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The Collective and Individual Approach to Sustainability

Sustainability in the fashion industry is the topic du jour, and rightfully so. The adverse effects of fashion on our environment and on humans themselves cannot be overstated. Over the past ten years, this topic has shifted from the world of academia and NGOs to business and consumers. In fact, consumers now identify sustainability as one of...

Apr 7, 2021

Podcast

Shifting the Sustainability Mindset

Sustainability in the fashion industry is the topic du jour, and rightfully so. The adverse effects of fashion on our environment and on humans themselves cannot be overstated. Maria Soubbotina, a graduate student and research assistant at Parsons School of Design, focuses her time on parsing how people use language as it pertains to fashion and...

Apr 7, 2021

Fashion

Anthropologie pledges to plant 25,000 trees in Brazil

Bohemian women’s apparel brand Anthropologie has partnered with Brazilian clothing and lifestyle company Farm Rio in honor of Earth Month. Contributing to Farm Rio’s 1,000 trees a day project, Anthropologie will donate 25,000 trees over one year with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit organization that helps reforestation efforts globally. “We are so...

Apr 2, 2021

Business

Sustainability Accelerating in the Beauty and Personal Care Industry

Of sustainability’s three pillars—economic, environmental and social—much of the beauty industry’s innovation has centered around the environmental pillar. A year after the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, momentum in sustainability has picked up again, coinciding with greater strides in vaccine distribution, the reopening of...

Apr 1, 2021

Fashion

Fashion student wins first Imagining Sustainable Fashion Award

The winner of the first Imagining Sustainable Fashion Award launched last October by non-profit research agency, Connecting Cultures, and international ecohub, C.L.A.S.S., was announced on Tuesday during a webinar led by Giusy Bettoni, CEO of C.L.A.S.S. and Anna Detheridge, President of Connecting Cultures. They were joined by Lucy Orta, Chair...

Mar 30, 2021

Video

Webinar: Textile Making: New Frontiere by WHITE MILANO

In this Webinar, Matteo Ward - CEO & Co-founder of WRÅD - speaks with co-founders of Desserto, Marte Cazarez and Adrian Lopez Velarde, the Renewcell CEO Patrik Lundstrom and Fashion Tech Designer Laura Civetti about sustainability in the textile sector. Watch the video below. Video: WHITE SHOW via Vimeo

Mar 26, 2021

Video

Webinar: Communicating Sustainability: How? by WHITE MILANO

In this Webinar, Matteo Ward - CEO & Co-founder WRÅD - speaks with journalist Chiara Tronville, Communication Designer Federico Biserni and Fashion Reporter Valeria Oppenheimer about sustainability in the fashion industry. Watch the video below. Video: WHITE SHOW via Vimeo

Mar 26, 2021

Podcast

Podcast: Smart Creation invites you to explore the potential of sustainable fashion.

In this episode Smart Creation, the podcast, interviews Francesco Marini – Designer and Innovation manager at Marini Industrie SPA – about the potential of sustainable fashion. Source: Première Vision by Acast Photo credit: Blossom Première Vision

Mar 26, 2021

Business

LVMH partners with Unesco to combat deforestation in the Amazon

LVMH, in partnership with UNESCO MAB(Man and the Biosphere) program, revealed its new biodiversity strategy to combat deforestation in the Amazon. The initiative is a part of the conglomerate’s LIFE 360 program (LVMH Initiatives For the Environment), limiting its group’s impact on ecosystems by rehabilitating 5 million hectares of natural...

Mar 25, 2021

Business

Contemporary Designs Created in Cambodia

Tonlé is a contemporary Cambodian fashion womenswear collection, focused on providing customers with contemporary, wearable and relatable clothes, all at a median price point. “They’re quite accessible” exclaims Sass, who describes the collection as “based in jersey, while utilizing a number of different techniques.” You can also listen to this...

Mar 25, 2021

Podcast

Tonlé, Contemporary Design and Zero Waste

Each month Sass Brown, an expert in ethical fashion, sustainability and craftsmanship, shares a fashion brand that approaches business differently and innovatively or operates outside of the main fashion systems and capitals. Sass is the former Dean of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the founding Dean at Dubai Institute...

Mar 25, 2021

Fashion

YKK highlights commitment to sustainable manufacturing and products

YKK, one of the world’s largest zipper and fasteners manufacturer, is pushing forward with its sustainable journey by putting into practice new manufacturing processes and techniques with a focus on minimising its environmental footprint. João Matias, sustainability specialist at YKK, explains: “It’s not just enough to make a high quality...

Mar 24, 2021