BRANDE – Ahead of Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW), which gets underway from August 9th, Danish retailer Bestseller has announced that it will showcase garments produced by designers across its brand portfolio, who’ve partaken in an internal circular…
COPENHAGEN – The organisers of Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW) have forged a five-year partnership with Circulose, the fibre brand of Renewcell, which will assist with the launch of a new Talent Support Scheme for burgeoning designers and innovators.…
MILAN - The Ellen Macarthur Foundation has partnered with Italian non-profit organisation, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI), to launch a new set of awards aimed at bringing circular design for fashion to the top of the Italian fashion…
MALMÖ – Sustainability initiative Better Cotton has announced details of its first in-person global conference since the start of the pandemic, which will take place in Malmö, Sweden, from 22-23 June. Under the theme ‘Cotton and Climate Action’, the…
PARIS - This year's Challenge the Fabric (CTF) event, which aims to improve and connect the supply chain of man-made cellulosic fibres (MMCF), is to be staged later this month. CTF 2022, which will focus on sustainability, transparency and material…
DHAKA – Government ministers, as well as representatives from the European Union and United Nations, will join leading fashion brands and manufacturers at this year’s Sustainable Apparel Forum (SAF), which gets underway in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from…
TORONTO - Canada’s premier forum for advancing sustainability in the fashion industry, the World Ethical Apparel Roundtable (WEAR), is to take on a new format this year and will be held as two separate one-day events on 10 May and 6 October 2022.…
FRANKFURT – International events organiser Messe Frankfurt has announced that it is suspending all of its events in Russia following the country's invasion of Ukraine. The decision puts a question mark over events such as the Techtextil Russia…
COPENHAGEN - The Copenhagen Fashion Summit is being rebranded as the Global Fashion Summit and is due to return in physical form this summer after being staged online for the last two years because of the pandemic. The new name reflects both the…
Hybrid cotton, global sustainability measures, and support for regenerative farming were all hot topics on day three of the ongoing 79th International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) Plenary. Simon Ferrigno reports.
Climate change, organic cotton integrity, textile label flood, the EU Product Footprint tool and supply chain due diligence were all on the agenda at yesterday’s second session of the International Cotton Advisory Council plenary meeting. Simon…
Plans for a new ‘African cotton sustainability programme 2030’ that could increase cotton production by 2 million tonnes a year and deliver significant financial and environmental benefits to farmers – in a ‘genes to jeans’ approach – have been…
DUBLIN – On the opening day of Textile Exchange’s (TE) Textile Sustainability Conference, the organisation has announced the winners of the inaugural Ryan Young Climate+ Awards. Representatives of environmental organisation Fibershed, printwear…
DUBLIN – The Ecotextile News editorial team has arrived in Dublin for Textile Exchange’s annual global conference where we are among the exhibitors and look forward to welcoming visitors to our booth. Editor John Mowbray, assistant editor Chris…
COPENHAGEN - Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s digital edition of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit (CFS+) on 7th and 8th October which will carry the theme of ‘Prosperity vs Growth’. Participants will experience an exclusive hybrid of…
MUNICH – The team behind the Performance Days trade fair has cancelled its May showcase over lingering travel concerns related to COVID-19. Organisers say the ongoing pandemic makes it “difficult or even impossible for many manufacturers and trade…
BREMEN - Around 500 participants from 25 countries are expected to attend the 35th International Cotton Conference Bremen - the first in the history of the event to be held online. Visitors to the virtual conference, to be held on the 17th and 18th…
BRISTOL – Instead of using a 3-day online Fibre Fragmentation Summit to create a cross-industry impact roadmap to address textile microfibre release, The Microfiber Consortium (TMC) will now use a series of focused online round table sessions and…
LONDON – The biennial Sustainable Innovation conference is to be held online next month for the first time when it will host expert speakers on issues around sustainability and fashion. Sustainable Innovation 2021: Accelerating Sustainability in…
BREMEN - Ecotextile News cotton expert Simon Ferrigno will lead a panel discussion on circularity at the 35th International Cotton Conference in Bremen in March. Entitled ‘Circular Economy - The Future’, the two-hour discussion will take place…
SINGAPORE – The world’s largest textile machinery and garment technology showcase, ITMA, will return from 8-14 June 2023, with the theme ‘Transforming the World of Textiles’. The quadrennial event, commonly referred to as the ‘Olympics’ of the…
MILAN - The second Milano Green Forum - which was this year held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic - is still available online until December 20. The event, held on 20th November, aims to increase environmental awareness and share…
UK – As the global apparel industry starts to get to grips with its contribution to pollution related to textile microfibre shedding, the first confirmed speakers for the debut Fibre Fragmentation Summit have been announced. Senior research…
TAIPEI – The organisers of this year’s TITAS trade show, which took place in Taiwan’s capital of Taipei, have reported that the event proved a success despite the multitude of COVID-19 restrictions which are affecting countries around the world,…
MUNICH – The team behind Performance Days has cancelled this year’s December showcase over lingering coronavirus concerns, and will instead host the event digitally. From 9-10th December, exhibitors and visitors are therefore invited to virtually…
