Our Winners
Meet our heroes – the winners of the Global Change Award – and find out how their innovations are reinventing the fashion and textile industry.
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2025IndiaA Blunt Story
Most soles are made from plastic. UNCRUDE® by A Blunt Story swaps that out for plant-based and recycled materials – building shoes from agricultural waste while supporting farmers and reducing microplastic pollution from the ground up.
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2016NetherlandsAlgae Fabrics
What if the answer to some of fashion’s most pressing issues lies just below the surface of the ocean? Algae Fabrics extracts cellulose from seaweed and immerses it in a liquid, creating a regenerative textile that needs no land — and obviously no watering.
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2018IsraelAlgaeing
Algaeing transforms seaweed into bio-fibre and eco-friendly dye. And it gets better — the product releases antioxidants and vitamins that benefit the skin.
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2023United KingdomAlgreen
The foam in our shoes, the coating on our coats, the invisible seams on our gym clothes include polyurethane, a resilient petrochemical causing microplastics pollution. Algreen is a biobased alternative creating adhesives, foams and coatings made with regenerative technology reducing plastic pollution.
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2023CanadaALT TEX
Using three steps, ALT TEX transforms food waste and makes it wearable. The novel solution ferments waste into polymers, melts polymers into yarn, and spins yarn into an industrially biodegradable polyester.
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2016United StatesAmbercycle
What’s gone, isn’t gone forever. Ambercycle brings end-of-life textiles back to life, unlocking new life cycles for materials through a molecular regeneration process. The innovation separates components in textiles and creates pure raw materials for brands and manufacturers.
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2022SwedenBIORESTORE
A laundry solution that removes pilling and restores shape and colour to worn-out garments. The solution’s perfect mix of enzymes and minerals react with water and fibres, launching a bio-chemical process that renews clothes in one wash.
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2025United KingdomBrilliant Dyes
Dyeing is one of fashion’s most polluting stages. Brilliant Dyes uses phycocyanin from cyanobacteria to create biodegradable pigments through low-energy extraction. A colourful solution for a cleaner future.
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2018United StatesCircular Systems
Banana trees, pineapple leaves, rice straws, sugar cane stalks and seed oil from hemp and flax. These food byproducts are often seen as waste and left to rot. Circular Systems’ innovation transforms leftovers into bio-textiles in a cost competitive and scalable way.
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2019Germanycircular.fashion
With state-of-the-art digital tools, circular.fashion is moving the textile industry towards circularity. It enables manufacturers to champion circular textiles. Makes it easy for designers to choose sustainable techniques. And gives consumers a product passport showing an item’s planetary impact.
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2025GermanyCircularFabrics
Blended textiles are notoriously hard to recycle. CircularFabrics tackles that with NYLOOP® – a technology that captures high-quality nylon from complex textile waste without breaking it down. The result? A strong, circular fibre ready for reuse.
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2017AustraliaDeakin University
Jeans are fashion’s most iconic style. But giving the wardrobe staple their signature blue pigment is one of the industry’s most water-consuming processes. Deakin University has a developed a solution that makes it possible to use used denim to dye new denim.
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