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How 10 million euro EU project Cisutac aims to remove barriers to a circular textile industry

A new consortium, Cisutac, wants to remove the barriers that European fashion brands and textile suppliers face on their journey to become circular. Co-funded by the European Union (EU) and supported by 27 partners, the project aims to increase reuse, repair, and recycling capacities for discarded clothes with affordable tools. “The European...

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Lululemon establishes partnership with textile recycling startup, Samsara Eco

Sportswear company Lululemon has announced a new multi-year collaboration with textile-to-textile recycling firm, Samsara Eco, as it looks to scale its circularity practices. The brand said that through the partnership it is aiming to make infinitely recycled nylon and polyester from its own products using the startup’s circular process. Samsara...

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Lestrange founders on Europe expansion and why circularity is no silver bullet

London-based label Lestrange opened its first international store earlier in May on Amsterdam’s bustling Nines Streets - or ‘de Negen Straatjes’. The menswear brand, founded by William Green and Tom Horne, focuses on seasonless wardrobe staples that are smart, versatile, and durable. FashionUnited popped into the new store and spoke to Green and...

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Selfridges opens The Stock Market concept for clothing exchange and restoration

Luxury department store Selfridges has unveiled a new concept in its Corner Shop space that will allow customers to access services to exchange, restore or upcycle clothing and accessories. Entitled ‘The Stock Market’, the site suitably draws inspiration from the setting of the London Stock Exchange, seeing it transforming into a ‘trading floor’...

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Fashion and sustainability in April 2023

April has been the most active and promising month so far this year in terms of sustainability in the fashion industry. It was marked by Earth Day on 20th April, Fashion Revolution Week, which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on 24th April 2013, and the World Retail Congress in Barcelona from...

Fashion

Renewcell Named Winner in Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards

The winners of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring sustainable designs, innovative products, bold social initiatives, and other creative projects that are changing the way we work, live, and interact with the world. Renewcell is the recepient of the Fast Company 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards for the...

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Ellen MacArthur Foundation launches database for circular startups

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is beginning the roll out of the full version of its circular startup database, designed to help businesses explore startups and drive the acceleration of the circular economy. On ‘The Circular Startup Index’, 500 brands that are a part of the foundation’s community are already featured across a range of sectors,...

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Extended Producer Responsibility isn’t enough to tackle global ‘fashion waste mountain’. Here's why

The Netherlands will be the second European country to launch an EPR for textiles - but will the policy end waste colonialism? Textile waste is one of the world’s fastest-growing waste streams: according to the Clean Clothes Campaign, globally, upwards of 100 billion garments are produced each year, a huge portion of which don’t even reach...

Fashion

Nike Re-Creation collections to launch in London and Paris

Nike announced the launches of new upcycled collections in the frame of its Re-Creation program for London and Paris this summer. For Re-Creation, discarded clothes are collected and re-created into a wearable condition, and then further redistributed, all on a local scale, combining creativity, innovation and the outlook onto a circular...

Retail

Selfridges launches Worn Again campaign with series of in-store experiences

As part of its ongoing circular Reselfridges initiative, luxury retailer Selfridges has launched a new season-long campaign designed to explore new forms of retail experiences related to secondhand and circular shopping. Dubbed ‘Worn Again’, the campaign encapsulates a programme of collaborations and events that allow customers to participate in...

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Coach launches new sub-brand focused on ‘circular crafts’

Luxury brand Coach has unveiled a new sub-brand which it said will be focused on “circular craft and collaborative creativity”. Entitled ‘Coachtopia’, the label comes with its own Made Circular design philosophy, which centres around three principles informing how it designs, crafts and reuses products. In a release, Coach said the concept looks...

Fashion

Evlox and Recover enter three-year partnership to promote circular textile technologies

Denim manufacturer Evlox and materials science company Recover signed a three-year agreement with the collaborative goal to advocate innovative technologies that drive the transition towards a circular textiles industry. Evlox will further commit by implementing Recover’s recycled cotton fibre in its denim products, which is created from textile...