Caroline Chao and the Roll-Up Chair
G-Star RAW denim gets a second life I remember the first time I saw denim used outside of fashion. It was the early 1990’s, on a patchwork sofa in a studio in Shoreditch, stitched together from old jeans and jackets, each seam carrying a memory of a night out, a...
New research on how manufacturing choices influence microfibre release in textiles
The recent research from the University of Leeds’ School of Design highlights how manufacturing choices, such as yarn spinning techniques and fibre compositions, can significantly influence microfibre release during laundering. For UK-based textile manufacturers...
International Day of Zero Waste 2025
30th March 2025, UN’s day of ZERO WASTE You’ve heard it before, every second, a truckload of discarded clothing ends up in landfills or is incinerated. The fashion industry has a problem. It produces too much, wastes too much, and pollutes too much. In 15...
Fashion’s Land Footprint—Why What We Wear Matters
As a child two generations from farmers, the land isn’t an abstract idea for me, it’s woven into who I am. I understand, in a way that only experience can teach, that the soil we walk on today feeds tomorrow. But what happens when the fashion industry, a juggernaut of...