"Sustainable Fashion" News Archive

Following the recommendations of Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the success of the brand’s “Borrow” program, the French firm has taken its resale initiative stateside.

ISEAL Alliance, the global membership association for sustainability standards, launched its new “Challenge the Label” campaign at the 2015 Sustainable Brands Conference in San Diego last week, unveiling a tool that aims to drive credibility and understanding in sustainability claims.

The Nordic Ministers for the Environment are taking steps to make fashion and textiles created in the region the most sustainable in the world.

American labels, such as Maiyet, are revolutionizing the luxury fashion industry when it comes to environmental awareness and social change. The eco-fashion company has just secured $25.5m from investors, taking the brand forward in 2015.

In a world where demanding consumers want everything faster, the term fast fashion has taken on a less than desirable connotation: big conglomerates using unfair labor practices to sell inexpensive, poorly made product.

American consumers spent an average of $1,604 on apparel and related services in 2013, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Factor in that clothing prices in the U.S. have largely decreased since the ’90s and that was a lot of frivolous consumption.

Weaving the natural strength of the Tibetan Plateau with the artisanal traditions of Italy, mYak is a leading yak-fiber textile maker who - not only offers quality fabrics, but also adds value to the local indigenous communities where it finds its unique resource.

Pharrell Williams has launched the third instalment of his 'Raw For The Oceans' collection - a men's and women's fashion line made in conjunction with G-Star, using recycled plastic sourced from the ocean.

Eco-warriors aren’t the only people passionate about recycling plastic bottles into fabric.

Debera Johnson, executive director for Pratt’s Center for Sustainable Design Studies, first came up with the idea for a design accelerator when a young Pratt alumna, an accessories designer, told her, “I can’t afford success.”