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Camille Tagle assumes interim executive director role at Fabscrap

Fabscrap’s co-founder and creative director Camille Tagle has officially stepped into the interim executive director role at the non-profit organisation that provides fabric reuse and recycling services following the departure of founder and chief executive Jessica Schreiber. In a statement, Fabscrap said that Tagle will assume the temporary...

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Fabscrap founder to step down as chief executive

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...

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Conscious Fashion Campaign: New York announces ten women-led honoree organizations

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...

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Nordstrom provides grant funding for textile recycling

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...

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Urban Outfitters to address commercial textile waste with FabScrap

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...

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China Institute Fashion Design Competition adds sustainability for 2020

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...

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In New York, one non-profit looks to combat textile waste

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...

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Upcycling goes luxury pointing to a fashion uprising

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...