SUSTAINABLE FASHION news and archive

Fashion's growth is surpassing sustainability efforts, says report

Growth in the fashion industry is hampering sustainability targets as environmental impact from brands, retailers and manufacturers remains high. Current reductions in carbon footprints, water usage and embracing circular businesses is far slower than the rate of growth. The UK Government has announced policies and proposals to decarbonise all...

2 Dec 2022

Fashion

Cupra partners with sustainable fashion studio Raeburn to mark its first electric vehicle

Raeburn, the responsible design studio and platform founded by Christopher Raeburn, has partnered with Spanish automakers Cupra to create a bespoke wrap for its Born car. The unique collaboration features a parachute design, a signature of the Raeburn house, cladding the car manufacturer’s first fully electric vehicle. In a statement Raeburn...

29 Nov 2022

Business

Sustainable Brand Platform launches sustainability data intelligence site

Fashion tech startup Sustainable Brand Platform (SBP) has unveiled a new platform that aims to aid fashion companies in taking control of their sustainability data and accelerate their sustainability performances. SBP digitalises the whole fashion supply chain in order to provide real-time data and insights needed to integrate sustainability...

28 Nov 2022

Business |Interview Featured

“Soil is the answer”: Leading model and activist Arizona Muse on sustainability in fashion

Fashion photoshoots and the model’s high life sound like a world away from farming, soil and the big outdoors. Dirt, however, is exactly what model Arizona Muse finds herself dealing with on a daily basis now. In 2021, the model turned activist founded her charity, named ‘Dirt’, which is dedicated to regenerating soil and promoting biodynamic...

28 Nov 2022

Fashion Featured

Resale platform Vestiaire Collective to stop selling fast fashion items

Second-hand fashion giant Vestiaire Collective has announced it will ban all fast fashion products from its platform from November 22 ahead of Black Friday. The Paris-based company said the move is part of its “mission to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy”, and “reinforces the notion of buying quality over quantity and...

23 Nov 2022

BusinessFeatured

Sustainability Leadership Award recognises 18 green factories in Bangladesh

Let’s imagine a land where garment workers had factories that provided a safe and pleasant working environment with greenery to spend their breaks in, additionally state-of-the-art machinery, free health care and child care, a fair price shop to do groceries, integrative policies for specially abled workers, empowerment training for female...

22 Nov 2022

Fashion

Better Cotton expands efforts to southern Chad through new partnerships

Better Cotton, a non-profit that promotes and teaches better standards in cotton farming, is expanding its efforts to southern Chad. The organisation has inked partnerships with IDH, a sustainable trade initiative organisation, and Cotontchad, an agribusiness company working with smallholder farmers in the southern region of Chad. Better Cotton...

22 Nov 2022

Fashion Featured

Robyn Lynch among eight finalists of 2023 Woolmark Prize

Irish fashion designer Robyn Lynch is one of eight finalists announced for the 2023 edition of The International Woolmark Prize, an award that celebrates fashion talents working with Merino wool. The other seven finalists are Paolina Russo from the UK; Rhude from the US; A. Roege Hove from Denmark; Bluemarble from France; Lagos Space Programme...

22 Nov 2022

Business

Vagabond Shoemakers introduces sustainability manifesto to highlight efforts

Vagabond Shoemakers has debuted a new sustainability manifesto in a bid to raise awareness for the brand’s efforts and encourage shoppers’ participation. Set to go live on November 25, ‘Make every step count’ was developed by the brand to encompass its “four C’s” – the craft, the choice, the care and the change. These elements refer to...

21 Nov 2022

BusinessFeatured

Made in Bangladesh Week asserts Bangladesh’s position as reliable sourcing destination

The first ever Made in Bangladesh Week (MIBW), which concluded on Friday, managed to not only put Bangladesh on the map but also highlighted the many advantages this sourcing country provides. By doing so, the event turned the “Made in Bangladesh” label - originally connected with fast fashion and cheap labour - into a mark of quality and...

21 Nov 2022

Business

How brands and retailers can promote sustainability throughout their business

“Being a sustainable brand is a responsibility, not a choice,” started Verte’s new e-book on ‘How Retailers and Brands Can Promote Sustainability’. The provider of a supply chain management platform used the booklet to highlight that more and more customers “expect” to make purchases from businesses that value green efforts. The report aimed to...

18 Nov 2022

Fashion

Football and upcycling: a young designer in France turns shirts into corsets

Paris - At 19, from her bedroom workshop in the Paris suburbs, she is giving old football shirts a second life by transforming them into corsets, a colourful, ethical and eco-friendly concept that has caught the eye of a Parisian fashion mogul in the run-up to the World Cup. "I do everything myself, from collecting the jerseys to designing and...

17 Nov 2022