What would the lack of images mean for the fashion industry? Would it collapse? These are some of the questions...
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Welcome to World 27, where people tell the stories of their garments instead of giving them a price-tag. In...
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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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Atlas of the Future and Fashion Fictions are looking for digital storytellers to create a simple game based on an...
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More than 70 international experts, with more than 50 ideas and projects to inspire change, will meet on 16–17 September...
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Marina Testino is an award-winning ARTivist who works at the intersection of fashion and advocacy. It’s well known that the...
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Fixing the Future Festival, held on 16 & 17 of September at CCCB (Barcelona), is an all-encompassing experience, with talks,...
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“You cannot respect something without loving it, and you cannot love something you do not know” Jon Kareaga is a...
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We recently dived head-first into the world of music visionary and climate activist Brian Eno. After an inspiring conversation about...
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Welcome to World 54, where the production of new textiles has been severely restricted, leading to the development of a...
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Welcome to the Mushroom World, an ecologically minded generation of thinkers who adopted mushrooms as their non-human spiritual guides. Once...
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Gender adviser for climate justice and resilience at Oxfam Intermón, Sandra Sotelo Reyes has always been interested in questioning the...
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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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We recently caught up with entrepreneur, eco-legend and all-round excellent chap Tim Smit. In a winding conversation (incl. digressions into...
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Tough Turban offers a solution to close the gap between religious freedom and safety for Canadian Sikh riders. In...
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Sitting comfortably? For the 1 billion people around the world who live with a disability, wearing standard clothing can mean...
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Daring conservationist, biologist and adventurer Sacha Dench, a.k.a the “human swan”, is saving migratory species one awe-inspiring expedition at a...
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Located on Canada’s Pacific Coast, an alliance of First Nations is working to protect the ecosystems of an area that...
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In Catalonia, the Associació Obrador Xisqueta creates awareness of a protected native breed while also promoting ethical fashion. Petite,...
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“I always tell kids the same thing: the future has not yet been written.” Javier Goyeneche believes that children are...
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How can we buy clothes that look great, fit well – and don’t harm the planet? Ecoalf has found one answer:...
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Farah Liz Pallaro knows from experience that a career in fashion and wellbeing often don’t go hand-in-hand. That’s why she...
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Nope, we’re not at church – but this anonymous congregation are here to worship all things creative. Working to a...
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The Fabricademy program is training a global community of transdisciplinary designers to propose new ways of making, designing, wiring and...
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‘Creative’ and ‘factory’: two words not often seen together. It’s time they were. About a Worker describes itself as...
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“If we don’t know what we’re saying to each other how can we move forward on a shared path?” Samata...
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Bel Jacobs and other fashion experts talk to students about the ways that fashion can be damaging to human wellbeing...
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Fashion has always set out to be bold and original. But real creativity comes from new, different, underrepresented voices. ...
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Being in the spotlight is a chance to get green, seen. The glamorous dresses and stylish suits that grace...
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Fashion Minority Report is a call for measurable change in the offices of fashion brands across the UK. What...
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Look down at your shirt. Have you ever considered where or how it got its colour? Unfortunately, dyeing is one...
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The algae-based bio-company Algaeing not only produces dyes, their patented technology allows for the creation of coloured fibers, changing the...
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Blackbirds are the inspiration for SauColors' vibrant blue dye made from waste berries – a possible sustainable alternative for colouring denim....
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TômTex uses shellfish waste to create a sustainable alternative to harmful leather practices. Designer Uyen Tran may have developed TômTex...
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Faber Futures is revolutionising colour with bacteria, using 500 times less water than traditional dyeing. Assemblage 002 is a reversible...
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How should I take care of my winter woollens? Who can finish knitting my cardigan? What’s the best way to...
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15 things that have given me joy as Editor of Atlas of the Future Yes, it’s officially time for me...
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Bold quotes, high end looks, and a top made out of radicchio. This is what the face of slow fashion...
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The combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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Justice, conservation, wilderness; soulful, ancestral, unconsumable – these are not words usually associated with the fashion industry. But The Lissome...
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Forget the ‘latest trend’. This fashion magazine is replacing newness with a different type of luxury: creativity, originality, and slowing...
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“Fashion is both a powerful art form and a way of communicating that is faster and arguably more powerful than...
