Leather: Pioneering models for a circular and creative sector
This edition focuses on concrete and pioneering initiatives that show how leather can be part of a circular and creative approach.
Exploring the challenges of leather: materials, impacts and industry changes
As part of our series of meetings, the Circular Creation working group of the Circular Fashion Federation continues its exploration of natural materials and local sourcing. After discussing cotton, linen, hemp, and wool, this fourth meeting focuses on a material as precious as it is controversial: leather.
Prospects for the wool industry in France
As part of our series of meetings, the Creation working group of the Circular Fashion Federation continues its explorations around natural materials and local supplies. After having covered European cotton, then linen and hemp, this third watch focuses on French wool.
Prospects for the Flax and Hemp sector in Europe
@PWNEW SHARE Focus on European linen and hemp As part of our series of meetings, the Creation working group of the Fédération de la Mode Circulaire continues its explorations around natural materials and local sourcing. After an initial focus on European cotton, our second meeting focused on linen and […]
Natural raw materials: what are the prospects for local supplies?
@PWNEW SHARE European cotton focus As part of a series of meetings, the Creation working group of the Circular Fashion Federation opened the debate on local sourcing of natural materials. The first meeting, devoted to European cotton, raised several essential questions: How to support sustainable production […]
How does upcycling work?
Upcycling is the action of recovering materials or products that are no longer used to transform them into products of a higher quality. Indeed, the textile industry is responsible for 20% of the pollution of the planet's waters. It is considered the 2nd most polluting industry after petrochemicals. It is more urgent than ever to ensure the preservation of natural resources within the textile circuit. This also involves this "top-down" recovery that is upcycling: this "over-recycling" process allows previously used clothes to be restored and made fashionable to make them exceptional pieces, with a unique creative process.
Fashion Tech and circular fashion: the impossible reconciliation?
SHARE The constant challenge of innovation in fashion has been at the origin of the rise of new technologies, which have spread particularly in the luxury sector. Called “Fashion Tech”, to illustrate the symbiosis between trends and technologies, this movement offers real challenges for the sector and for circular fashion, and could well […]
How to improve textile recycling?
Recycling is a process of transforming textiles (and shoes) into new products, rags, geotextiles, fibers or composite plastics. While currently 57,8% of collected clothing is resold in second-hand stores, in France or abroad, 23,4% of our clothing is recycled, through a process of cutting, defibering, fraying or crushing. Zoom in on this practice and the challenges it creates for the textile industry.
Origin and principles of circular fashion
“The Future of Fashion Is Circular,” wrote Emily Farra on Vogue.com in December 2019. The term circular fashion is not new: in spring 2014, Anne Brismar, owner of a Swedish consulting firm, used it when planning a fashion show in Stockholm. But what does circular fashion actually mean today? Between slow fashion, sustainable fashion, ethical fashion, circular fashion, eco-responsible fashion, how do you find your way?
