Manufacturing & Retail

The manufacturing and retail stage aims to reduce textile waste accumulation and over production, to optimise efficiency in the cut, make and trim of a garment through digital solutions and on-demand production, and to extend the life of products and packaging through circular business models. This supply chain step aims to reduce the overall waste to landfill at a factory, retail and consumer level.

Projects

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    Unpacking the Packaging Problem: Solutions and Strategies

    Unpacking the Packaging Problem: Solutions and Strategies

    Back in 2019, Fashion for Good dove into the world of packaging and did an extensive exercise of mapping plastic waste flows through the fashion supply chain. Through this work, we identified three key intervention levers: reduce plastic through process innovation, close loop on existing plastics and decouple from fossil fuels. Read below the insight from our five multi-stakeholder reports and projects aimed at addressing two of these three levers.
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    The Home Compostable Polybag Project

    Fashion for Good initiated the Home Compostable Polybag Project to explore alternatives to conventional plastic polybags. In collaboration with innovators TIPA Corp. and Greenhope, along with partners C&A and Levi Strauss & Co., the initiative focused on researching, assessing, and validating bio-based, home-compostable options. The project’s goal was to determine the feasibility of these alternatives and achieve key objectives in reducing plastic waste in the fashion industry.
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    VAT Tax Impact on Resale in the UK

    As part of a global effort to clamp down on tax evaders, the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed new rules to request information from digital platforms like Vinted or eBay to report the income sellers are getting through their site routinely. While the ultimate objective of these rules is to combat tax evasion, there is a potential unintended consequence on the circular economy.
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    In Conversation with Trove: The Innovator Powering the Resale Ecosystem For Brands

    The Fashion for Good team interviewed Andy Ruben, Founder and Executive Chairman of Trove, to learn more about the innovator’s story, technology, challenges and successes and showcase innovations that are driving tangible change in the industry and leading the path to scale.
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    Meet the Innovator: Trove

    Trove offers a service allowing brands to take control of their resale marketplaces through a white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping.
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    What are circular business models?

    Circular business models (CBM) are a way of conducting business that focuses on sustainability through minimising waste, reusing resources, and effectively creating a closed-loop system that is beneficial to people and the environment.
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    Fashion for Good launches the home-compostable polybag project

    Fashion for Good launches the Home-Compostable Polybag Project, a pilot to test alternatives to conventional single-use polybags,

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    Fashion for Good Launches the Home-Compostable Polybag Project

    Today, Fashion for Good launches the Home-Compostable Polybag Project, a pilot to test alternatives to conventional single-use polybags.

    traceless

    Traceless creates bio-based films and coats that are home compostable, do not compete with food production and are qualitatively a real alternative to conventional plastic – 100% biodegradable and compostable. 

    PoshaQ

    PoshaQ is a computer vision AI startup focused on helping consumers discover and purchase products within the fashion and retail sector. They provide retail and warehouse automation, data intelligence and cataloging, as well as quality control with image processing.

    RESPONSIBLE

    RESPONSIBLE is a global circularity platform powered by advanced proprietary technology. The company is on a mission to scale circularity by offering solutions across the product life cycle and a premium take on reCommerce. 

    PreSize

    PreSize is a 3D body scanning company that produces size and fit recommendations to consumers. By integrating the solution into a brand’s webshop or app, presize enables fashion eCommerce shops to reduce their return rate and increase their conversion rate by reducing sizing uncertainty to give emissions and waste savings.

    Lizee

    Lizee has developed a reuse management system, enabling any brand or retailer to launch, manage and scale their rental and second hand offer in just a couple of weeks through management of eCommerce and logistics flows through algorithmic processing of data. This contributes towards a circular society by facilitating the rent and redistribution of consumer goods, ultimately reducing demand for virgin materials. 

    RE-NT

    RE-NT offers plug-and-play solution for brands to launch a rental service via their online platform giving consumers access to latest fashion which they can rent and brands still engaging with their audience without having to deal with operations and logistics. Overall this reduces demand for virgin materils through sharing economy.

    Smartex

     Smartex is an engineered solution to help textile manufacturers improve production yields and reduce waste. It uses a combination of IoT sensors and AI/machine learning software for the real-time inspection and detection of defects in fabric production before they damage a fabric roll, thus reducing waste in production processes. 

    The Fabricant

    The Fabricant is a digital fashion house which specialises in photo-real 3D fashion design and animation which can be used in digital fashion editorials, digital clothing and occasional collections. Production and use of such digital garments significantly reduces CO2 emissions, nd use of digital samples during design and development phases reduces brand’s carbon footprint. 

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    Fashion for Good predictions for 2025

    2025 Forecast: 6 Major Shifts On Our Radar

    2025 marks a turning point for the fashion industry, where innovation and sustainability are more crucial than ever. From addressing the intricate challenges of circular footwear design to redefining the resilience of global supply chains, the industry faces both immense tasks and transformative opportunities. Below, we delve into six pivotal shifts shaping fashion’s future in 2025, highlighting the solutions, partnerships, and technologies steering us toward a more sustainable and inclusive path forward.
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    The Future of Fashion Tech: Types of Innovations in the Fashion Industry

    In the evolving landscape of sustainable fashion, different types of innovators play distinct roles in advancing industry transformation. Understanding these roles helps in identifying how each contributes to sustainable practices.
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    The Future of Fashion Tech: The Innovation Lifecycle in Fashion Tech

    The journey of fashion technology from idea to market involves a complex process known as the “innovation lifecycle”. This lifecycle is crucial for transforming cutting-edge concepts into viable, market-ready products that can revolutionise the fashion industry.
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    The Future of Fashion Tech: Hard Tech vs. Soft Tech in Fashion Innovation

    Hard tech and soft tech play complementary roles in driving sustainable transformation within the fashion industry. Hard tech, with its capital-intensive and longer development cycles, enables fundamental shifts like recycling and advanced manufacturing, while soft tech offers scalable digital solutions that deliver quicker efficiency and transparency gains. Balancing investments in both is essential to achieve systemic change and circularity.