Fashion for Good, the global initiative to make the fashion industry more innovative and sustainable, is launching the world’s first toolkit on the product development of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified denim and materials. The guide includes lessons learned by fast fashion brand C&A while developing its C2C denim in collaboration with Fashion...
Aug 16, 2018
Stockholm - Making new fibers and textiles out of food crop wastewas the public's favourite sustainable innovation from the 2018 Global Change Award, as the Crop-A-Porter has been named the main winner of the H&M Foundation's annual innovation competition. Winning a 300,000 euro grant, in addition to mentoring and access to the year-long...
Mar 20, 2018
London - The fashion industry's current business model, which sees a huge amount of clothing produced only to be thrown away after a few wears, needs to be changed. A new system is needed to ensure clothes are better designed and last longer before being recycled to make new garments, stresses a new report from leading sustainable designer...
Nov 28, 2017
Written by Hyun Yeu. Yeu worked as head of design at Gsus for the last six years. Before that he owned his own label Ado Les Scents. Amsterdam - Taking place twice a year, Kingpins Amsterdam is the place to be for denim lovers from around the world. A wide range of fabric manufacturers, denim mills, suppliers, stitching-, trimming- and washing...
Oct 26, 2017
London - As Chinese textile manufacturers and leading fashion brands continue to investigate ways to clean-up their supply chains and become more sustainable, new opportunities to lay the foundation for a clean and circular business model emerge. In the new report “Insights From China’s Textile Manufacturers: Gaps to overcome for clean &...
Aug 30, 2017
London - 7.5 percent of the global fashion industry have signed the Global Fashion Agenda's 'Call to Action for a Circular Fashion System', committing to accelerate the transition to a circular fashion system. 64 leading fashion companies and corporations have signed the commitment letter, which represents a total of 143 brands and account for...
Jul 10, 2017
Fact - the fashion industry remains one of the most environmentally damaging industries in the world. In 2015 alone the global industry consumed 79 billion cubic meters of water, released 1,715 million tons of CO2 and produced 92 million tons of waste alone according to data from the Boston Consulting Group. In addition, because the industry has...
May 17, 2017
London - The fashion leaders of tomorrow are acutely aware of the problems they stand to inherit from the current industry which range from pollution to gender inequality and overconsumption. Which is why they insist on making sustainability the primary norm of the fashion industry. In order to achieve this, a number of fashion students from the...
May 15, 2017
If the global fashion industry wishes to secure its future then now is the time to come together to and takes steps towards a circular system. That was the main takeaway from the Copenhagen Fashion Summit this week, which took place on May 11 at the Koncerthuset in one of the most green countries in the world: Denmark. Industry leaders from...
May 12, 2017
Global fashion retailer C&A together with its corporate foundation, the C&A Foundation, wants to transform the fashion industry and drive its transition to a circular economy. Thus, as a founding partner, it has launched the global initiative Fashion for Good that wants to bring industry players together to "reimagine how fashion is designed,...
Mar 30, 2017
London - Once seen as a niche part of the fashion industry, being eco-conscious has rapidly become one of the hottest 'topics' of our time. From luxury fashion houses to fast-fashion retailers, and everything in between - more and more fashion companies are responding to mounting consumer interest and 'going green.' However, in spite of all the...
May 11, 2016