France

After a riotous welcome from an audience of fashion students in 1947, Christian Dior remarked: “For those who lived through the chaos of war, creation was survival.” This is the theme of the new Apple TV series, revealed in flashback: how the destruction and horror of war affected the world-renowned Parisian fashion market.

Refashion, a producer responsibility organisation, has launched Industrial Challenge, a project that seeks to deploy innovative industrial solutions for recycling non-reusable used textiles and footwear in France and Europe.

Three players from the textile industry have forged a partnership to give France its first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste to produce recycled fibres for the spinning, nonwovens, and composites industries.

The sourcing fash frat will now make a beeline for Paris to look for their Autumn/Winter 24/25 collections at Premiere Vision’s third edition of Fashion Rendez-Vous, beginning 13 September.

In some hours from now, a revitalised Première Vision Paris will open its doors to a congregation of fashion professionals to decode trends for the next season in a continuously evolving global trade scenario.

In a major step towards fighting plastic pollution, France based biotech company Carbios has secured funding of €53.5 million to set up the world’s first 100% PET biorecycling plant at Longlaville in the Grand-Est region.

The three-day Première Vision Paris gets under way in the fashion capital of the world on 4 July in a redesigned format with the spotlight on the changing imperatives of an industry in flux.

The just released 2023 Circular Fashion Index (CFX) by Kearney rues that the needle has barely moved since last year's report, with the 200 global brands analysed barely reaching an average of 2.97 on a circularity scale of 10.

The February 2023 edition will reflect the ramping up of Première Vision’s commitments to respond to the sector’s new needs and support its environmental and social transition. This will include an enhanced framework to inform industry players and provide them with concrete solutions in terms of sustainable sourcing and production.

With consumer authorities in Europe increasingly cracking down on companies that make sustainability claims not grounded in scientific facts, French luxury group Kering has updated its standards guide by adding chapters on cut, make, trim, and sustainability claims.