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Transforming Mindsets: Embracing Circular Business Models in Textiles At Circular Textile Days 2025

On 10 and 11 September 2025, the 5th edition of Circular Textile Days will take place, marking a significant milestone in advancing circular transitions within the textile industry. Under the theme “Transforming Mindsets: Embracing Circular Business Models in Textiles,” the event will focus on the critical mindset shifts required to make...

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SANE Standard – Driving Sustainable Change in the Fashion Industry

SANE Standard is dedicated to helping brands navigate the growing challenges of sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry. As consumers demand more transparency, brands must ensure that their products meet high standards for environmental impact, workers' rights, and consumer health. SANE provides a comprehensive certification process...

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Green is the new black: How Hong Kong aims to fashion a sustainable future

In an era of environmental reckoning, Hong Kong's Fashion Summit 2024 held during its Fashion Fest last month, arrived with the ambitious mandate of transforming sustainable fashion from a niche concept to a mainstream business imperative. The event represented more than a typical industry gathering—it's a strategic repositioning of Hong Kong as...

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Asos, Boozt and Selfridges join YNAP and Zalando’s Fashion Leap for Climate

Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP) has announced a number of new members joining its Fashion Leap for Climate, an educational initiative launched in 2022 alongside About You and Zalando designed as a response to the fashion industry’s climate challenge. British e-tailer Asos, Swedish footwear retailer Boozt and the Selfridges Group, the parent company to...

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Organic textiles brand Cotonea: “We need to overcome the throwaway mentality”

The German manufacturer of organic textiles, Cotonea, has long been committed to greater transparency in the textile supply chain. For example, through the blockchain-based platform Textile Trust, which it developed together with IBM and the supplier of sustainable workwear, Kaya&Kato, back in 2020. Or the Textile Tracker, a joint project with...

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New report suggests 33 sustainable targets for a just fashion system

Industry watchdog Public Eye proposes 33 concrete targets for a just fashion system in its new report “One-Earth Fashion”. It highlights the fact that while the Earth is facing a climate emergency, the fashion system is simply adding fuel to the fire. “This leaves us in a situation where small, positive steps – for example, reducing plastics in...

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'Fashion Future': What do younger generations demand from the fashion industry?

Fashion has always been obsessed with youth, but while designers look to the younger generation as a source of inspiration, the generation they are courting is rarely represented when it comes to concrete questions and decisions. Trend seminars and retail conferences repeatedly emphasize the importance of attracting Generation Z - born between...

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Sustainable water management: Jeanologia, Aitex and Pizzaro SA unveil closed-loop system

Managing and reusing the textile industry's wastewater? Life Anhidra - a project by Jeanologia, Aitex (Textile Industry Research Association) and Portuguese textile company Pizarro SA - now makes it possible to have a closed-loop system for wastewater without discharges. The aim of the innovation is to reduce the environmental impact of the...

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New rules ahead: European fashion gears up for regulatory shifts

Facing a wave of new rules by the European Union, the bloc’s fashion industry is gearing up to address its concerns. The next months will be crucial as legislators are starting to flesh out a set of green rules. In July, Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected as the President of the EU Commission. In her second term, the EU plans to implement a set...

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LHCA supports the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus

The Leather and Hide Council of America (LHCA) has pledged its support for the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus, which hope to introduce “climate-smart politics to reduce, repair, rewear and recycle textiles”. Founded by district of Maine congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Washington district’s Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and California's Sydney...

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How Lectra’s AI-Powered Innovations Unlock Sustainability in Fashion?

In today’s fast-paced fashion landscape, brands face the dual challenge of keeping up with consumer demand for personalization and speed while reducing their costs. At the forefront of tackling these challenges is Lectra, a pioneering player in Industry 4.0 solutions, whose innovations leverage AI, IoT, and Big Data to streamline production...

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“Status of German Fashion 2024”: Between tradition and digitalisation

The Fashion Council Germany (FCG) and eBay Germany recently published the study “Status of German Fashion 2024”, which, in conjunction with the research institute Oxford Economics, examined the economic significance of the German fashion industry (clothing, footwear, accessories, bags and jewellery). The study also looked at the key challenges...