It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Reformation

Event Roundup / Textile Exchange

8 November 2024

5 minutes

Thought leaders, stakeholders from across the industry gathered to address the staggering impact of fashion, a sector responsible for around 10% of global emissions, much of which is tied to the very materials that shape our products.

Call from Textile Exchange Meet: Future Needs to Thrive on Collaboration and Restoration

The message from the Textile Exchange conference at Pasadena was clear: transformation is within reach. From regenerative practices to circularity that benefits all, it was a clarion call to trade extractive growth for a future that thrives on restoration and collaboration.

Anette Cantagallo

Report

Synthetic Fashion / 2024 Status

17 September 2024

5 minutes

These companies continue to bet big on plastic fibres, showing little intention to change and resorting to tactics borrowed from the fossil fuel industry to distract and delay real progress.

Top Brands Using Synthetic Fibres More than Earlier; EU Initiatives on Reducing Fashion's Footprint Are Backfiring

Major fashion brands are using greater amounts of polluting synthetic textiles, a survey of 50 global firms— representing $1 trillion in market value and spanning fast fashion, sports, luxury and supermarket own-brands — reveals greater dependence on synthetic fibres that are driving fast fashion, and use of fossil fuel industry tactics, says a report by the Changing Markets Foundation.

Staff Writer

Footwear Innovation / New Initiative

6 August 2024

2 minutes

Around 23.9 billion shoes produced globally each year, are often made using over 40 different components from a range of materials including TPU, EVA, PU and rubber. The industry faces significant challenges due to this high complexity of shoe constructio

Fashion for Good, 7 Partners Launch Project to Accelerate NextGen Footwear Innovations and Circularity

Fashion for Good has launched a collaborative ambitious initiative aimed at accelerating the next generation of footwear innovations needed to drive circularity spanning four workstreams across the supply chain from materials to end of use.

Staff Writer

Going Circular / Fashion ReModel

22 May 2024

3 minutes

The Fashion ReModel initiative identifies three key drivers to achieve the vision of a circular economy for fashion: product design, circular business models and infrastructure.

8 Brands Join Fashion ReModel Initiative that Seeks to Scale up Business Models Not Relying on Selling New Items

Eight leading brands have joined a new collaborative initiative aimed to identify solutions and overcome challenges to begin decoupling revenue from production of new garments, advancing the long-term journey to make a circular economy for fashion a reality.

Staff Writer

Going Circular / US Initiative

20 April 2023

2 minutes

Standardisation should extend to product labelling, digital or otherwise, on new products, with the aim of better informing consumers of care, origins, and material contents of new items.

Terms and Definitions for Circular Fashion Need to be Standarised, says American Circular Textiles Group

The American Circular Textiles has called for standardisation of terms and definitions for circular fashion which would inform consumers better on care, origins, and material contents of new items, which will in turn facilitate resale, repair, and recycling.

Staff Writer

Fibre Innovation / Recycling

12 April 2023

3 minutes

The team anticipates even greater energy savings when it completes a full lifecycle assessment, as its preliminary analysis did not include yarn spinning, dyeing, or finishing, for which Kintra uses a lower temperature than traditional polyester.

Kintra Fiber’s Biodegradable Polyester to be Prototyped by Fashion For Good-led Brand Consortium

A year-long collaborative engagement, orchestrated by innovation platform Fashion for Good, will see three top brands coming together to prototype Kintra Fibers’ biodegradable polyester that promises reduction of fossil fuel-based synthetics and closer to the goal to be Climate Positive by 2025.

Staff Writer

Fossil Fuel Fashion / Trends 2022

14 December 2022

2 minutes

Brands have still not changed communication across their online channels. The Changing Markets Foundation investigation revealed high levels of greenwashing through the use of vague and unsubstantiated claims with regards to ‘sustainable’ materials, ‘preferred fibres’, ‘environmentally friendly fibres’ or ‘better’ materials.

Fashion’s Fossil Fuel Fancy: Boohoo Most Reliant on Synthetics, Nike and Inditex Biggest Users, Just 1/55 Brands Shows Promise

A thorough examination of the fashion industry’s climate targets has revealed that brands are not as ambitious as their barrage of press releases and net-zero marketing campaigns would lead us to believe. The 'Synthetics Anonymous 2.0: Fashion’s persistent plastic problem' report from Changing Markets Foundation, published today, has uncovered this and more.