In a mission to boost the use of write-up-purchaser fibers in textiles, TEXAID is launching a white tote bag designed of 50{05995459f63506108ab777298873a64e11d6b9d8e449f5580a59254103ec4a63} publish-client textile squander and 50{05995459f63506108ab777298873a64e11d6b9d8e449f5580a59254103ec4a63} ocean-bound plastic waste. The bag is to be launched in Winter 2022 and bought in TEXAID’s second-hand stores beneath the Title “Vintage Revivals” […]
Fashion And Textiles
Sustainable Fashion: A Better Alternative for Life
Sustainability has turn into a important concern as an option to quick vogue. Numerous media reports have centred on the destructive results of quick fashion on the setting. In Ghana, for occasion, most landfill disasters include tons of undesired outfits delivered into the region for sale. Quick fashion describes cheap, […]
The Complex Fashion History of Colonial Spanish America
“Virgen de los Sastres [Virgin with Tailors]” (c. 1750), Cusco, Peru, oil and gold on canvas, 57 1/2 x 40 3/8 inches (Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art, all images courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art) Early images of the peoples of the Americas produced […]
Alexander McQueen NGV exhibition reveals the art, technical craft and vision of fashion star
Where the fashion cosmos is dominated by names with the longevity of comets — from Coco Chanel and Christian Dior to Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood — Alexander McQueen was more of a shooting star, his career cut short by his suicide in 2010, aged 40. If you or anyone […]
Advancing life cycle sustainability of textiles through technological innovations
Alberghini, M. et al. Sustainable polyethylene fabrics with engineered moisture transport for passive cooling. Nat. Sustain. 4, 715–724 (2021). Article Google Scholar Singh, R. P., Mishra, S. & Das, A. P. Synthetic microfibers: pollution toxicity and remediation. Chemosphere https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127199 (2020). Borrelle, S. B. et al. Why we need an international […]
Gazing at the textile, clothing and footwear industry’s future
This is an excerpt from “Made with Bluesign — Enabling a Better Future.” It is published here with permission. What sustainability progress has the textile, clothing and footwear industry made in the past 20 years? What should the industry be doing right now? What should the industry prioritize for the […]