Visits: 22 PARIS – Messe Frankfurt says the vast majority of buyers at the ongoing Texworld Evolution Paris trade fair this week, now ask exhibitors for products with sustainable attributes. Speaking to Ecotextile News at the event in Porte de …
Interdisciplinary event seeks circularity collaboration
Visits: 17 LEEDS – Figures from industry, academia and policy-making will attend a fashion sustainability symposium later this month, with the goal of harnessing wide-ranging expertise to propose new environmental and design frameworks. At the event, hosted by the University …
Première Vision Paris to embrace deadstock
Visits: 15 PARIS – The Première Vision Paris trade show has announced that it is to champion the repurposing of deadstock materials in the fashion industry’s creative process for the first time. Organisers of the event want to embrace the …
Threaded Together: A three-part podcast on cotton
Visits: 28 In a new three-part sponsored series entitled, Threaded Together, podcast host Philip Berman looks at Cotton Incorporated’s role in improving the sustainability of cotton in the textile industry. Cotton Incorporated a US-based, not-for-profit company, provides resources and research to …
Textile Exchange conference opens in London
Visits: 39 LONDON – Textile Exchange CEO Claire Bergkamp has opened the industry organisation’s annual conference here in London with a plenary speech on the sustainability challenges facing the sector. With more than 1,300 people attending the event in person, …
Accelerating Circularity to host circular cotton events
Visits: 31 NEW YORK – The Accelerating Circularity initiative will host two events during the upcoming Textile Exchange conference in London. Focusing on mechanically recycled cotton, it is hoped that both events will help catalyse new circular supply chains and …
SDC to host conference on sustainability
Visits: 32 MANCHESTER – Sustainability and circularity in the global textile colouration sector will be the focus of an international conference next summer by the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC). Taking place on the 18-19th June 2024 at Manchester …
Fashion industry convenes for GFA sustainability summit
Visits: 37 BOSTON – Representatives from across the fashion industry gathered at the Global Fashion Summit in Boston this week to hear about the challenges, differences, and opportunities facing the sector as it moves towards a more sustainable value chain. …
Ten innovators share H&M Foundation prize
Visits: 28 STOCKHOLM – Grant funding worth €2 million will be split equally between the ten fashion industry innovators selected as winners of the Global Change Award 2023, run annually by H&M Foundation. Novel materials and technological breakthroughs dominate this year’s …
More speakers confirmed for Planet Textiles
Visits: 30 MILAN – More new speakers have been announced for the forthcoming Planet Textiles event which kicks off on June 12th in the Congress Centre at ITMA 2023 in Milan. They include Zubeida Zwavel, executive director of Centre for …