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

Christiane Dolva

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

20 February 2025

2 minutes

The Fashion ReModel is not just about changing practices for a few brands—it aims to inspire and enable the entire industry to adopt a new way of doing business in fashion.

The Fashion ReModel: Making Money without Making More Clothes

Isle of Wight, U.K.: The Fashion ReModel is a demonstration project that’s redefining how revenue is generated in the fashion industry, embracing rental, repair, resale, and remake practices as commercially viable alternatives to new garment production. Led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and supported by H&M Foundation, the project empowers...

Climate Action / Open Lab

5 September 2024

3 minutes

The Green Machine 2.0 is a technology that can separate post-consumer polyester and cotton blends through hydrothermal treatment, enabling much-needed recycling of blend textiles.

HKRITA, H&M Foundation Launch Open Lab to Focus on Climate Action and Industry Collaboration

Open Lab, a 20,000 sq ft facility, launched by the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) and the H&M Foundation, is set to become a global hub for sustainable innovation, focusing on climate action and industry-wide collaboration to showcase solutions and ongoing research to enable industry to quickly adjust, iterate, pilot and scale faster.

Staff Writer

Innovation / GCA 2023

9 June 2023

3 minutes

Global Change Award winners Announced, H&M Doubles Grant and Winners

The 2023 edition of the Global Change Award has a total of 10 winners and will share a €2 million grant from nonprofit H&M Foundation. The grant has been doubled.

Staff Writer

Microfibre Pollution / Sound Solution

17 April 2023

2 minutes

Acousweep utilises sweeping acoustic waves in a specially shaped chamber to physically trap and separate microplastic fibres from wastewater effectively. No chemical, solvent or biological additives are needed.

HKRITA Taps into Sound Waves to Reduce Microplastic Pollution

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has tapped into high frequency ultrasound to remove polluting microplastics from textile-apparel manufacturing facilities, preventing them from going into the sea and further damaging marine life.