teenVOGUE – What Zara’s Sustainability Efforts Could Mean for the Fashion Industry
The pledge of using only sustainable fibers is one that is also potentially worth celebrating, but I haven’t yet seen in the press what that exactly means and what is counted as sustainable fiber,” Michael continues. “There are lots of debates around fiber and its carbon footprint and material demands. For example, for the better part of a quarter century, a lot of advocates for greening fashion have been promoting bio cotton [otherwise known as organic cotton]…but it’s also quite high in consumption of water. Water is very scarce, particularly in some of the countries that produce fabric cotton…so you really have to step back and look at it holistically.” Zara’s latest Edited collection includes recycled cotton and ecologically grown cotton, defined as being “grown using practices that help us protect biodiversity, such as crop rotation or the use of natural fertilizers.”
VOGUE – 5 ways to fix fashion’s biggest pollution problem
Clashing, two-tone, co-ord, block – wearing colour is fundamental to our self-expression. But with dyeing techniques contributing so heavily to the climate crisis, our love of colour is going to make the world a much duller place unless things change, fast. “We need to change the whole landscape of the industry,” says Michael Stanley-Jones, co-secretary of the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion. He’s one of eight experts sharing their insight with Vogue on what’s being done to tackle fashion’s dyeing art. Here are the five key problems, and some potential solutions.
EcoTextile News- Forests for Fashion comes to London
LONDON – PEFC, the sustainable forestry NGO will host an event on the 22 May at Techspace Shoreditch, London where delegates will hear from experts at Lenzing, Textile Exchange and others about the latest best available technology for producing textiles from wood and how to source these fibres in a more transparent way.
Also on the agenda will be PEFC’s ‘Forests for Fashion’ initiative and its partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion. Forest for Fashion aims to ‘link’ forest-based materials such as viscose and lyocell from sustainably managed forests with the world of fashion.
Guardian – UN highlights environmental cost of staying fashionable
Many experts, including the UN, believe the trend is responsible for a plethora of negative social, economic and environmental impacts and, with clothing production doubling between 2000 and 2014, it is crucially important to ensure that clothes are produced as ethically and sustainably as possible.In a bid to halt the fashion industry’s environmentally and socially destructive practices, and harness the catwalk as a driver to improve the world’s ecosystems, 10 different United Nations organizations established the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, launched during the 2019 UN Environment Assembly, which took place in Nairobi in March.
Help X-Ray Fashion Win Two Webby Awards: Vote Now!
X-Ray Fashion has been touring the globe in an effort to impact as many people as possible, and we are proud to announce that the VR installation has just been nominated for Webby awards in two distinct categories: Best Interaction Design and VR: Interactive, Game or Real-Time.
WWD – Heron Preston Visits Nairobi for United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion Launch
Invited by the Future of Fashion Now collective, the two-night trip marked the launch of the United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion. The U.N. Alliance for Sustainable Fashion is rooted in the urgency to better coordinate sustainable fashion efforts as they fit with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Future of Fashion Now collective arranged for Preston and the cadre of other young designers to fly to Nairobi, Kenya for panel discussions, tours of secondhand markets and safari excursions. The markets were packed with essentially “the effects of what happens to our stuff when we no longer want it.” Taking out his smartphone to illustrate that point, Preston reeled through photos of a room stacked to the rafters with compressed bales of secondhand clothes.
UN News – UN launches drive to highlight environmental cost of staying fashionable
When we think of industries that are having a harmful effect on the environment, manufacturing, energy, transport and even food production might come to mind. But the fashion industry is considered by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), to be the second most polluting industry in the world.
BURO – UN Fashion Alliance
Good morning from Nairobi where I have been invited to speak at the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Fashion Alliance. For the first time, UN organisations who s work relates to fashion are coming together to bring one UN voice to fashion. We want to turn fashion into a driver of implementation for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Business Standard – UN alliance to halt environmentally destructive fashion practices
The UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, launched at the UN Environment Assembly on Thursday, is seeking to halt the environmentally and socially destructive practices of fashion, and instead harness the industry as a driver for improving the world’s ecosystems.
Fashion Network – A Nairobi, les Nations Unies initient leur Alliance pour une mode soutenable
Le secteur génère quelque 2 400 milliards d’euros d’activité et emploie environ 75 millions de personnes dans le monde. Selon les chiffres distillés, il est à l’origine de 20 % des eaux usées dans le monde et participe au rejet de plus de 500 000 tonnes de microfibres de plastique dans les océans chaque année. Ses activités cumulées produiraient entre 8 % et 10 % de l’ensemble des émissions carbone sur la planète.
C’est pour agir que les différentes instances rattachées aux Nations Unies*, avec le soutien d’organismes comme la Sustainable apparel coalition, qui réunit nombre de marques, ont créé ce jeudi l’« Alliance for Sustainable Fashion ».