COPENHAGEN – Ahead of next week’s virtual Copenhagen Fashion Summit (CFS+), workers’ rights organisation Remake has called for greater representation of those in fashion supply chain’s in the conference’s programme. “Organisers boast that this…
MUNICH – At this year’s Performance Days trade show in Munich, scheduled to go ahead from 9-10 December, a theme of ‘Nothing to Waste – Closing the Loop’ will address the industry’s gargantuan waste issue, with expert talks and exhibits set to…
MUNICH – The organisers of Munich Fabric Start say their Fabric Days trade show has been a success, having attracted more than 3,600 visitors from 30 countries for the first post-lockdown industry event. Held from 1-3 September, Fabric Days was…
PARIS – As the French government bans public gatherings of over 5,000 people due to a recent increase in cases of the virus that causes COVID-19, international textile trade fair Première Vision has been forced to cancel its physical show at Paris…
MUNICH – From next Tuesday, the organisers of Munich Fabric Start will welcome back exhibitors for the first textile trade show to be held in several months, with a revised format which it’s calling Fabric Days. Having U-turned on an earlier…
NEW DELHI – The organisers of Lakme Fashion Week in India have announced plans to host a sustainable fashion boot camp for one day of the upcoming event, which will connect six aspiring start-ups with industry experts. Through the Circular…
UK – As the global apparel industry starts to get to grips with its contribution to pollution related to textile fibre fragmentation, the Microfibre Consortium will hold an online edition of its Fibre Fragmentation Summit between March 23 - 26th,…
WAKEFIELD – Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in our editorial newsroom? If so, why not have a listen to the first two episodes of our new series of Ecotextile Talks podcasts available on Apple, Google, Spotify and Deezer. Like…
NEW YORK - The Transformers Foundation is set to host its first-ever summit as a non-profit organisation after splitting off from the Kingpins denim trade shows. Entitled Catalysts, the digital event will focus on actively addressing and…
MUNICH – The organisers of Munich Fabric Start and Bluezone have U-turned on optimistic plans to host the show in its original format on September 1, opting to cancel the event this year “due to several reasons related to the pandemic." “This hard…
MUNICH – The organisers of Munich Fabric Start and Bluezone say it’s been their “personal mission” to host the first textile trade fair post COVID-19, as they set the stage for a return on September 1st. Over recent months, we’ve seen textile trade…
FRANKFURT - Germany's main fashion week is moving from Berlin to Frankfurt next year in a surprise switch with the new event having sustainability and digitalisation as its two overarching themes. Tradeshow organisers Messe Frankfurt and Premium…
LONDON - Fashion Revolution is to stage a digital version of its annual Fashion Question Time event because of the current measures in place to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Entitled 'Mass consumption: The end of an era', this year's…
LISBON - The 2020 Global Cotton Sustainability Conference - which was due to be held in Lisbon in June - has been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), which organises the event, has decided the conference…
MUNICH – The organiser of the Performance Days trade show has cancelled its April showcase in Munich, due to concerns over the spread of coronavirus. Despite no stipulations from the German authorities forcing the event to be called off, the team…
AMSTERDAM – Denim trade fair Kingpins has cancelled its Amsterdam event, which was set to take place 22-23 April, due to escalating cases of the coronavirus around the world, particularly within Europe. Its Hong Kong showcase was cancelled last…
SAN FRANCISCO – The Sustainable Apparel Collation (SAC) has announced a raft of Higg Index manufacturing forums ahead of its 2020 Global Member Meeting, which is scheduled to be held in Bangkok 16-18 June. First up is the Higg Index Manufacturer…
HONG KONG - The Kingpins denim trade fair scheduled for Hong Kong in May has been cancelled because of global health concerns over the coronavirus epidemic. Kingpins organisers said they had decided to call off the event, which had been due to take…
SHANGHAI - Messe Frankfurt’s three Shanghai textile fairs which were due to take place in March have been postponed until later in the year because of the coronavirus outbreak. The events - Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics Spring Edition, Yarn…
BERLIN - The Neonyt 'sustainable' fashion and textile trade show is preparing for its first event at its new home at Berlin’s former Tempelhof Airport. Leading brands, retailers and other industry players will attend the show which will be staged in…
LONDON - Organisers of the Ninth Future Fabrics Expo, due to be held in January, have revealed the line-up of speakers for the seminar programme which runs alongside the show. The Sustainable Angle said the speakers would be made up of "outstanding…
BARCELONA – Impact investor Tanvi Karambelkar, of the newly-launched Good Fashion Fund, and Abhishek Bansal, of Arvind - a vertical manufacturer based in India, discuss some of the challenges of funding the technological innovations needed to make…
VANCOUVER – Planet Textiles will team up with Textile Exchange in Vancouver next week to bring delegates a unique panel discussion on the science behind textile microfibre pollution, why it matters – and what the textile industry should be doing…
BARCELONA – Though research continues to shed new light on the problem of textile microfibres in our oceans, Sophie Mather, board chair of the Microfibre Consortium, questions whether the proliferation of other micro-particles is muddy the waters of…
DHAKA – The second edition of the upcoming Sustainable Apparel Forum in Bangladesh is offering the chance for new textile technology companies and solutions providers to promote their innovations free of charge at the event. Event organiser Mostafiz…
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