NFW news and archive

Vivobarefoot launches 98 percent natural sneaker in partnership with natural fiber Welding’s NFW PLIANT™

Vivobarefoot announces the launch of the Gobi II Sneaker Leather a pioneering step forward in regenerative design created in partnership with Natural Fiber Welding. Featuring the innovative NFW Pliant™ outsole, the new silhouette blends timeless sneaker aesthetics with a radically natural construction - bringing wearers closer to the ground and...

Fashion Partner Content

Sustainability to a new standard: Meet Lenzing and NFW’s plastic-free leather alternative

It's no secret that the fashion industry faces significant environmental challenges, with traditional textile production consuming a critical amount of vital resources and often relying on practices that are harmful to the planet, such as factory farming and the extraction of fossil fuels. As consumers become more aware of the environmental...

Fashion

Pangaia and NFW introduces new plant-based and plastic-free material

Materials science company Pangaia and Natural Fiber Welding (NFW) has unveiled the world’s first commercially available apparel made from Mirum, a new, plant-based and plastic-free material designed to be a solution for footwear, fashion, automotive, accessories, and upholstery. The latest innovation released through Pangaia Lab is an air gilet,...

Fashion

Lenzing and NFW collaborate on sustainable leather alternative

Austrian fibre producer Lenzing Group has teamed up with US-based material science company Natural Fiber Welding Inc. (NFW) to offer Tencel-branded fibres as another backer option to the current all-natural fabric backing for NFW’s patented plant-based technology Mirum. The Mirum x Tencel collaboration is currently being showcased for the first...

Featured

Fashion

Allbirds launches first plant-based leather sneaker

Sustainable footwear brand Allbirds has unveiled its latest innovation, the ‘Plant Pacer’ sneaker featuring 100 percent plastic-free plant leather made from all-natural materials such as rubber and plant oils. The ‘Plant Pacer’ marks a further step into the lifestyle footwear category for Allbirds, while also championing what it calls a “truly...

Member

Fashion

US fashion college apologizes for 'racist' runway show

A prestigious New York fashion college apologized on Wednesday after a catwalk featuring models wearing large prosthetic red lips, ears and bushy eyebrows was branded racist. The president of the Fashion Institute of Technology said it was investigating the use of the accessories in the February 7 show, which was part of New York Fashion Week....

FeaturedMember

Fashion

Alice + Olivia inspired by Fantasia for New York Fashion Week

Alice + Olivia's creative director Stacey Bendet is known for her maximalist use of color and her global eye for dressing women around the world, just recall her spring/summer 2019 collection which was literally about jet-setting women. It is hard to imagine how she'd be able to take a brand like hers even further, but this season Bendet brought...

Member

Fashion

Underwear gets the Tom Ford brief at NY Fashion Week

Tom Ford used his first fully-fledged men's runway show in New York on Tuesday to unveil a debut underpants collection, bathe a Manhattan landmark in violet and give his classic suiting a Los Angeles twist. It was a fall/winter 2018 collection of quintessential Tom Ford tailoring and statement sunglasses, offering the international jet-set a...

Featured

Fashion

Tom Ford kicks off New York Fashion Week with 90s sequins

Tom Ford on Wednesday opened New York Fashion Week in throwback '90s sequin glory, kicking off the spring/summer 2018 season and looking to silence criticism that the bi-annual style fest is losing its mojo. More than 230,000 people flood America's cultural capital to attend the September and February editions, where hundreds of shows, deals,...

FeaturedMember

Fashion

New York Fashion Week kicks off with millennials on the mind

New York turns fashion hub of the world for a week starting Thursday, as top designers do battle for the hearts and minds of millennials in a social-media whirlwind of models and celebrities. US designer Tom Ford -- fresh back from a stint in Paris -- will open the extravaganza that is New York's Spring/Summer Fashion Week on Wednesday evening....