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Gap brands are committed to sourcing 100% sustainable cotton within the next six years, the apparel group announced in a press release. The flagship Gap brand committed to 100% sustainable cotton by 2021, Old Navy by 2022 and Banana Republic by 2023.

Gap's standard for what is sustainable includes cotton grown by methods approved by the Better Cotton Initiative, organic, recycled and verified American and Australian-grown cotton.

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The R Collective is a clothing brand using some of the industry’s highest quality materials, but with a difference: it rescues excess materials from world-leading luxury designers, and upcycles them to create something entirely new.

British entrepreneur Christina Dean founded the company in 2017, inspired by a charity she founded in 2007 called Redress, which works to reduce fashion waste and promote a circular fashion industry.

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Fruit and vegetables are good for us. We all know that. But what if our clothes counted towards our five a day? Would that make the planet healthier, too? We are told the one thing we can do to reduce our carbon emissions is to eat less beef, so the next step would be to wear less leather. We also know that cotton production is water-intensive and polluting. So the next generation of textiles made from apple peel, grape pulp, oranges and pineapples is here not a moment too soon. Never mind eat more greens. What we really need is to wear them.

Related Keywords: fabrics, fashion, garment, India, sustainability, Textile

Ever wondered who cut, dyed or stitched your designer dress? Now, a few ethical brands are giving those nameless ‘karigar credit, and a share of the social media spotlight.

Laxmiben Karamta, a pattern cutter who hails from the Rabari tribe, is not your usual fashion model. But just check out Gujarati handcrafted label Okhai’s Instagram page, and you can see a cheerful Laxmiben clad in a red lehenga and black blouse posing in front of a mirror work mud wall, cutting fabric patterns or posing in a pair of sunglasses.

Related Keywords: apparel, clothes, fashion, fashion industry, global data, Nuuly, renting, research, sustainability, Urban Outfitters

The sharing economy is now making its way into the fashion industry as Urban Outfitters looks to rent clothes to younger fashionistas.

The retailer is launching an online subscription service allowing people to borrow six items to wear for a month before swapping them.

The firm says that in terms of clothing, millennials in particular want variety and sustainability.

The womenswear service, called Nuuly, will launch in the US this summer.

Related Keywords: clothes, environment, fashion, fashion industry, future, recycling, rental, sustainability, Textile

Global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good, in collaboration with global professional service provider Accenture Strategy, has launched a new report today that for the first time explores the financial viability of circular business models in the fashion industry.

Related Keywords: apparels, bees, clothes, cotton, Ethopia, fabrics, farming, Garments, India, sustainability, Textile, TRAID

Leigh McAlea, Head of Communications, from the UK charity, TRAID talks about growing cotton without pesticides in Ethiopia, which has also revived the local bee population and had a positive knock-on-effect for the farmers.

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A new research report has found sustainability progress in the fashion industry has slowed by a third in the past year.

The Pulse of The Fashion Industry report, created by Global fashion Agenda, Boston Consulting Group and Sustainable Apparel Coalition, reveals that the latest Pulse Score rose four points to 42 (out of 100), compared with an increase of six points in 2018.

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It may be quite some time until the fast-fashion industry completely slows down, but with new trends being set in motion, there is now hope that 'slow fashion' is a trend gathering traction.

The demand for 'cool', affordable clothing is hard to keep up with, with clothes being delivered in bulk into highstreet shops to try and match retail expectations. But more often than not, they come with a high environmental price tag in the long term; the fashion industry is the second biggest polluter in the world, only second to oil.

Related Keywords: apparels, fashion, fashion ware, fast fashion, footware, life cycle, planet footware, recycling, sustainability, Textile

The apparel and footwear industries together account for more than 8 percent of global climate impact, greater than all international airline flights and maritime shipping trips combined.

The challenge to reduce carbon emissions offers the fashion industry an opportunity for its players do what they do best -- be creative.

Eco-friendly fashion pioneers from Stella McCartney to Rent the Runway to the RealReal are creating new reuse and resale models of doing business.