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Sustainable fashion platform Renoon launches new site and app

Renoon, a platform that helps customers discover sustainable and ethical fashion companies, has launched a new website and app today. The Amsterdam-based fashion-tech company lets shoppers search for sustainable fashion using a range of parameters, such as materials used, carbon-neutral, vegan, blockchain traced, second-hand, and rental as well...

16 Feb 2021

Fashion

Big fashion brands back Bangladesh recycling scheme

Over 30 fashion brands and manufacturers have joined a new initiative to collaborate on cutting down textile waste and reusing materials to create new products in Bangladesh’s garments factories. The Circular Fashion Partnership announced this week that it is bringing brands such as H&M, OVS, Marks & Spencer, Berska, Pull & Bear, C&A, Kmart...

12 Feb 2021

Business

13 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in January 2021

With biodegradable and other more sustainable denim innovations, products and collections, the fashion industry’s efforts towards more circularity and a cleaner footprint continue in 2021. Young brands, such as Qwstion, the Swiss company making premium bags, forego traditional materials altogether and make the unusual work for them, in this case...

12 Feb 2021

Fashion

Weekday launches jeans made from 100 percent post-consumer waste

H&M Group-owned brand Weekday has launched a limited-edition pair of its popular Rowe Jeans made of 100 percent post-consumer waste. Weekday teamed up with Infinited Fiber Company (IFC) to create the jeans made from a material comprising 50 percent organic cotton and 50 percent Infinna, which comes from 100 percent reborn textile waste. The...

5 Feb 2021

Business

These were the sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in 2020

The year 2020 started harmless enough with several good sustainability initiatives, but they were soon overshadowed by the global Corona pandemic. From March onwards, with lockdowns and restrictions for brick and mortar stores selling non-essentials like clothing, accessories and shoes, it was more about the survival of many brands and retailers...

31 Dec 2020

Business

20 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in December 2020

In December too, the fashion industry sought to advance its efforts towards more sustainability, recycling and a generally more circular economy. Particularly encouraging: collaborations between brands and tech hubs such as H&M with HKRITA, Bestseller and Cyclo, or Fashion for Good and Biofabricate to accelerate innovations. The last month of...

29 Dec 2020

Fashion

By Far partners with Vestiaire Collective on a circular collaboration

Accessories brand By Far is teaming up with pre-owned fashion platform Vestiaire Collective in a new circular collaboration. The Bulgarian label will offer a collection of upcycled and archive pieces as it looks to “give new life to pre-loved pieces, by creating something new from something old and extending the lifecycle of By Far products”....

25 Nov 2020

Fashion

New Cotton Project launched to prove circular fashion possible

The European Union is funding a new project to harness fashion industry collaborations and technology to create circular fashion. Under the ‘New Cotton Project,’ a consortium of brands, manufacturers, suppliers, innovators and research institutes will be tasked with proving that circular, sustainable fashion “is not only an ambition, but can be...

25 Nov 2020

Business

36 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in October 2020

In October, the fashion industry’s efforts in the areas of sustainability, resale and circularity seemed to have switched to a higher gear. Cooperations especially came through, be it to introduce innovative new materials, provide second hand clothes or ecological innovations. Brands and retailers are still going strong when it comes to becoming...

5 Nov 2020

Video

Video: Gucci reveals ‘Gucci Off The Grid’

Luxury fashion giant, Gucci, has launched ‘Gucci Off The Grid’. It is the brand’s first collection from the Gucci Circular Line, and the pieces in the collection are made from recycled, organic, bio-based and sustainably sourced materials. Gucci has partnered with Sims to create a digital-recreation of the circular fashion line, it is a...

23 Oct 2020

Fashion

Tommy Hilfiger launches circular initiative, Tommy For Life

PVH-owned Tommy Hilfiger is the latest big-name fashion brand to be launching a circular initiative to breathe new life into old clothes. Tommy for Life is a new circular business model that will take pre-owned or damaged Tommy Hilfiger and Tommy Jeans garments and either fix them or ‘remix’ them into completely new, limited-edition styles. They...

8 Oct 2020

Business

The future of garment technology in circular fashion

‘Technology’ in fashion is a wide-reaching term, one that covers anything from product data and traceability, to logistics, inventory management and garment labels. As an umbrella term, technology covers all of these topics and is an increasingly pivotal enabler of circular business models. But when we talk about technology we are no longer...

17 Sep 2020