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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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A new generation needs a new generation of media. Enter GUAP: a media platform that has earned its description...
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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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Despite artisan know-how stretching back to ancient times, independent clothes makers around the Mediterranean now struggle against powerful global brands...
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Two Mexicans have created an eco-friendly leather made from cactus to help save the environment. They want to reduce animal...
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What if we could rethink, reimagine, remake the world of fashion? Inequality, injustice, pollutants and waste – the fast...
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People have always found ways to use clothes to make a statement. What do yours say? Birdsong began life...
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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in the...
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Fashion can be a blueprint for other industries – one that’s regenerative rather than extractive, supporting life on Earth. ...
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Founded in 2015, French biotechnology start-up PILI Bio seeks to disrupt the unsustainable production of dyes in the textile industry...
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Some clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
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Fashion just got nerdy – and all the better for it. Post Carbon Lab are opening up the possibilities that...
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A picture paints a thousand words – but when it comes to fashion, there’s a lot more to say. Texture is...
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This Berlin-based circular economy startup converts your old clothes into something brand new – and even more stylish. Every...
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We may not give much thought to the insoles that line our shoes – but we use them every day....
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Recycling clothes is a complicated business. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – the threads, zippers and buttons...
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No, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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Colèchi’s mission includes working to dismantle bad practices, change mindsets and confronting sustainability and fashion’s relationship with the planet. ...
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WhyWeCraft creates immersive experiences for consumers, artisans and designers that take them closer to our cultural heritage of making. ...
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When does fashion look like magic? When the fibres it’s made from are created not from animals, plants or plastics...
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The problem of fast fashion is – by its nature – accelerating quickly. In the UK alone, people are purchasing five...
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Pathways for Promise, an initiative within the Asian University for Women, is providing free education to talented women from among Bangladeshi garment...
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This activewear helps clean the oceans, reduces waste and limits the number of pieces in our wardrobes – all while...
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Upcycling is a key part of a sustainable fashion future: but Denver-based Canned Goods like to go further. As well...
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Stephanie Benedetto has repurposed fabric in her blood. At the end of the 19th century, her great grandfather started...
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Spinnova claims to have created the most sustainable fibre in the world – no small claim! Taking inspiration from the...
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Every second, a garbage truck full of textiles goes to landfill – despite fabric having a significant water, carbon and chemical...
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Long-lasting, locally made, affordable classic designs: this isn’t just a beautiful idea, but the reality of Community Clothing. The...
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Is this the clothes shop of the future? Imagine walking into a space on your local high street, selecting a...
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Fibreshed are celebrating the regenerative possibilities of a fashion system that operates close to home, where the clothes we wear...
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Can mushrooms be the platform we build the future on? We’ve used mushrooms as food for thousands of years, but...
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Who says scraps are useless? Since 2016, the NGO FABSCRAP has recycled and resold more than 200 tons of textile waste...
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Swedish Stockings is the first and only sustainable stocking company that is closing the loop by converting its recycled nylon...
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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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For many of us, a hole in a much-loved jumper sees it drift to the back of the cupboard and...
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Shoes might not grow on trees – but this one grows itself. The Shoe That Grows has a clever design that...
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What if buying and selling clothes was illegal? How about a world where synthetic dyes were banned? Or doing laundry...
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Can bacteria generated from the kombucha drink industry be re-processed into a new, more sustainable, vegan, leather-like material? For ethical...
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The fashion industry is well known for its negative impact on the environment. Clothes make up a significant portion of...
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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Today we are launching the call for our new content channel, #FashionFutures. We’re asking for your help to hear about the...
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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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Upcycling broken fast fashion jewels and reducing waste within the fashion industry, specifically fashion jewellery. The ReJewel Collective, founded in...
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Earth Logic is a simple yet transformative call to the fashion sector: to put earth first, pledging loyalty to the...
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Are you helping to build a fair fashion sector?Are you a fashion-lover working on ways to reimagine how we produce what we...
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“Muhra in Arabic means 'foal', but also new beginnings. It represents what we do here." In a discreet five-story building...
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You can find rubber just about everywhere you look in modern society: tyres and protective clothing, household utensils and medical...
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The F.A.K.E. Movement is a platform where vegan and ethical designers can promote proudly their clothes and accessories. Created by Jonathan...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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