Italian fashion house Gucci has announced a new strategic partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to accelerate its vision of a circular economy and regenerative agriculture for the future. Ellen MacArthur Foundation is a charity committed to creating a circular economy that delivers better outcomes for people and the environment and...
Jul 6, 2022
Timberland has unveiled the Timberloop Trekker City Hiker, the brand's first footwear designed for full circularity, alongside the news that it is expanding its product take-back programme, which launched in the US earlier this year to include markets in Europe. New for spring/summer 2022, the Timberloop Trekker City Hiker has been designed with...
Apr 22, 2022
Spanish fashion group Mango is teaming up with I:CO, a supplier of global solutions for the collection, reuse and recycling of used clothing and footwear, to localise and improve collection donations from its customers in Europe. The move is to advance the retailer’s circular economy strategy and will see Mango working with I:CO, a subsidiary of...
Apr 14, 2022
Fitness brand Lululemon is expanding its ‘Like New’ recommerce programme to all its US stores from April 22, following a successful pilot in Texas and California in 2021. The ‘Like New’ trade-in and resale programme, allows consumers to trade in pre-loved Lululemon clothing in exchange for an e-gift card at one of more than 390 participating US...
Apr 12, 2022
New research from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation reveals that circular business models, in sectors such as rental and resale, have the potential to grow from 3.5 percent of the global fashion market today to 23 percent by 2030, representing a 700 billion US dollar opportunity. Currently, the rental, resale, repair, and remaking sectors are...
Nov 23, 2021
Outdoor brand The North Face is transforming into a circular business model with the launch of a new circular e-commerce platform that will re-sell, repair and recycle clothing to keep it out of landfill. The circular re-commerce platform, The North Face Renewed, will launch as a pilot scheme in Germany on May 4. The initiative will not only...
Apr 22, 2021
A number of leading fashion companies including Burberry, Stella McCartney, H&M and Inditex have signed a pact committing to working towards a circular economy in response to the widespread impact of Covid-19. They join a number of policymakers, CEOs, and other influential figures calling on businesses and governments across the world to join...
Jun 15, 2020
A cutting edge machine looking to revolutionise textile to textile recycling by automatically sorting large volumes of post-consumer garments is now up and running in Wormerveer, just outside of Amsterdam. The Fibersort machine, a Near Infrared (NIR) based technology, is capable of sorting around 900kg of post-consumer textiles per hour in 45...
Mar 12, 2020
Fast fashion brands drop new collections as often as every two weeks, illustrating the fast cycle of manufacturing, buying and disposing of which drives the fashion industry’s wastefulness and polluting impact. In fact, it is estimated that more than half of the fast fashion produced is disposed of in under a year. But it appears that the “...
Jan 31, 2020
The European textile industry has to waste less and recycle more after being highlighted as a key sector by the European Commission in its industrial strategy for a transition to a circular economy. With the Commission's new plan, voluntary green initiatives by the textile industry could become legally binding in the future. In its plan for a...
Dec 13, 2019
StitchFix, ThredUp, Rent-the-Runway, The RealReal and Vestiaire Collective are just some of the leaders defining the new frontier of shopping for clothes, from fashion subscription services to the re-sale revolution, to peer-to-peer marketplaces, that is changing how we consume fashion. As the global need for sustainability challenges the...
Aug 19, 2019
“Circularity” is replacing “sustainability” as the buzzword in the fashion industry. After all, it doesn’t suffice for companies to rethink the materials and energy used to produce their clothing, they should also take responsibility for the entire life cycle of the product. With this idea in mind, H&M, Target, C&A Foundation, PVH Corp,...
Jul 17, 2019
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