At Accelerating Circularity (ACP), our mission is to divert textiles from landfill for use in textile-to-textile recycling. We need to be the Tinder for textiles, making connections that meet shared desires. Unlike Tinder, however, ideal “matches” in the case of circular textiles require compatibility with many...
Circularity is the next frontier for the textile business, but what will it take for the industry to actually become circular? Each year, 50 million tons of textile waste is discarded around the globe. In the United States alone, the totals are estimated to be 16.9 million tons, and only...
Adriano Goldschmied and Beau Lawrence have kept busy during the COVID-19 lockdown with a new denim-adjacent endeavor. Leveraging their combined 70 years in the denim business, Adriano and Beau are making over the classic T-shirt with the Type One Tee, a concept rooted in circularity. Made out...
Every month, Carved in Blue scours the web for the hottest topics in the sector—from who’s making what, to what’s innovative and new, to how consumers are shifting and what they’re buying. Here’s a look at what we are reading this month: 70+ Fast Fashion Brands &...
COVID-19 has disrupted life as usual for all age groups, but Gen Z is facing coming of age milestones during the pandemic, including college graduation. Born between the mid 1990s and the early 2010s, Gen Z accounts for 40 percent of all global consumers, with $143...
By Michael Kininmonth The Golden Valley In the mid-1970s, my mums’ friend, Hazel, let me know about a job going at a local factory. Hazel was “in-the-know” as she was the Personnel Manager at a local yarn spinner (the concept of Human Resources was yet to...
Making the switch from corporate roles to consulting comes with a unique set of benefits and challenges. In a Carved in Blue webinar on July 7, we caught up with eight denim freelancers who have a combined 150 years of experience in the business to get their thoughts...
The future of fashion is circular. But a key factor in making circularity a reality is transparency, which relies on collaboration throughout the entire supply chain. Creating a blueprint for working together, Lenzing, Officina +39 and Meidea teamed up to develop The Circle Book, a lookbook of low-impact...
The pandemic pause of normal daily life gives people time to think. Against this backdrop, consumers are reconsidering their shopping behaviors and brands’ unethical behaviors are being put under a microscope. Now that much of the world has entered its fourth month of lockdown, Carved in...
By Ani Wells and Anatt Finkler The saying “news travels fast” has a whole new meaning. News doesn’t just travel fast, it travels instantly. And this is why we have a major problem with buzzwords becoming instantly popular. Biodegradability and compostability claims are used interchangeably far too often....
During the pandemic, denim mills are coming together as colleagues rather than competitors to chart a course forward. A Carved in Blue panel of Pakistani denim mills covered the current challenges due to COVID-19 and their priorities as they look at post-pandemic operations. Panelists are beginning to see...
COVID-19 offers the chance for the fashion industry to reset toward a more circular production model, but scaling up recycling efforts is going to require collaboration. A webinar moderated by Accelerating Circularity brought together speakers from Lenzing, Officina +39 and Meidea to discuss their companies’ solutions for sustainability. These three...