Protest Sportswear releases fourth Green Up challenge: cleaning up Costa Rica
Protest Sportswear is walking the talk with two surfers—Alazne Aurrekoetxea and Laura Coviella—heading to Costa Rica to help clean up the shores as part of their Green Up the Ocean project. They helped with the efforts to collect single-use bottles, and tied them together with some bamboo and turned them into a “green” board. […]
Institute of Positive Fashion Forum aims to make real change for sustainable development
The Institute of Positive Fashion Forum will take place digitally on June 10, and runs from 9 a.m. to a final event with Stella McCartney commencing at 6.10 p.m. The thought leadership event is designed to galvanize the fashion industry—one of the planet’s major contributors to environmental harm—into action, ahead of COP26. Tickets […]
Nomos Glashütte scores product design win at Green Good Design Awards
The Chicago Athenæum’s Good Design Awards have honoured Germany’s Nomos Glashütte six times for its watches, and now the Green Good Design Awards, which focus on sustainably produced products, have highlighted the company once more for its Tangente Update watch in its product design category. Its latest incarnation, the Tangente Neomatik 41 Update, features […]
Monokel Eyewear introduces biodegradable sunglasses
Stockholm archipelago-based Monokel Eyewear has always made sunglasses that last, but its latest collection ensures that they do—only up to a point. Its spring–summer 2021 collection, anchored on the Edvard Munch quotation, ‘From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity,’ is fully bio-based and biodegradable, with […]
Salvatore Ferragamo releases F-80 Skeleton Sustainable watch commemorating Earth Day
To mark Earth Day 2021 on April 22, Salvatore Ferragamo will release a limited-edition version of one of its watches, but made with low-environmental-impact materials and responsible packaging. The F-80 Skeleton Sustainable will be limited to 200 pieces. Its strap is made of post-consumer-recycled PET fibre on the outside and FSC-certified cork on the […]
Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor models Self-Portrait’s autumn–winter 2021–2 collection
Nigel Shafran/Self-Portrait Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor is the face of Self-Portrait’s autumn–winter 2021–2 collection, photographed by Nigel Shafran. Given the UK’s difficulties with COVID-19, Self-Portrait forged on with showing its key looks with a more down-to-earth campaign, rather than a traditional fashion show, opting to photograph at Dynevor’s home in London. The aim was to […]
Freya Rose shows jewellery edit for Valentine’s Day
In our pages, Freya Rose is known more for shoes than for jewellery, although she grew up in the jewellery industry—her mother is Barbara Tipple, the four-time de Beers award-winning jewellery designer, whose work is exhibited at the V&A. For Valentine’s Day, she has a jewellery collection of occasion and bridal items at the […]
British Fashion Council announces the Fashion Awards 2020, with Beijing, Shanghai screenings
With the UK continuing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Awards (formerly the British Fashion Awards) announced its 20 winners with a digital film première. The 30-minute film went live at www.fashionawards.com today and on YouTube on the BFC’s account, and was screened in selected cities, including Beijing and […]
H&M’s new Conscious Exclusive collection to feature Eastman Naia Renew cellulosic fibre
Lucire is the first fashion partner of UN Environment. One of fabrics used by H&M’s Conscious Exclusive autumn–winter 2020–1 collection, being released December 1, is Eastman Naia Renew cellulosic fibre. Naia Renew is made from 60 per cent certified wood fibres and 40 per cent recycled waste plastics, including carpet fibres and plastic packaging—traditionally […]
Paul & Shark turns seconds into unique retail items, saving them from destruction
Lucire is the first fashion partner of UN Environment. Italian luxury sportswear label Paul & Shark is doing its bit to curb waste from the fashion production process: the garments that fail its quality control aren’t scrapped, but, instead, repaired by hand and turning them into unique pieces, then sold as limited-edition clothing. Its […]
