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H&M Group and Ikea join to study recycled materials

The H&M Group and furniture giant Ikea have joined together to conduct a large-scale study of recycled textiles, as the companies announced at the 2019 Textile Exchange Sustainability Conference. The two companies are currently reviewing chemical content in post-consumer textile recycling in a study that has been underway since May 2018. H&M has...

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Vitra launches collaboration with Virgil Abloh

Swiss furniture company Vitra, famous for manufacturing the works of renowned designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton and Jean Prouvé, is soon to launch a collaboration with Virgil Abloh. Best known for his luxury streetwear label Off-White, Abloh also serves as Creative Director of Menswear for Louis Vuitton. Vitra took to...

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Zandra Rhodes to launch homeware with Ikea

Swedish homeware giant Ikea has announced that it is launching a collection of homeware products with British designer Zandra Rhodes that will be an exploration of “pattern and colour” as it looks to see what happens when colourful fashion prints are put into the home context. Rhodes, known for her colourful and bold textile prints, will...

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Stora Enso joins H&M and Ikea in TreeToTextile project

Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso has joined The H&m Group, Inter Ikea Group and SunPine founder Lars Stigsson in their joint venture TreeToTextile AB. The project aims to develop new textile fibres from renewable forest raw materials, at attractive costs. All four partners have an equally big stake in the company. Stora Enso has...

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Ikea-linked investment company buys stake in H&M

Two Swedish giants are growing closer: Interogo Holding AC, an investment company linked to Ikea, has bought a 190 million US dollar stake in Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), according to news agency Bloomberg. Interogo didn’t previously own any shares in the fast fashion company. The acquisition of the 0.6 percent stake follows rumors that H&M’s...

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Off-White x Ikea: pop-up store pulls rugs out from under customers

Parisians do not exactly have a reputation as impulsive early risers who like to queue up to buy a rug. But that is exactly what happened on Saturday morning when hundreds of people crowded into a pop-up store on Quai d'Austerlitz to buy one of four models of rugs, designed by none other than Off-White’s Virgil Abloh for Swedish furniture giant...