2022 Woolmark Prize winners announced

Saul Nash and MMUSOMAXWELL win this year’s top fashion industry awards. Designer Saul Nash has been announced the winner of the 2022 International Woolmark Prize...

Collaboration takes competition from runway to rails

Hong Kong Designers’ REVIVAL collection for The R Collective demonstrates Redress’ decades-long work to educate fashion designers about sustainable design. Five alumni of the Redress Design...

Byborre Create to further disrupt textiles industry

Amsterdam Dutch textile innovation studio releases advanced software update with many new features. After two years of onboarding hundreds of brands and designers, textile innovation platform...

First transparent and traceable cotton supply chain

Research Triangle Park, NC, USA BASF’s e3 Sustainable Cotton program joins UN hosted Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network. Fashion and agriculture may seem like two industries...

Why wool matters

United Kingdom A short documentary produced with HRH The Prince of Wales for the Campaign for Wool. Against a background of misleading anti wool lobbying currently...

Summit explores material innovators’ scale-up journeys

Online  Review of the recently held Sustainable Alternative and Bio-Based Materials Digital Summit. Following on from last year’s Sustainable Alternative and Bio-Based Materials summit, which showcased...

Less bad is not good enough

Companies who fail to tackle climate change are “failing humanity” and heading to the “graveyard of dinosaurs”, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman warned in...

World’s first products made from 100% Infinna fibre

New York City Announcement signals the start of a multi-year agreement between Pangaia and Infinited Fiber Company. Material science innovator, Pangaia, and the circular fashion and...

Eurojersey introduces The Real Boost

Caronno Pertusella (VA), Italy New outstanding collection AW 2023 Activewear with Sensitive Fabrics powered by Lycra Sport Technology. The Real Boost, the new Activewear AW2023 collection...

Wonderful flat knitting combinations

Stoll's latest collection was successfully unveiled in Italy last month. Wonderful is the latest compilation of inspiring designer pieces from Stoll, showcasing the versatile forming...

Concrete action against textile waste in Europe arrives

Specific measures will include ecodesign requirements for textiles, clearer information, a Digital Product Passport and a mandatory EU extended producer responsibility scheme. As part of...

Accelerating Circularity updates USA trial status and partners

USA Accelerating Circularity, Inc. (ACP) embarked on trials in the USA in the fourth quarter of 2021 to demonstrate that spent textiles are too good...

Report finds industry-wide greenwashing

Sustainability certification schemes and voluntary initiatives serve as a smokescreen it is alleged. Certification schemes, labels and industry initiatives aimed at steering the fashion industry...

Woolmark Performance Challenge 2021/22 innovations and winners

Hong Kong Challenge encourages innovative thinking resulting in ground-breaking ideas whilst fostering the education and development of the next generation of game-changers. The Woolmark Company, On...

Prioritising traceable and carbon positive fibres in Vietnam

Vietnam Fashion Enterprise extends partnership with Fibretrace and Good Earth Cotton to advocate carbon positive and traceable solutions for textiles and fashion. Vietnam-based manufacturer, Fashion...

Filo puts the spotlight on fibres

Milan Milan show offers certain amount of optimism and a business-like agenda, despite gathering international uncertainties. Filo 57 Milan, February 23- 24 in the modern setting...

Eight new innovators promoted by Fashion for Good

Developing technologies that can scale with major brands. Amsterdam Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good is welcoming eight innovative companies into its 2022 Global Innovation Programme. They are: Dyerecycle...

Circular textile sourcing event returns to Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia RAW TO A T by RawAssembly, is a responsible, regenerative, and circular sourcing event for the fashion and textiles sectors. Designed to increase awareness...

Winners of Shima Seiki student competition announced

Castle Donnington, United Kingdom Shima Seiki Europe’s student competition awards two weeks industry specialist training to two knitwear students. Shima Seiki Europe has named the winners...

Women in Textiles Summit reconvenes

Braselton, GA, USA Women in textile industry reconvene at summit, leave enriched, energized, empowered. Enriching, empowering and energizing. These are just some of the attendee descriptions...