Innovations in Fashion: from Positive Plastics to Digitised Designs

The pace of innovation continues to accelerate as the fashion industry seeks scaleable alternatives to some of fashion’s most pressing challenges. From addressing plastic waste to replacing plastic altogether, from digitising the secondhand market to exploring the multiple potentials of 3D tech, many of the solutions are — quite literally — already out there. Check out these examples:

●      Italian denim mill Candiani Denim has developed the world’s first compostable stretch denim with COREVA™, made from natural rubber.

●      Fairbrics converts CO2 from industrial sources into synthetic fibre that meets the market’s needs with a net positive impact on the planet.

●      The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA), together with the H&M Foundation, has pioneered a hydrothermal process that fully and gently separates and recycles cotton and polyester blends into new fibres.

●      SPIN by Lablaco is a global platform that allows users to buy, swap, and rent clothing connected with digital care labels and ownership traced on blockchain.

●      Algorithmic Couture, created by research collective Synflux, is a system of digitised design that reduces fabric waste by creating garments that fit exactly to the wearer’s body with 3D body scans, plus room for personal customisation.

Read more in our eighth issue of the Redress Design Award Magazine here.