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Hemp denim: Fashion for Good aims to scale up sustainable alternative

Hemp has been praised in the denim industry for years, yet it has not been scaled up. Fashion for Good has announced a new project to investigate this issue. The project involves innovative start-ups and commercial partners such as Bestseller, C&A, Reformation, PDS Limited and Target. Two denim producers, Bossa from Turkey and Nice Denim from...

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New Expo Open In Fashion For Good Museum: “Fashion Week: A New Era”

The Fashion for Good Museum opens a new exhibition “Fashion Week: A New Era” on May 20. Every year during Fashion Week the latest fashion is shown on catwalks in Paris, Milan and New York and other metropoles across the globe. This iconic event has a major impact on the fashion industry and on our own wardrobes. In 'Fashion Week: A New Era', the...

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A suit of banana fibres: 'Grow' exhibition at Fashion for Good shows a future with biomaterials

Substances from mushrooms and orange peels, dyes from bacteria and fungi, materials that you can reuse indefinitely and then biodegrade. It may still sound like future music, but the development of biomaterials has been moving at lightning speed in recent years. And that's a good thing, because many of the regular materials in fashion are...

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Fashion for Good announces first recipient of the Good Fashion Fund

Amsterdam-based sustainable fashion initiative Fashion for Good has announced the first beneficiary of the Good Fashion Fund, which aims to drive sustainable manufacturing practices. Indian manufacturer Pratibha Syntex Limited, which supplies textiles and garments to fashion giants like C&A, H&M, Patagonia and Zara, has received the 4.5 million...

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Fashion for Good project with Bestseller and Kering demonstrates tracing of viscose

Global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good reported the successful completion of its Viscose Traceability Pilot in time for World Rainforest Day on 22nd June 2021. The pilot is a consortium project with partners Bestseller and Kering and supported by Zalando to trace sustainable viscose in garments using innovator TextileGenesis’...

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Fashion for Good launches the Renewable Carbon Textiles Project

Sustainable fashion initiative Fashion for Good has launched a project to accelerate the development of Polyhydroxyalkanoates or PHA polymer fibres, a biosynthetic alternative to fossil-based fibres. The production of virgin fossil-based polyester fibres contributes to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Biosynthetics made from renewable...

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Fashion for Good launches Sorting of Circularity project

Fashion for Good has announced the Sorting of Circularity project that aims to drive textile recycling through the use of technology. The initiative will carry out a comprehensive textile waste analysis using improved Near Infrared technology and will also map textile recyclers’ capabilities. The project then ultimately aims to lead to the...

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Fashion for Good selects young creatives to create Grow 2.0 exhibition with biomaterials

As announced at the beginning of the year, global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good has been looking for creatives for its talent project Grow, a three-month program that will start in July 2021. Now, six young creatives have been selected and presented to the public: four fashion designers - Frederieke Broekgaarden, Charlotte Bakkenes,...

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Fashion for Good showcases biomaterials in latest exhibition

The Fashion for Good Museum in Amsterdam has launched a new year-long exhibition shining a spotlight on biomaterials. The Grow Expo showcases a selection of innovations, designers and brands that are reimaging the materials used in the notoriously polluting fashion industry, from fruit skin fabric and mushroom ‘leather’ to spider-silk and algae...

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Denim innovations: How brands are cleaning up the industry

The denim industry, as a part of the wider textile industry, which is one of the most polluting industries in the world, has come a long way since Levi Strauss developed its first pair of blue jeans for gold miners in the San Francisco area in 1873. Note that the first Levi’s blue jeans were reserved for men. Women had to wait until the next...

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Fashion for Good is looking for creatives for sustainable project Grow

Fashion for Good has started the talent project Grow, a three-month program that starts in July 2021, the organization reports in a press release. At the core of the program are innovative biomaterials, to depict the future of sustainable fashion. The pieces will be presented afterwards, in an exposition at the Fashion For Good museum in...

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Fashion for Good handbook: What are biomaterials and how can the fashion industry use them?

Organic, bio-based, biosynthetic - the terms for so-called biomaterials vary so greatly that not only clothing brands and retailers get confused, but also many consumers. That is why the global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good, together with the platform for biomaterials and their manufacturers, Biofabricate, has published a handbook...