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Fashion for Good and leading brands to tackle microfibre pollution caused by fibre fragmentation

Fibre fragmentation is the breakdown of textile fibres into smaller parts, for example when washing or wearing clothes but also during the dyeing process. Particularly harmful is the release of tiny pieces of synthetic fibres, namely microplastics. They can accumulate in the ecosystem and pollute it and waterways, harm aquatic life by entering...

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Fashion for Good & BCG: Demand for next-gen materials could outpace supply by 2030

“Materials lie at the heart of the fashion industry. They form the foundation of every garment, shaping the design, feel and functionality of the product. They also define the brand’s narrative and its appeal to consumers,” starts a new report published today and created by global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good together with the...

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Fashion for Good launches 'Closing the Footwear Loop' for circular shoes

Fashion for Good, the Amsterdam platform for sustainable fashion innovations, has launched 'Closing the Footwear Loop', a project focused on solving the circularity issues in the footwear industry by uniting 14 brands. The goal is to transform the current linear production process – where shoes are often thrown away after use – into a circular...

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Six years of the Fashion for Good Museum: How to tell the story of sustainable fashion?

The Fashion for Good museum is closing its doors. After six years of putting sustainable textiles and fashion stories in the spotlight, the organisation Fashion for Good will focus on other initiatives. In those six years, however, FFG has learned plenty about showcasing these stories and how to make sustainability accessible. In an interview...

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Sustainable fashion materials in 2050: a business challenge based on trust

Fashion for Good opened its doors last week to a selection of innovators to present their materials to over 150 visitors. Collectively, they are set to drastically make the textile and fashion industry more sustainable - with equivalent qualities, at a competitive price, and at scale. It was an occasion that had to happen at some point from the...

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Fashion for Good Museum to announce vocational training toolkits at special launch event

After launching its circular fashion programme for vocational education students in November 2021, Fashion for Good is taking further steps to help students at the MBO (vocational training) level in the Netherlands. The Dutch platform for sustainable fashion innovation notified FashionUnited that it has developed several educational toolkits at...

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Fashion For Good Museum launches Educational Toolkit: 'The Circular Fashion Programme'

AMSTERDAM - Tomorrow, Friday March 8, the Fashion for Good Museum is launching an educational programme for vocational higher education: the Circular Fashion Programme. This programme focuses on sustainable fashion and circularity, and is available for free on the museum website. The toolkit contains all the resources needed to deliver the...

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Fashion for Good unveils new strategy, transforms museum into multipurpose space

Fashion for Good will continue to focus on the application and dissemination of regenerative fashion innovations. The new approach also sees the museum transformed into a multipurpose and co-working space as part of the new strategy. The goal of the renewed specialisation is to strengthen the innovation platform and increase efforts in branding,...

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Bangladesh Apparel Exchange and Fashion for Good to advance chemical textile recycling

Last week, non-profit Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE) organised a roadshow in collaboration with global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good to pave the way for chemical recycling of textiles in the country. It was supported by two tech start-ups, Circ and Infinited Fiber Company, which specialise in chemical textile-to-textile...

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Fashion for Good introduces toolkit tackling waste in India

Sustainable fashion platform Fashion for Good has released a new toolkit that looks to tackle the problem of textile waste in India through insights, assessments and guidance that hope to advance recycling in the region. The ‘Sorting for Circularity’ toolkit was unveiled during the organisation’s Reimagining Textile Waste conference, currently...

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New Fashion For Good exhibition centres work by students and emerging designers

The Fashion For Good Museum in Amsterdam has opened a new exhibition featuring Dutch fashion students and emerging designers. The exhibition, entitled ‘News from the Future’ showcases different answers to the question: ‘what could the future of fashion look like?’. Dutch fashion students from institutions across the Netherlands, including the...

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Fashion for Good launches new footwear recycling pilot

Sustainability innovation platform Fashion for Good is teaming up with founding partners Adidas, Inditex, Target and Zalando to test and validate footwear recycling processes to support the uptake of recycled content in footwear, towards a more circular footwear industry. The new pilot programme will be with FastFeetGrinded and will see Fashion...