The fashion industry – a reflection of global events and movements In many ways, the global fashion industry is a reflection of key events and movements in our global society…
Obviously, there is still much room for improvements within the global fashion industry before we can call mainstream fashion anything close to sustainable and circular. Many large global brands are…
I am delighted to share with you that I will be speaking at the Giving Women Annual Conference 2018 on its overall theme ‘The Fashion Industry – Women’s Friend or Foe?‘…
Three important trends can be seen for the global fashion industry over the coming years. Firstly, fashion consumers are likely to grow increasingly tired of the mass-produced, fast-to-market and similar-looking…
The concept ‘conscious fashion’ has been around for quite some time now, possibly since Dr. Kate Fletcher coined the term ‘slow fashion’ in 2007. Over the last three years, we…
How can each of us find personal motivation to become more sustainable in relation to fashion? “Sustainable fashion” is quite a broad concept, covering many different forms of more sustainable…
Over the last year, “ultra-fast fashion” has become a popular term among actors working in the field of sustainable fashion. Essentially it means that fashion is designed and produced for…
Designer Marie-Louise Hellgren at work – an innovative design process driven by ethical and environmental values. Upcycling is part of the growing field of circular design, furniture and fashion. Sustainable…
Over the coming weeks, a new international sustainability and circularity framework for the fashion, apparel and textile industry will be released. The framework, entitled “The Circular Fashion Framework (CFF)”, is…
About three weeks ago, on November 23-24, a global conference on circularity, design and textiles, called Circular Transitions, took place in central London. The two-days’ event was the first global event…
Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought, as James Allen wrote in 1904 (Source). This insight has also been poetically formulated by Mahatma Gandhi: “Your beliefs become your thoughts,…
The Italian fashion brand Benetton recently launched their innovative seamless sweater. The sweater is produced using only one long single piece of yarn, which is enabled by a high-tech Japanese…
In an interview in The Guardian in early 2015, H&M’s CEO Karl-Johan Persson expressed that if we stop buying things that we do not need, it will lead to an…
The Circular Fashion website has just been launched. It is a “sister site” of www.greenstrategy.se and has been developed by Green Strategy to specifically address circularity issues related to fashion,…
This article was originally written for Make it last (June 23, 2015). Make it last: A century ago, the fashion industry aimed to produce quality goods that lasted a lifetime.…
This article was originally written for Make it last (June 1, 2015). Make it last: Circular fashion is quite a new concept in the context of sustainable fashion. How would…
This article was originially written for Make it last (April 10, 2015). Make it last: Fashion companies are beginning to explore new business models and customer services, such as rent…
This article was originally written for Make it last (March 13, 2015). Make it last: Today there is a lot of talk about developing “closed loops” for the fashion and…
This article was originally written for Make it last (February 27, 2015). Make it last: Fashion can be both about following new trends and finding your own personal style. How…
This article was originally written for Make it last (January 16, 2015) Make it last: “What predictions can you make for the fashion industry in terms of sustainability in the…
In mid-October this year, a new international network was launched, called the Circular Fashion Network (CFN). The network is an open professional network composed of individuals working professionally, or through…
This article was originally written for Make it last (December 15, 2014). Make it last: “In your opinion, what issues are often neglected in today’s debate on fashion and sustainability?” Anna Brismar: “One…
Vad betyder egentligen cirkulärt mode? Cirkulärt mode handlar om både “hållbara” och “cirkulära” strategier för modevärlden, dvs hur modebranschen kan bli mer hållbar, i traditionell mening men också utifrån ett…
Söndagen den 7 september hålls ett nytt modeevent i Stockholm, CIRCULAR FASHION – SHOW & TALK 2014, på temat mode, hållbarhet och cirkulär ekonomi. Ursprungligen skulle eventet ha genomförts lördagen den…
Hållbarhetsfrågor i modebranschen är mer aktuella än någonsin. Även begreppet cirkulär ekonomi är på stark frammarsch både i Sverige och internationellt. För att ge möjlighet till fördjupande samtal och inspirerande…
As expected at large conferences, all attendees of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit were given a goodie bag upon their arrival at the Opera house (on April 24, 2014). But, what…
Last week, I participated in the seminar “Sustainable innovation – A step into the future”, arranged by The Natural Step in Stockholm (March 6). The seminar brought together participants from…
The concepts “circular material flows”, “cradle-to-cradle” and “closed loop systems” are rapidly gaining grounds, since just a few years back. Not only environmental organizations, networks and research institutes, but also…