New year, new luck – in 2022, Fashion United will continue its monthly sustainability review. However, in a different form, because the good news is that in the last three years, since the beginning of the first regular review, a lot has changed – sustainability has finally risen from “nice to have” to “must have”; Companies are increasingly realizing that sustainability also makes economic sense.
For the format of the sustainability review, this means that a wide range of different measures is not presented every month as before, but more targeted, far-reaching measures are highlighted. Read through the lasting highlights of January 2022 and let us know how you like the new throwback.
Sustainable shoes
Sustainable shoes, is that possible? Preferably still vegan and/or compostable? Yes it works! FashionUnited has found five young, sustainable shoe brands from all over the world that show that fashion-conscious shoes can also have a light footprint and a social orientation. The labels Flamingos Life (Spain), Native Shoes (USA), Yatay (Italy), Nat-2 (Germany) and Nisolo (USA) show how it’s done. Worth supporting!
Textile processing: from wet to dry
Regular readers of our sustainability review know that the global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good will occupy a prominent place in many months to come. This is also the case in January 2022. This time it is about a new joint project called “D(r)ye Factory of the Future”, the aim of which is to accelerate the transition from wet to dry processing. There is no hurry, as textile processing is responsible for the highest greenhouse gas emissions and the largest water and chemical consumption in the fashion industry value chain. The project therefore combines several innovations in textile pretreatment and dyeing that have the potential to reduce emissions by up to 89 percent and water consumption by 83 to 95 percent. More please!
Also interesting:
The company Oeko-Tex, which specializes in sustainable solutions, has presented its new “Impact Calculator”, which can be used to measure and quantify CO2 emissions and water consumption in line with the climate goals of fashion companies.
Underwear can be recycled
In January, we were impressed by an initiative by the US lingerie brand Parade: they launched a free recycling program for underwear in cooperation with the leading international recycling company TerraCycle. Second Life by Parade is TerraCycle’s first nationwide laundry category recycling program designed to keep unwanted underwear out of landfills and help consumers reduce their carbon footprint. We think it’s awesome!
Also interesting:
Ambercycle, a Los Angeles-based clothing recycler, has announced a $21.6 million Series A funding round to help build a circular ecosystem in the fashion industry.
Efforts on the brand side
Last but not least, don’t miss the efforts on the brand side, such as in relation to more sustainable collections, such as from A for Allbirds to Z for Zara, or the Adidas for Prada Re-Nylon collection and Canada Goose’s most sustainable capsule collection to date. Companies like Ecoalf also improved their B Corp Score and Bergfreunde led the ranking of climate-conscious companies in Germany. We say congratulations!
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