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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Techtextil & Texprocess Innovation Awards highlight relevant textile industry trends

At this year's Innovation Awards at the Techtextil and Texprocess textile fairs, which are taking place in Frankfurt, Germany until Friday, a total of 15 winners in eight categories were honoured on Tuesday for pioneering research and new products, processes or technologies. The award winners were selected by juries of internationally renowned...

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HanesBrands Inc to achieve zero waste across its operations by 2025

HanesBrands Inc., the parent company of apparel brands Hanes, Champion, Bonds, Maidenform, and Bali, is set to achieve zero waste across its operations by 2025, according to its latest Sustainability report. The report, published on Earth Day, April 20, highlights the steps the apparel company has taken to ensure it reaches its sustainability...

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Vestiaire Collective introduces cost-per-wear metric as part of its 2024 Circularity Report

French resale luxury fashion platform Vestiaire Collective has launched a new metric to highlight the impact of overconsumption and fast fashion within the fashion industry. Designed to help consumers develop a deeper understanding of the value of fashion, the cost-per-wear metric underlines the true cost of an item by breaking it down into cost...

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Why Earth Day has become largely a marketing gimmick

What do Mother's Day, Valentine's Day and Earth Day have in common? They are all days that highlight something/someone that should go without saying and be celebrated every day of the year - mothers (parents in general), love and our earth. The very existence of such days of remembrance shows that something is amiss - why do mothers need to be...

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Fashion Revolution on achievements in the last ten years and future needs

In the last ten years, the fashion industry has come a long way - the simple question, “Who made my clothes?” could not be answered after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building on 24th April 2013. Rescuers had to dig through the rubble looking for clothing labels to figure out which brands were producing clothes there. Even then, brands and...

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Ellie.Connect joins forces with sustainable fashion and textile expert Roosmarie Ruigrok

Ellie.Connect, the leading platform for sustainability in the fashion and textile industry is thrilled to announce its recent collaboration with Roosmarie Ruigrok, a respected expert in sustainable fashion and textiles. Roosmarie Ruigrok is known for her extensive experience in the textile landscape, and sustainable fashion, and as the founder...

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Giving a second life to fashion's deadstocks

At the Nona Source showroom in northern Paris, designers pick through luxurious textiles with ornate names: curly alpaca, geometrical macrame guipure, silk diamond cloque Jacquard. What makes them really exotic, however, is that they all come from "deadstocks" -- the leftovers designers discard when they have finished with a roll of fabric....

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Timeline: 10 years of Fashion Revolution

The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh, which housed garment factories, shook the industry - more than 1,100 workers lost their lives and around 2,500 were injured, many of them gravely. The accident, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of industrial manufacturing, shed light on an area that normally remains in...

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Asics launches most circular shoe ever

Japanese sportswear brand Asics has launched its most circular performance running shoe to date, designed to be remade at the end of its life without comprising on quality or performance. The Asics Nimbus Mirai running shoe has been designed with recycling in mind and launches with a new returns programme to encourage runners to give back the...

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These new sneaker models rely on circular economy, local production and customisation

The sneaker world is just one area of fashion that needs to become more sustainable and those in the sector have been working on new ideas and better solutions for years. As such, new materials, new recycling concepts and shorter supply chains are helping to reduce the carbon footprint. The global market for sustainable sneakers was estimated at...

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The Shirt Dandy adds new AI functions in collab with Tailoor by Successori Reda

The Shirt Dandy, the Viennese start-up that manufactures customised shirts for men in India, has deepened its strategic partnership with Tailoor. Tailoor is the software arm of Italian wool mill Successori Reda S.p.A, an AI-driven phygital platform. The collaboration aims to bring innovative AI capabilities to the Indian market. Reda and Tailoor...

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Yamamay and Shiseido back Project M.A.R.E. for Mediterranean conservation

Underwear brand Yamamay and beauty giant Shiseido are two prominent fashion brands backing Project M.A.R.E. (Marine Adventure for Research and Education), now in its third edition. The initiative aims to combine seamanship, scientific research, and advocacy for the preservation of the Mediterranean Sea. The project included several weeks of...