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Six years of the Fashion for Good Museum: How to tell the story of sustainable fashion?

The Fashion for Good museum is closing its doors. After six years of putting sustainable textiles and fashion stories in the spotlight, the organisation Fashion for Good will focus on other initiatives. In those six years, however, FFG has learned plenty about showcasing these stories and how to make sustainability accessible. In an interview...

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Sustainable fashion materials in 2050: a business challenge based on trust

Fashion for Good opened its doors last week to a selection of innovators to present their materials to over 150 visitors. Collectively, they are set to drastically make the textile and fashion industry more sustainable - with equivalent qualities, at a competitive price, and at scale. It was an occasion that had to happen at some point from the...

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Fashion for Good Museum to announce vocational training toolkits at special launch event

After launching its circular fashion programme for vocational education students in November 2021, Fashion for Good is taking further steps to help students at the MBO (vocational training) level in the Netherlands. The Dutch platform for sustainable fashion innovation notified FashionUnited that it has developed several educational toolkits at...

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Fashion For Good Museum launches Educational Toolkit: 'The Circular Fashion Programme'

AMSTERDAM - Tomorrow, Friday March 8, the Fashion for Good Museum is launching an educational programme for vocational higher education: the Circular Fashion Programme. This programme focuses on sustainable fashion and circularity, and is available for free on the museum website. The toolkit contains all the resources needed to deliver the...

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Fashion for Good unveils new strategy, transforms museum into multipurpose space

Fashion for Good will continue to focus on the application and dissemination of regenerative fashion innovations. The new approach also sees the museum transformed into a multipurpose and co-working space as part of the new strategy. The goal of the renewed specialisation is to strengthen the innovation platform and increase efforts in branding,...

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Bangladesh Apparel Exchange and Fashion for Good to advance chemical textile recycling

Last week, non-profit Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE) organised a roadshow in collaboration with global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good to pave the way for chemical recycling of textiles in the country. It was supported by two tech start-ups, Circ and Infinited Fiber Company, which specialise in chemical textile-to-textile...

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Fashion for Good introduces toolkit tackling waste in India

Sustainable fashion platform Fashion for Good has released a new toolkit that looks to tackle the problem of textile waste in India through insights, assessments and guidance that hope to advance recycling in the region. The ‘Sorting for Circularity’ toolkit was unveiled during the organisation’s Reimagining Textile Waste conference, currently...

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New Fashion For Good exhibition centres work by students and emerging designers

The Fashion For Good Museum in Amsterdam has opened a new exhibition featuring Dutch fashion students and emerging designers. The exhibition, entitled ‘News from the Future’ showcases different answers to the question: ‘what could the future of fashion look like?’. Dutch fashion students from institutions across the Netherlands, including the...

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Fashion for Good launches new footwear recycling pilot

Sustainability innovation platform Fashion for Good is teaming up with founding partners Adidas, Inditex, Target and Zalando to test and validate footwear recycling processes to support the uptake of recycled content in footwear, towards a more circular footwear industry. The new pilot programme will be with FastFeetGrinded and will see Fashion...

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Fashion for Good welcomes Responsible to its 2023 Innovation Programme

With the collaborative goal to push the fashion industry towards a “more sustainable future”, the global circularity platform Responsible was selected to join Fashion for Good’s 2023 Innovation Programme, alongside 12 other startups. The programme helps innovative fashion startups to accelerate their growth over the span of nine months, focusing...

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Fashion for Good launches Sorting for Circularity USA project

The global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good has launched its new Sorting for Circularity USA project today, which will focus on the North-American textile-to-textile recycling market. External brand partners are Adidas, Inditex, Levi Strauss & Co. and Target, and external partners are Eastman, H&M and Nordstrom. The 18-month project...

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Fashion for Good unveils new exhibition dedicated to cotton

Fashion for Good has opened the doors of a new exhibition called 'Knowing Cotton Otherwise', which highlights the rich history behind what is perhaps the world’s most well-known fabric. The exhibition highlights the relationship between cotton and the fashion industry; the role of cotton in an increasingly tightly woven web of global cultures;...