Understand sustainable fabrics and eco friendly clothing materials and why they are becoming essential in today's fashion ...

What Is the Textile Waste Crisis? The fashion industry’s boom has come at a steep environmental cost. Each year, around 92 million tonnes of textile waste are produced worldwide — much of it ending up ...

Gözde Göncü-Berk, associate professor of design, has been named the inaugural Maria Manetti Shrem Endowed Chair in Design, Fashion and Textiles and the founding director of the Maria Manetti Shrem ...

Kombucha is widely consumed as a fermented, effervescent tea. But some people in the world of textiles look at kombucha and see something else. Asiah Brazil-Geyshick, an Ojibwe student studying ...

WENZHOU, China (AP) — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China's eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A fashion industry push to reduce the environmental impact of the clothing it sells ...

When Fashion for Good completed its Sorting for Circularity project in Europe in 2022, one finding stood out. While increasing the use of recycled textiles is a carbon-slashing move that fashion ...

The University of Delaware Fashion and Textile Collection engages and inspires the University community and beyond through its collection and study of the uses and meanings of clothing and textiles.

Textiles must be treated not as donations or waste diversion programs, but as engineered industrial feedstock. By Christina ...

What generally happens when clothes go out of style is giving the fashion industry a bad look. "The fashion and textile industry is one of the most wasteful industries in the world," said Conor ...

As the luxury industry grapples with sustainability pressures, repair is emerging from the fringes, but scale requires ...

Spring is finally here — a time for letting the light in, especially on the dark corners of your (overstuffed) closet. The ...