Innovation
Our focus is on early-stage innovation and empowering changemakers, supporting the development of their ideas, and fostering the growth of solutions that contribute to decarbonization of the textile industry.
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New report on innovative material proves the potential of a sustainable fashion future
The circular economy of the future starts with the material innovators of today. With support from H&M Foundation, Fashion Positive has just released its first Emerging Material Innovators Report, highlighting…
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Let us present the Early Bird Winner of 2018
Worn-out and damaged clothes are often just thrown away, instead of being repaired. This leads to enormous amounts of textile waste. What if your t-shirt or jacket instead could repair…
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Mobile phone app provides safety to migrant children
In 2015 alone, more than 10,000 unaccompanied children went missing on the move through Europe and thousands more have continued to go missing since. Records shows that up to 50%…
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Innovations creating a waste-free fashion industry awarded
From food crops, smart stitches and 3D-modelled clothes, to advanced recycling processes and biodegradable clothes with health benefits. On March 20, five innovations that can help speed up the shift…
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Fashion Positive Launches Innovators Hub to Accelerate Circular Materials Development
With support from the H&M Foundation the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute’s Fashion Positive Initiative has launched the Innovators Hub, a resource center for the growing circular fashion movement.
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What if we could reinvent fashion?
What if we could make a shift from “take-make-waste” to a fashion world where there is no more waste? What materials would we use? What would the process and business…
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H&M Foundation launches third annual Global Change Award
The annual Global Change Award, initiated by the non-profit H&M Foundation, aims to protect our planet and living conditions by accelerating the shift from a linear to a circular fashion…
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Technological breakthrough: new method for recycling blend textiles into new fibres
The four-year innovative partnership between the non-profit H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) finds groundbreaking solutions to recycle blend textiles into new fabrics…
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Five innovators awarded for ideas that help create a circular fashion industry
The public have cast their votes. On April 5, at a ceremony in Stockholm City Hall, the five winners of H&M Foundation’s innovation challenge Global Change Award were awarded. The…