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bayou with love loungewear

Nikki Reed Releases Bayou With Love Loungewear

Socially conscious jewelry brand Bayou With Love by Nikki Reed is launching a sustainable loungewear collection, made with love in Los Angeles. Officially launched in 2017, the label now offers...
recycled cotton fabric home textile

The Truth About Recycled Cotton Fabrics

About 20,000 liters of water are needed to produce one kilogram of cotton, the equivalent of one T-shirt, and one pair of jeans, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)....
recycled cotton fabric home textile
only ethical sustainable fashion

Only Ethikal Makes The Most Powerful Fashion Choice

E-commerce platform Only Ethikal is leading sustainable fashion in the United Arab Emirates. It offers sustainable, meaningful, modern, and ethically made fashion for conscious minds. Launched at the beginning of...
dacron polyester fabric sailcloth material

All You Need To Know About Dacron Polyester Fabric

Dacron is a polyester brand name by DuPont, an American fiber manufacturer who first introduced this fabric in 1950 and began making it in large quantities in 1953 at its...
dacron polyester fabric sailcloth material
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KTN Event: How To Make Fashion Sustainable

The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is organizing an event on how to make fashion sustainable in October 2020. The event aims to discuss current work towards sustainable fashion within a...
frugi recycled polyester clothing

Frugi Launched New Sustainable Essentials For Children

Organic clothing retailer Frugi is launching a new range of sustainable essentials for children. They are made of recycled polyester, manufactured from post-consumer plastic waste such as PET bottles. The...
frugi recycled polyester clothing
non woven polypropylene fabric mask

The Truth About Polypropylene Fabric

Polypropylene fabric is a synthetic textile used in many industrial applications, as well as in the upholstery and apparel industries. It's also known as PP or polypropene and can be...
econyl nylon fabric swimwear

The Truth About Econyl Fabric By Aquafil

Econyl is a regenerated nylon fabric first produced by Italian textile manufacturer Aquafil in 2011. It's an innovative material that encourages sustainability in the global textile and apparel industry. Econyl...
econyl nylon fabric swimwear
repreve recycled polyester swimwear

The Truth About Repreve Polyester by Unifi

Repreve is a recycled polyester brand name by Unifi, an American fiber manufacturer founded by George Allen Mebane IV in 1971. Repreve polyester fabric is widely used in the textile...
Tiempo De Zafra textile waste hat

Tiempo De Zafra Creates Beautiful Hats From Waste

Tiempo De Zafra is a fashion brand that creates custom on-demand designs from excess textile waste since 2018. This is an idea from Edgar Alejandro Garrido who aims to raise...
Tiempo De Zafra textile waste hat
polyamide fabric clothing

The Truth About Polyamide Fabric

Polyamide fabric is a synthetic textile made of petroleum-based plastic polymers. It's a very versatile material used in many different applications today, including clothing fabrics in the fashion industry. Polyamide...
nylon polyamide swimwear fabric

What You Need to Know About Nylon

Nylon is one of the world's most versatile and useful synthetic material. It's a petroleum-based plastic polymer widely used to make fibers and textile fabrics in the fashion industry. Since...
nylon polyamide swimwear fabric
Winner Virgil Abloh Fashion Prize

The Amazing Winner of Virgil Abloh Fashion Prize

Rising designer Danielle Elsener won a USD 59,000 grand prize from Virgil Abloh and Evian. It's part of a new sustainability grant announced during New York Fashion Week. Virgil Abloh...
worst fabric environment

The Disastrous 10 Worst Fabrics For The Environment

The fashion industry is the second-largest polluter globally. Most of the pollution it creates comes from fabric production. Many textiles used for clothing have a disastrous impact and are the...
worst fabric environment
women denim jean

The Amazing Denim Jean Revolution By Fraunhofer IAP

Conventional denim manufacturing is one of the most polluting processes in today's global fashion industry. A group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam,...
q-nova recycled nylon leggings

Q-NOVA The Most Innovative Recycled Nylon by Fulgar

Many new and innovative fabrics promote sustainability in the global textile and apparel industry. Q-NOVA regenerated polyamide is one of them and represents Italian excellence. Q-NOVA is an environmentally friendly...
q-nova recycled nylon leggings
rs sustainable fashion

The 10 Wonderful Rs of Sustainable Fashion

Getting into sustainable fashion can be quite challenging. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and have no idea where to start when you are trying to live sustainably. The 10 simple...
oave sportswear

How O'ave Makes Epic Eco Sportswear in Germany

O'ave is the latest sustainable sportswear brand from Germany. It creates environmentally friendly activewear from ocean waste. Its founders Sören Romboy and Pia Steffens believe in exercise, in a healthy...
oave sportswear
expensive fashion

8 Big Reasons Why Sustainable Fashion is Expensive

Why isn't sustainable fashion more affordable? Eco-friendly and socially responsible fashion usually cost more than fast fashion. Conscious and ethical apparel is more expensive for good reasons. Sustainable fashion doesn't...
clothing lasting

6 Fantastic Clothing Materials That Easily Last The Longest

Looking for durable clothing materials is one of the best ways to encourage sustainable fashion. Strong, durable, and high-quality fabrics allow consumers to wear clothes for a long time. A...
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How P.E. Nation Is Pioneering Ethically-Sourced Luxury Activewear

How P.E. Nation Is Pioneering Ethically-Sourced Luxury Activewear

P.E. Nation announced a new collaboration with Australian luxury apparel brand Rebecca Vallance. The label creates sports luxe athleisure and activewear for urban life, lived at fast-pace, designed to perform...
nike recycled canvas

How Nike Latest Viral Sneakers Push Toward Zero Waste

American multinational corporation Nike is continuing to push toward zero carbon and zero waste in an attempt to protect the future of sports. Its latest viral sneakers, the Nike Sportswear...
nike recycled canvas
epoque evolution

Époque Evolution Creates Versatile, Sustainable & Minimalist Clothing

Époque Evolution is a relatively new fashion brand that creates classic, stylish, minimalist, and sustainable clothes for women. Its clothing pieces are versatile and cover a large range of products....
bioplastic clothes

Are Bioplastics Biodegradable

Whether you are looking for more sustainable fabrics for your wardrobe or an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based plastics, bioplastics or bio-based plastics are an amazing option. Also known as...
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apnee swimwear

Apnée Swimwear Launches Swim Trunks Made of Ocean Trash

The sustainable swimwear brand Apnée is launching its first complete collection made of ocean trash, including recycled swimshorts produced in Portugal. Two passionate French divers founded the Apnée swimwear brand...