SUSTAINABLE
REPREVE Spins Into Eco Partnerships With Family Culture, Corporate Sense
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | June 27, 2024
Sustainable yarn maker REPREVE has been making strides in sustainability since its 2007 founding in Greensboro, N.C. Its recent news was the release of a list of 37 brand partners that includes San Francisco–based Rothy’s, named to its annual Champions of Sustainability awards.
Refreshed Styles, Sustainability at the Center of Edwin USA’s S/S 2024 Collection
In its Spring/Summer 2024 collection, Edwin USA celebrates its nearly 80-year heritage by combining style with sustainability. Its strategy? Reworking products, dropping smaller capsules, and relying on the classics.
IKEA–Nigel Xavier Earth Month Collaboration Promotes Eco
Earth Month 2024 might be finished, but IKEA’s April Open House in Los Angeles enlisted sustainability experts from different fields, including designer Nigel Xavier, to illustrate how to apply eco-friendly initiatives every day.
Growing Sustainability Trends in Swim Continue to Shift the Category
California Apparel News asked swim-industry experts: From eco-friendly initiatives to body positivity, what aspects of sustainability resonate most with your customers for 2024 into 2025?
Creativity for Good
With an increasing number of consumers expecting brands to be facilitators in consuming while doing better for the environment, what appeared as forward a couple of years ago now is a prerequisite.
Classic Elements Lead Trends to Support Sustainable Manufacturing
California Apparel News asked leaders in fiber, yarn and fabrics: What trend in textiles do you feel will define this year as consumers seek change in many areas of their lives, including fashion and apparel?
Environmental Damage in the Details: Why Is Fashion Missing the Eco Mark?
California Apparel News asked sustainability experts in the fashion industry: What is the most overlooked or underrated component of sustainability that brands, manufacturers and suppliers must prioritize to move the fashion industry forward toward a more sustainable industry?
Hyosung to Reveal Latest Sustainable Developments at Kingpins NYC
Denim may be one of fashion’s oldest fabrics, but it is as susceptible to change as everything else.
Remake Receives $50K Fashion Impact Fund Grant to Support Ethical Mission
Responsible-fashion advocacy organization Remake has received a $50,000 grant from the Fashion Impact Fund to raise awareness regarding the challenges faced by garment makers.
Fashion Techworks Revives the Iconic Comic Strip Mac Divot
After debuting at the recent Los Angeles Art Hearts Fashion, Mac Divot, the iconic comic strip that ran for 22 years in some 200 papers nationwide, was revived by Tom Keefer and Cindy Ingraham-Keefer into a new line. Combining unique intellectual property with sustainable apparel manufacturing, it mixes retro with modern.
EDC Report Demands BRI Accountability for Neglecting Suppliers
Responsible, ethical sourcing messaging has been part of the cornerstone within sustainable marketing for many years...
Citizens of Humanity x Billy Reid Collab Reimagines the Classics
Southern California meets just plain Southern in a new collaboration between L.A.’s Citizens of Humanity and Alabama-based, four-time CFDA award winner Billy Reid.
Los Angeles–based Frank & Eileen Takes Home 2023 MAFI Award
In 2009, Audrey McLoghlin first sourced responsibly crafted Italian menswear fabrics with the idea of reinventing the women’s button-front shirt, an apparel item previously devoted almost entirely to men...
The Other Side of Apparel Sustainability— Ethics in Worker Treatment
What are the most pressing labor and worker issues that must be addressed to improve sustainability within the apparel industry?
Lycra Releases New Update on Achieving Goals for 2030
“Global” is increasingly becoming not just an economic or political term but also an all-encompassing earthly caretaking term. In other words, global means doing good for our orbiting globe, from the individual to the corporate.
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