Sustainable Fashion

As fast fashion often leaves both the planet and our closets worse off, bamboo and hemp offer a refreshing alternative that is stylish, sustainable, and built to last. For those ready to invest in clothes that feel as good as they look this is one trend worth embracing for the long run

World’s first T-Rex leather handbags set to launch soon from fossil DNA

Researchers are using fossilised collagen from 80-million-year-old T-Rex remains. Synthetic DNA, designed by The Organoid Company, is integrated into Lab-Grown Leather’s Elemental-X™ stream.

Sustainable beauty and fashion: A conscious choice to minimise harm to the environment

Ethical fashion choices: Imagine a world where your clothes not only look good but also feel good for the planet. That's the idea behind sustainable fashion! Similarly, sustainable beauty is about looking good while doing good. It's about using products that are made with natural ingredients, don't harm animals, and minimise impact on the environment.

‘Digitising’ your wardrobe can help you save money and make sustainable fashion choices

Spring cleaning tips: Apps are helping people organize their clothes cupboards; with price, brand and type marked, to get more use out of the things they already own and buy what they are more likely to actually use in future.

Sustainable fashion: From slow fashion to zero waste, how desi designers are changing with the times

Designers at eight design labels - Ridhi Mehra, Pink City, Gulabo Jaipur, Vedika M, Summer Somewhere, Flirtatious, House of Fett, Aulerth - tell us which sustainable practices they're weaving into their businesses.

This startup is spinning yarn on solar charkhas, weaving fabric on solar looms and stitching clothes with solar sewing machines

Started in 2019 by NIFT Delhi graduate Abhishek Pathak, Greenwear has so far helped 3,500 women get trained in using solar spinning wheels.

From magazine vendor to running multi-million pound business: 44-year-old UK man’s story

Philip Waltham used to be a vendor for the The Big Issue magazine in London in 1997. Now he runs a clothing business worth millions of pounds.

Future of the fashion business

Water-based perfumes, pollution checks and feel-good shopping are some trends experts forecast

Birkenstock CEO Oliver Reichert: ‘The best way to be sustainable is not to consume as much’

Birkenstock CEO Oliver Reichert says the company would rather be honest about using materials like leather instead of ‘greenwashing’ – project an exaggerated image of sustainability.

Fashion Trends Are Often Recycled. Now More Clothing Can Be, Too.

From collaborating on the creation of biofibers to the manufacturing of environmentally friendly tag fasteners, some in the apparel sector are working with technology startups to clean up the world’s closets.