Elvis & Kresse: Waste Saviours To Be Reckoned With
Farm trips make for a perfect outing. You get to see where your food comes from and it also offers visitors the chance to connect with the farmers. I foresee a future where the equivalent, within the fashion industry, could take shape,...
5 Questions About E-Textiles That You’ve Been Wanting to Ask
It was back in 2016 when FashNerd.com managing editor Mano ten Napel had the pleasure of getting to know Madison Maxey over a cup coffee in Amsterdam. The Brooklyn based smart fabric engineer had flown to The Netherlands to speak about intelligent...
7 Ethical Fashion Tech-Infused Activewear Brands Worth Saving Your Pennies For
From eco-friendly activewear to ethical fashion fabrics made of bamboo, it is becoming easier for many of us to embrace our inner green goddess, thanks to advanced fashion technology in the material design space.
Innovation is The Name...
Orange Fiber x H&M Conscious Exclusive, Reinventing Fashion in a Greener Way
We are super excited to share that Orange Fiber, one of the startups that we partnered up with for our Wardrobe of the Future project, has been included in H&M’s collections: Conscious Exclusive.
MFS’s KEYHOUSE Combining Progressive Fashion Technology With Sustainable Innovations
This season's Munich Fabric Start's (MFS) KEYHOUSE focal theme has been Sustainable Innovations and LOVE. Espousing the synergy of fashion and technology, the tradeshow stated: "The seasonal heading for upcoming spring.summer edition 2020 puts the topic of LOVE centerstage as a buzzword...
V&A’s Fashioned From Nature, Driving The Sustainability Dialogue
In 2018, the UK had a lot going for itself in the realm of sustainable fashion. This included the Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum’s first ever exhibition about sustainability. Titled, ‘Fashioned From Nature’ the museum of art and design addressed the subject...
PrimaLoft Bio, the First Synthetic Insulation Made from 100% Recycled Biodegradable Fibres
PrimaLoft, Inc., a global leader in advanced material technology solutions, has introduced PrimaLoft® Bio. It is the first synthetic insulation made from 100% recycled, biodegradable fibres that use proprietary technology to enable a highly accelerated rate of biodegradation.
The idea was born in 2014 when...
This Season’s Must-Have Is Mylo, A Beautiful, Sustainably-made Vegan Tote By Bolt Threads
At the end of last month Bolt Threads, a materials innovation company known for using proprietary technology and revolutionary bioengineering concepts to create better materials launched its first commercially available product - The Bolt Projects Mylo™ Driver Bag.
We have been big fans of Bolt Threads...
Vollebak On Pushing Graphene Tech And Building Clothes That No-one Will
The existence of Graphene was first theorised in the 1940s, but it wasn’t until 2004 when two maverick scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, were able to isolate and test it. As technology continues to advance, Graphene textile technology is emerging as the new...
Circular Systems, A Clean-tech New Materials Company Making Waves In Sustainability
For the last couple of years, it seems like there is always something new and exciting happening in the material space. Right now innovators are finding different ways to transform and make use of food byproducts, like Orange Fiber. Last week we had the pleasure of...