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Related Keywords: clothes, dresses, dyes, environmental commitment, fabric, felting technique, Garments, old clothes, stockpiled material, tops, women apparel

Eileen Fisher's New York factory is Marie Kondo's worst nightmare: Filled with bags and bags of old clothes, it houses the over 1.3 million garments the brand has collected since launching its take-back program in 2009. These old designs aren't being hoarded for posterity's sake, though. If all goes to plan, one day they'll all be reused instead of sent off to a landfill.

How Eileen Fisher is using old clothes in a new way.

Related Keywords: apparel, clothing retailer, environmental cost, fabric, fast fashion, future of fashion, Garments, growth, head of sustainability, organic cotton, polluting industries, Recycle, second-hand market, supply chains, Vintage garments

H&M will trial sales of second-hand and vintage clothes as it seeks to tap into consumers' growing concerns about the environmental cost of fast fashion, its head of sustainability said on Friday.

Anna Gedda told Reuters H&M would launch a pilot in Sweden for online sales of second-hand garments on the site of its & Other Stories brand, with the aim of extending the scheme to other markets and brands in years to come.

Related Keywords: Autumn Winter 2018 collection, blankets, fabric, Garments, Textiles, twisted yarn, weave, womenswear, wool, woven, yarns

Woven in 100 per cent New Zealand wool in Scandinavia, the blankets are made using twisted yarns that give them blankets a unique multicolour effect – which the brand likens to the effect of looking through a kaleidoscope.

"To weave the blankets we used two yarns with the same thickness but in the different colours," said ZigZagZurich. It explained that, "The yarns are twisted together and then woven. The beauty that comes out of this artistic choice is a kaleidoscopic game of colours and the creation, at the same time, of a pattern which cannot be controlled.”

Related Keywords: apparel/sportswear market, fabric, Moov&Cool, polymer technology, Textile finishing innovator

Devan says the company was inspired by a mechanism of plants when they started developing Moov&Cool. Dr Vanessa Daelman, Business Unit Manager Performance at Devan says, “Plants also use small pore-like openings (stomata) on the bottom of their leaves which open and close depending on the environment they are exposed to,” Also, “It allows them to manage the water reservoir in the leaves and hence their thermoregulation.”

Related Keywords: fabric, Fashion of Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Textile and Apparel Artificial Intelligence, textile manufacturers, textile manufacturing, weaving process

Textile manufacturers at present depend on human efforts to randomly examine the fabric by naked eyes. Due to human factors such as carelessness or physical exhaustion, defect detection by human labour is usually uncertain and unreliable. Textile manufacturers also made an effort to use some other fabric inspection systems, but those systems were not able to meet the industry needs. Safeguarding quality in the fabric production becomes a great challenge to the industry.

Related Keywords: cotton, denim fabric production, dyeing and finishing, fabric, fibres, indigo fabrics producer, iSAVER, Itema, Itema technologies, Itema weaving machine model, ITMA Asia + CITME 2018 exhibition, Lyocell, main denim producers, Prosperity Textile, raw materials procurement and processing, raw materials saving, Sustans, Tencel, textile supply chain, textiles exhibitions, weaving production, weaving solutions, whole denim production chain, yarns

A new important partnership marks the path of Itema towards a greener future for the whole denim production chain. Prosperity Textile, one of the main denim producers worldwide, has chosen for its new facility one of the most interesting and sustainable-oriented Itema technologies, iSAVER™ equipped on the Itema.

Related Keywords: Chinese textile industry, fabric, garment finishing, Jeanologia, jeans, sustainable product

Jeanologia, global leader in technology for the textile industry, will present for the press at ITMA Shanghai their technological solutions, ranging from fabric to garment finishing, with the aim of helping Chinese textile industry to put an end to pollution and satisfy market needs, adapting to the latest regulations.

The meeting will take place next Tuesday (October 16th), from 14:00 to 15:30h, at Jeanologia’s stand: H5 B09.

Related Keywords: anti-mite bedding items, bed linen, Evolon, fabric, feather-filled pillows and quilts, first fabric for anti-mite encasings, Oeko-Tex mark

Ten years ago in 2008, the original version of Evolon had already been the first fabric for anti-mite encasings worldwide to be ECARF-accredited. Evolon New Generation has also been granted the Oeko-Tex mark (standard 100, product class 1, attachment 6), which certifies it is free of harmful substances and suitable for contact with baby skin.

Evolon New Generation is made from super-microfilaments that are half the thickness and twice the density of those used in the original Evolon. This increases its filtration performance significantly.

Related Keywords: apparel industry, Assyst, clothing industry, Color Digital, Digital Textile Connection, Epson, fabric, Garments, Munich Fabric Start, X-Rite Pantone and Peter Buedel Accessoires

Vidya is becoming more and more realistic -3D is a key technology in the apparel industry to drive the digitization of companies. And digital products can be integrated into advance process steps. At the Munich Fabric Start, Assyst is going to demonstrate how the 3D simulation software Vidya can be used for the development of a fashion collection and beyond. Dr.

Related Keywords: cotton, fabric, foam-dyed jeans, indigo dye to raw denim, Spanish fabric mill, supply chain, Wrangler

The first line of foam-dyed jeans will be Wrangler’s most current action to lessen that environmental impact and save precious resources. Among the brand’s demonstrated sustainability activities are the ongoing work in U.S. sustainable cotton and a commitment to reduce water usage by five billion liters by 2020. According to Royo, applying indigo dye to raw denim with foam instead of water will eliminate the need for the tens of millions of gallons of water typically consumed by conventional wet-dye systems.