Tag: manufacturing

• Rapanui’s Teemill revolutionises fast fashion with circular T-shirts

  

  The world’s dwindling resources, including cotton often sourced in questionable circumstances, are used to manufacture millions of T-shirts, many of which will quickly end up in landfill. Now there’s another way. An award-winning UK-based online software platform is using modern technologies like AI to make circular fashion stylish and open source.

• Is the tide turning against fast fashion ?

  

  If the sight of racks and racks of cheap, sparkly dresses failed to put you in the party mood this festive season, you’re not alone. UK shoppers spent about £3.5bn on clothing for the 2018 party season, some on garments costing less than a G&T.

• How clothing manufacturers are adapting to slow fashion and a circular economy

  

  There’s a growing understanding among the most prominent brands that the traditional linear business model, based as it is on constant consumption of natural resources and sales driven by built-in obsolescence, is not sustainable.