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In response to the evolving fashion landscape, the British Fashion Council has decided to cancel the June edition of the London Fashion Week and instead scale back to more targetted programmes in London and Paris, in a bid to create strong foundations to amplify the British menswear business.

Environmental action NGO WRAP has come out with a Design for Recyclability Toolkit for Fashion and Textiles as a practical resource to help businesses integrate recyclability into product development.

Researchers for the first time have successfully and unobtrusively integrated into the core of a smart textile braid magnetic sensitivity which can be used for human-computer interactions, in a mechanically resilient and conformal way, making them suitable for everyday use.

A report by global environmental action NGO WRAP has established clear benchmarks for repair and resale using data from six companies and helped to develop a single methodology that can be applied by businesses of all shapes and sizes, to give robust and comparable data on big environmental savings from preloved and repair, showing that introducing a little circular living into our lives reduces the price and the environmental price tag too.

A breakthrough revolutionary thermoreversible adhesive technology that promises to make textile recycling significantly more scalable, reducing waste and improving sustainability in apparel manufacturing, is poised to transform the fashion industry.

The Robotics Living Lab (RoLL) has launched at the Manchester Fashion Institute to to create and produce more sustainably, modernising fashion manufacturing and helping to address the industry’s skills shortage.

A new research report explores how UK fashion and textile companies are developing sustainable and circular practices, including their response to regulatory change associated with green growth and the transition to net zero. The study urged on the need to forge the business case for firms to invest in gathering detailed supply chain data to obtain product-level carbon footprints, as well as launch new circular business models.

A new report examines the challenges and opportunities of integrating robotics and automation into UK manufacturing, offering targeted recommendations for the government and industry to modernise the sector and enhance workforce skills.

A newly established collaborative research hub in North East England will explore the extent and environmental impact of microfibre loss from textiles.