No one is perfect - you included.
Read our list of 6 of the most common CSR mistakes and see how many you've avoided.
Read More
The 'Organic Cotton Market Report 2021' by Textile Exchange, has one important message: demand for organic cotton has gone up.
Way up.
And they expect it to grow by 48 % by next year.
More and more brands, big and small, are realizing the benefits of organic cotton, and including them in their material strategies.
Read More
Are you mislabelling your products?
It is legally required for a manufacturer to list the fibre content of all garments. More often than not, this is paired with a care label.
In the EU, there are some rules you must follow in terms of fibre content labelling. We have gathered a selection of the most important below.
Read More
As fast fashion speeds up its production rate each year, with some online retailers launching a few thousand new styles per month, sustainability efforts of smaller fashion brands may seem to have little impact. Each year around 40 million tonnes of textile waste ends up on landfills or is incinerated. Wouldn’t it be amazing if instead it could just decompose and go back to nature?
Read More
Leather is one of the most controversial fabrics in fashion.
Animal welfare was one of the first aspects of sustainability to gain a lot of attention. And since it became general knowledge that cows and beef are big contributors to our joint Green House Gas emissions, the attention has only grown.
Many consumers and brands have decided to put a ban on leather and exclude it from their closets and collections. But what are the alternatives for leather?
And are they any better?
In this article we provide a review of pros and cons of leather and some of the faux leathers.
Read More
The reasons for getting certified in textile industry are many, and the same can be said for the number of different certifications. Some might suit your company better than other.
Read our overview of the most common certifications used in the fashion and lifestyle industry below.
Read More
If we are to succeed as an industry, we need a whole army of sustainability delegates placed in fashion companies all around the world. An in-house CSR expert would not only mean shorter lines of communication. It would also mean an easier and more natural integration of CSR and sustainability. When CSR is represented in a company through a trusted employee, it doesn’t just pop up once in a while when meeting with external consultants. CSR is now present in the day to day life, at the coffee machine, during lunch breaks, meetings and more. As such it oozes into a company’s culture and the unconscious level of employees’ workflows.
Read More
Regenerative agriculture, or farming as it is also called, has very quickly become a buzzword, especially in the fashion industry. Several outlets haves even dubbed it the future of fashion. But what is it, and how is it different from the agricultural practices we already know?
Read More
It is not going to make a huge difference to our world, if we are turning lousy T-shirts into organic lousy T-shirts. We would still be using natural resources, but only to produce something that can be worn – maybe 8 times and then it is twisted, peeling or simply torn.
Read More
But what I am also seeing is that this snowball is becoming an avalanche of requirements, paperwork, mapping, documentation, policies, certifications, that are simply just burying everyone. Requirements where it seems, that they do not know the reality of their supply chain. Requirements where it is actually an aspiration rather than an actual requirement.
I will explain further……
Read More