typhoon Yagi, the event still drew in a sizable crowd made...

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Visit CIRCULAR TEXTILE DAYS: 18 & 19 September, 2024

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands – The fourth edition of Circular Textile Days is set to take place on September 18 & 19, 2024. This international B2B event is dedicated to circularity in the textile industry. Circular Textile Days provides a platform for organizations from various countries to converge, showcase the latest developments, gain...

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Refashion takes its pop-up campus on the road

This autumn, eco-organisation Refashion that manages waste from the textile, footwear and homeware industries in France, is launching a pop-up campus dedicated to garment repair and circular fashion. The initiative will tour the south of France via an ‘ephemeral campus’ concept. From September 27 to October 28 2024, Refashion's pop-up campus...

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Woolmark unveils roadmap to accelerate wool sustainability

Woolmark, the global authority on wool, has launched a new sustainability roadmap to unite woolgrowers, supply chains and brands and accelerate low-impact wool production, circularity and enhance animal wellbeing and woolgrower livelihoods. The ‘Woolmark+’ roadmap sets out 13 practical initiatives designed to deliver practical solutions across...

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From design, supply, distribution, marketing to retail: How AI is being used in the fashion industry

Attention fashion brands and retailers: how you can use Artificial Intelligence to make your business more intelligent and/or efficient “Artificial intelligence (AI) can make the fashion industry smarter,” said Matthew Drinkwater, head of the Fashion Innovation Agency at the London College of Fashion and specialist in new technologies and their...

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Collective Fashion Justice: ‘Less than 4 percent of BFC brands have climate targets’

A new report from Collective Fashion Justice has found that just seven of the 206 member brands associated with the British Fashion Council (BFC) have a published climate target, making up just 3.39 percent of the organisation's total membership. Only five (2.4 percent), meanwhile, have demonstrated science-based targets that align with the...

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The Digital Product Passport: from burden to opportunity

Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the European Union has mandated the adoption of Digital Product Passports (DPPs) by 2030. This regulation aims to improve the circularity, energy performance, and overall environmental sustainability of products in the EU market. It supports the EU’s broader environmental and...

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Extended producer responsibility for textiles: ‘don't miss out’

Do you import textiles to sell in the Netherlands? Or do you actually sell textiles from the Netherlands to other EU countries? Then it is important to think about the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for textiles, as you will most likely have to deal with this. In short, extended producer responsibility for textiles means that the party...

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eBay launches Pre-Loved Fashion Week in London and New York

E-commerce and resale platform eBay is set to debut its inaugural Pre-Loved Fashion Week in September, partnering with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and British Fashion Council (BFC). This initiative, featuring live shoppable runway shows in New York and London, aims to capitalise on the growing demand for secondhand luxury...

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Lenzing unveils Tencel brand refresh

Cellulose fibre supplier The Lenzing Group has unveiled an identity refresh for its flagship textile brand Tencel, which will be adopting the renewed theme ‘Nature. Future. Us.’ in what looks to be an embodiment of its wider ethos. With the brand refresh also comes a strategic repositioning that Tencel hopes will help it navigate the evolving...

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Exiting the clothing industry as an investor: Is this the right path to sustainability?

Last week, ASN Impact Investors, the asset manager of Netherlands-based ASN Bank, announced that it sold all its stakes in clothing companies. This step was taken because major fashion brands such as H&M, Zara and Asics are not making sufficient progress in the area of sustainability. While this may seem like a bold decision at first glance, it...

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TENCEL refreshes brand identity, championing collective innovation towards a more responsible textile industry

The Lenzing Group, a leading supplier of regenerated cellulose fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, today unveiled the latest evolution of its flagship textile brand TENCEL™, with a refreshed branding theme of “Nature. Future. Us.” The updated brand identity embodies TENCEL™’s ethos of striving to embrace innovation and empower...