Redesigning Fashion's Future
This system promotes reusing materials and recycling products to keep them in use for longer.
What is the circular economy?
These services can fix clothes that are torn or damaged, making them wearable again.
What is clothing repair?
These tiny fibers are shed by synthetic clothing when washed, polluting oceans and waterways.
What are microfibers?
Most textiles from the current fashion system end up in these two places after being discarded.
What are landfills and incinerators?
This type of input replaces fossil fuels with bio-based materials and uses regenerative agricultural practices.
What are renewable inputs?
This is when companies make their production process more open, so customers can see how their clothes are made.
What is supply chain transparency?
This type of label on clothes helps users know how to properly care for them, like washing instructions or how to store them.
What is a care label?
This material, often found in sportswear, is a major source of microfibers when washed.
What is polyester?
Creating demand for these would help promote the use of recycled fibers in fashion.
What are recycled fibers?
Shared standards, investment, and this type of support are essential for scaling sustainable change in fashion.
What is policy support?
This business model allows you to borrow clothes instead of buying them, so you can wear them without owning them.
What is clothing rental?
This method of caring for clothes reduces the need for frequent washing and drying, which helps preserve the garment’s lifespan.
What is air drying?
Microfibers from synthetic clothes can pollute water systems and contribute to this global issue.
What is plastic pollution?
To improve clothing recycling, the fashion industry needs to design garments with this in mind, focusing on easier disassembly and reuse.
What is end-of-life design?
This practice helps reduce the environmental impact of farming by regenerating soil health and enhancing biodiversity.
What is regenerative agriculture?
This acronym stands for a global initiative focused on eliminating hazardous chemicals from the textile and apparel supply chain.
What is ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals)?
This is a key reason many brands and repair services push for clothes to be well-maintained, as it can help increase the perceived value of garments over time.
What is clothing longevity?
This country is the largest user of pesticides for cotton farming, accounting for 50% of global cotton pesticide use.
What is India?
This type of material design could significantly improve recycling by making clothes easier to recycle through the use of a single material.
What are mono-materials?
This is essential to scaling the transition to sustainability, including providing financial backing and incentives for innovation.
What is investment?
This organization is a collaboration of brands, retailers, and suppliers working to advance sustainable chemical management practices across the fashion industry.
What is AFIRM (Apparel and Footwear International RSL Management)?
This concept includes how clothing satisfies practical, emotional, and social needs.
What are complex motivations for clothing?
This amount of non-renewable resources is used annually in the fashion industry.
What is 98 million tonnes?
In 2015, 97% of materials used in fashion were these types of resources, while less than 1% were recycled into new clothing.
What are virgin resources?
Achieving a circular textile system requires collaboration between these four groups.
Who are brands, governments, recyclers, and consumers?