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Marimekko and Ikea unveil wellness-inspired collection

Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has unveiled a limited-edition collection in collaboration with Finnish design house Marimekko inspired by Nordic nature, wellness, and self-care rituals. The limited-edition ‘Bastua’ collection launches globally in March and consists of 26 products ranging from furniture to glassware and textiles in vibrant...

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H&M, Inditex and Mango among retailers establishing textile waste association

Decathlon, H&M, Ikea, Inditex, Kiabi, Mango and Tendam have partnered to create the Association for Textile Waste Management, with the aim of managing clothing and footwear waste generated in the Spanish market. Through association with the Collective System of Extended Producer Responsibility (SCRAP) legislation, the group wants to boost...

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Ikea’s Make it Circular Challenge invites designers and creative entrepreneurs

The Make it Circular Challenge is a partnership between Amsterdam-based non-profit organisation What Design Can Do (WDCD) and the Ikea Foundation, an organisation of home furnishing giant Ikea that tackles inequality. For the fourth time, the challenge calls on innovators worldwide to submit solutions that tackle climate change through circular...

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H&M launches design venture programme with Ikea’s Ingka Group

H&M has partnered with the Ingka Group, the largest Ikea franchisee, to launch a design venture for creatives, piloting in London. Atelier100, the duo’s new incubator programme, has been designed to help creators to grow their businesses through mentorships and create “commercially viable” products for a new store, which will open in Livat...

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Timeline: A look at Virgil Abloh’s celebrated career

Following the sad and unexpected news that Virgil Abloh has passed away on November 28, FashionUnited takes a look at the designer’s historic and celebrated career. Abloh’s work has ranged from music to art to fashion, with the designer making his mark in whatever creative form he was working in. From an architectural student in Illinois to the...

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Ikea buys former Topshop flagship in London's Oxford Circus

Once a not-to-be-missed fashion destination smack in the middle of London’s Oxford Circus, the former Topshop flagship has been sold to Ikea, the famed purveyors of inexpensive, flatpack furniture. The new owner’s wares are far removed from that of trend-led Topshop, once the empire of the high street with its seven sprawling floors offering the...

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Large scale Ikea and H&M Group study shows potential of recycled textiles

Inter Ikea, the holding controlling the Swedish furniture giant Ikea, and the H&M Group initiated a large-scale study in 2019 to analyse the chemical content in recycled textiles. The aim of the study has been to strategically increase the knowledge and to overcome challenges to exchange data, and stimulate chemical transparency across the...

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Decoding Ikea's entrance into the clothing market

It was three years ago. Ikea's large blue tote bag and its coated canvas that folds up neatly to store in the middle of other plastic bags, became a fashion item through the Balenciaga brand. The Parisian house and its creative director, Demna Gvasalia, had accessorised the silhouettes of its 2017 summer fashion show with large blue bags, a...

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H&M Group and Ikea join to study recycled materials

The H&M Group and furniture giant Ikea have joined together to conduct a large-scale study of recycled textiles, as the companies announced at the 2019 Textile Exchange Sustainability Conference. The two companies are currently reviewing chemical content in post-consumer textile recycling in a study that has been underway since May 2018. H&M has...

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Vitra launches collaboration with Virgil Abloh

Swiss furniture company Vitra, famous for manufacturing the works of renowned designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton and Jean Prouvé, is soon to launch a collaboration with Virgil Abloh. Best known for his luxury streetwear label Off-White, Abloh also serves as Creative Director of Menswear for Louis Vuitton. Vitra took to...

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Zandra Rhodes to launch homeware with Ikea

Swedish homeware giant Ikea has announced that it is launching a collection of homeware products with British designer Zandra Rhodes that will be an exploration of “pattern and colour” as it looks to see what happens when colourful fashion prints are put into the home context. Rhodes, known for her colourful and bold textile prints, will...

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Stora Enso joins H&M and Ikea in TreeToTextile project

Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso has joined The H&m Group, Inter Ikea Group and SunPine founder Lars Stigsson in their joint venture TreeToTextile AB. The project aims to develop new textile fibres from renewable forest raw materials, at attractive costs. All four partners have an equally big stake in the company. Stora Enso has...