Fabscrap, the non-profit organisation that works with the fashion, interior design, and entertainment industries to recycle and reuse fabric waste, has announced that founder Jessica Schreiber will step down from her role as chief executive in July. Camille Tagle, Fabscrap’s co-founder and creative director, will step in immediately upon...
Mar 12, 2025
The Conscious Fashion Campaign, an initiative of the Fashion Impact Fund in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and the PVBLIC Foundation, has named the women social entrepreneurs working in fashion that will appear in the billboard campaign during New York Fashion Week in February 2022. The Conscious Fashion Campaign...
Nov 16, 2021
Nordstrom Inc. has announced its sustainability initiatives, including grant funding for textile recycling and flighting climate change, along with reducing its carbon footprint and eliminating plastic gift cards. Nordstrom stated it is committed to contributing 1 million dollars in corporate grants to support industry innovation for textile...
Apr 20, 2021
Urban Outfitters, Inc. are partnering with FabScrap to reduce the fashion industry’s impact on the planet by helping the organisation expand with a working capital grant. The retail group started working with FabScrap in 2019 as part of its efforts to reduce waste in its supply chain. The non-profit helped Urban Outfitters, Inc. to recycle...
Supporting emerging designers and promoting creativity inspired by Chinese culture and aesthetics remained a priority even during a pandemic year. But, this year, China Institute’s Fashion Design Competition introduced a sustainability component to promote socially conscious and environmentally friendly fashion. Eight students or recent...
Dec 11, 2020
The fashion industry generates tons of fabric waste each year, notably in New York -- one of the world's shopping capitals and host twice a year to runway shows, a major contributor to the wider problem. Enter Fabscrap, a non-profit organization dedicated to recycling and reusing textiles that are unsuitable for donation. Every day, 3,000 pounds...
Feb 14, 2019
Upcycling might seem like a millennial phenomena but it’s been around for a while. Remember when Molly Ringwald in “Pretty in Pink” remade the Pepto-Bismol-colored polka dot 50s dress her father bought her, recycling decorative bows into stand-up collars, into a dress for the prom. Or back even further to when Scarlett O’Hara instructed Mammy to...
Oct 22, 2018
