Learnings & Insights
We regularly post valuable learnings and insightful perspectives across various topics.
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Textile Futures 2040: four possible futures for the textile industry
Together with Forum for the Future, we are launching Textile Futures 2040, four scenarios that help industry leaders test today’s decisions against different possible futures. An open toolkit lets any…
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Designing circularity for inclusion and scale
At Textile Exchange 2026 in Vancouver, conversations repeatedly came back to one challenge: how do we move from ambition to implementation? Our takeaway is that the answer lies in who…
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Why the future of cotton might not need a field
A project between the Spanish hydroponic-farming company Magtech and H&M Group’s Circular Innovation Lab is testing a different way to grow cotton: without soil and in a closed loop of…
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GCA Impact story: How Resortecs is scaling textile recycling
With more than one million garments already produced using dissolvable thread, Resortecs is showing what design for disassembly can look like in practice. The company’s technology addresses one of textile…
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Raising capital: lessons from three founders scaling circular innovation
Raising capital is often described as a numbers game. For textile innovators, it can mean speaking to more than 100 investors before finding the right partner. We asked three former…
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Why promising textile solutions still struggle to scale
Over the past eight years, The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) and H&M Foundation have supported innovation in the textile industry. Together, more than 30 research…
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What shaped our thinking at Global Fashion Summit – and what we brought back
At this year’s Global Fashion Summit, much of the conversation centred on how to decarbonise a complex global industry. But beneath the technical discussions sits a more fundamental question: who…
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GCA Impact story: How Ponda is restoring ecosystems at scale
When Ponda won the Global Change Award in 2022, they set out to prove that a supply chain could restore ecosystems rather than exhaust them. Three years on, they’ve raised…
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Three insights reshaping climate communication
Research shows that awareness of climate change has never been higher, yet engagement remains fragile. To bridge that gap, the H&M Foundation partnered with New Zero World to explore how…