"One of the dangers of becoming a publicly traded company is having to satisfy growth-hungry, and sometimes finicky, investors and stakeholders. For Allbirds, a focus on sustainability has been a key ...
2021
"New York-based startup Bucha Bio has developed a solution for unsustainable materials like animal leather and synthetic fabrics. It has made a new biotextile called Mirai, grown from infinitely renew ...
"Yarn Expo Autumn, the fair held in China earlier this month, welcomed nearly 429 exhibitors from seven countries and regions in Shanghai. The fair served over 13,000 visitors who were sourcing in-per ...
"Fashion retailer REVOLVE has partnered with Recover, a leading producer in recycled cotton fiber, to launch a new sustainable denim collection with REVOLVE-owned brand Lovers and Friends. The pairing ...
"The San Francisco-based venture capital firm 500 Global — which is focused on fast-growing technology companies and features in its portfolio a range of key digital players, such as Canva and The Rea ...
"Sustainable fashion. Is it actually a real thing? [...] Using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a technique or methodology that assesses the environmental impacts across all stages of the life cycle of a ...
"Today, the American Apparel & Footwear Association published a Mandarin translation of its Health & Safety Guidelines for Workers in Denim Finishing report, a comprehensive guidance dedicated to help ...
"COP26 is just around the corner, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an NGO-led initiative which recruits companies to set greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets in line with the Paris Agree ...
"Sun Chemical has launched Xennia Pearl pigment inks for high-speed industrial applications during Innovate 2021 Textile Innovation Week. The range, which includes inks for both mid-viscosity and high ...
"The fashion industry is rightfully vilified for being environmentally unsustainable. It takes over 4,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans and most of that water is not recycled. The industry i ...
"AAFA sent a letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed regarding the humanitarian crisis in Tigray and nearby regions. The Honorable Abiy Ahmed Prime Minister Government of Ethiopia Dear Mr. Prime Minister: ...
"The Ethical Fashion Initiative is coming to Paris next season, with events during Paris Fashion Week that it hopes will provide international visibility to African designers and attract investors. Th ...
"HeiQ announces a potential game-changer for the textile industry with the introduction of HeiQ AeoniQ -- a high performance cellulose yarn based on a new fiber derived from carbon negative materials. ...
"Even as climate change conversations reach the mainstream, there are 111 million metric tons of fabrics being produced on a yearly basis — an alarming 18 million of which is made up of oil-based nylo ...
"In recent months, the preorder model — used by the likes of Moda Operandi, Telfar, House of Sunny, newcomer Cider and Farfetch — is being seriously resurfaced as a remedy to fashion waste. While the ...
"After a year of collaborative development, Textile Exchange and TextileGenesis are pleased to announce the pilot release of Textile Exchange’s Electronic Trackit “eTrackit” program – a digital system ...
"Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) has invested AU$950,000 (US$713,800) in accelerating efforts to breed out flystrike. The allocation of funds means the organisation has now offered up an estimated AU ...
"Men want sustainable fashion, too. After the success of its Somewhere diffusion line, New Zealand-based sustainable label Maggie Marilyn launched Somewhere Man on Wednesday. [...] Eponymous designer ...
"Today at VF Corporation, we released our fourth sustainability & responsibility report, Made for Change. This report illustrates our continued leadership in driving and delivering measurable, industr ...
"This article focuses on a clothing manufacturer, Fashinza, and why it is guilty of greenwashing. This article also provides a brief explanation of what greenwashing is and why it has become more comm ...