You can dream as big as you want, when it comes to sustainability, but if you don’t get your design team on board, your products are going to stay the same.
But how do you make your design team love sustainability as much as trends?
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?
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.
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.
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.