Second-hand clothing has been making a comeback, as consumers become more conscious of sustainability. Jack Yan asks: what is fashion’s next role? […]
Fashion’s future purpose, heading back into the Zeitgeist
January 29, 2024/10.37
Tag: sustainable fashion
The world on their feet: one family’s journey inspired by wool slippers
July 5, 2023/5.58
Ethical and sustainable slippers from Baabuk are now available at Goodness, as the label celebrates its 10th anniversary […]
Protest shows spring–summer ’22 as it advances its sustainability goals
April 21, 2022/11.30
Dutch brand Protest has been promoting its green credentials lately, with its Green Up initiative. The company says it has divided its journey to sustainability into achievable milestones, with new fabrics and a greater proportion of its range made from recycled fabrics this season. Protest has increased its use of recycled polyester, made from […]
Good hosts New Zealand Fashion Week’s first sustainable style show
August 17, 2018/12.29
Jyoti Morningstar’s We-ar is among the labels at Good’s Sustainable Style Show at New Zealand Fashion Week. Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. As Lucire published the first international sustainable style editorial in the 2000s, it’s our pleasure to note that our friends at Good magazine will present its Sustainable Style Show at […]
Why we should be thankful for Stella McCartney
November 29, 2017/2.09
Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. In October, Fast Company profiled Stella McCartney in a piece that found its way to me not via Lucire, but via Medinge Group, the international think-tank on humanistic branding. Wearing that hat, we’ve long advocated corporate social responsibility, and McCartney has been “living the brand” for a […]
Five ideas reshaping the fashion industry: H&M Foundation invites public to vote on the best
March 28, 2017/10.51
H&M Foundation invites the public to vote on the best ideas that can help revolutionize the fashion industry toward a sustainable, waste-free future. Initiated in 2015, the competition is now on to its second round, with €1 million up for grabs between five winners. The vote, at globalchangeaward.com, closes on April 2. The public […]
Kicking off London, New Zealand fashion weeks
September 21, 2010/23.32
As we begin putting up more catwalk images of London Fashion Week taken by the talented Doug Rimington, fashion editor Sopheak Seng has been snapping a few casual ones from New Zealand Fashion Week. (Janet Liu’s photographs from this event will be filed afterwards.) Starfish opened New Zealand Fashion Week with an ethical-fashion show, […]
København innovates with sustainable fashion
December 6, 2009/12.21
As the first fashion industry partner of the United Nations Environment Programme since 2003, it always delights us to see the next generation of designers focus on sustainable fashion and corporate social responsibility. On December 2, the Danish fashion industry showed its Innovating Sustainable Fashion collections, with Karin Eggert Hansen, a student at the Danish […]
