Sustainable Fashion Innovation & Inspiration: 2025: Part 2
In this twice-yearly report, we highlight the exciting nascent innovations and inspiring design developments prompting sustainable change and resourceful creativity in the fashion industry.
We focus on sustainable solutions for two problem categories in this edition – swimwear and sneakers – as well as highlight the biomaterial innovations and kind colour solutions to know about that will prove game-changing in years to come.
Sustainable Swimwear in Focus
Solving the Unsustainable Sneaker Problem
Powered by Nature: Material Innovations
The Kinder Colour Revolution
A notoriously unsustainable category, swimwear is undergoing something of a responsible makeover. With many consumers aware that it typically carries a heavy carbon footprint, due to synthetic fabric bases and finishes, this is great news for brands and retailers keen to deliver kinder product to conscious swimwear consumers.
A notoriously unsustainable category, swimwear is undergoing something of a responsible makeover. With many consumers aware that it typically carries a heavy carbon footprint, due to synthetic fabric bases and finishes, this is great news for brands and retailers keen to deliver kinder product to conscious swimwear consumers.
Summary
Sustainable Swimwear in Focus | A notoriously unsustainable category, swimwear is undergoing something of a responsible makeover. With many consumers aware that it typically carries a heavy carbon footprint, due to synthetic fabric bases and finishes, this is great news for brands and retailers keen to deliver kinder product to conscious swimwear consumers. |
Solving the Unsustainable Sneaker Problem | Like swimwear, sneakers have a legacy materiality problem, but also a volume impact issue given their global popularity. As a result, it’s an area where investment in eco-innovation is progressive. We highlight the latest exciting launches moving the category towards a more sustainable future. |
Powered by Nature: Material Innovations | A host of exciting, nascent biomaterial innovations are emerging from educational institutions and incubators alike, while relatively new-to-market materials are becoming more accessible and affordable. This marks an exciting time in the field, increasing impetus for brands to explore opportunities for commercial adoption to make a meaningful difference. |
The Kinder Colour Revolution | As highlighted in Sustainable Fashion Innovation & Inspiration: 2025 Pt 1 and Conscious Colour: Sustainable Solutions, kinder colour is evolving at pace, moving from the niche and specialist to the mainstream and commercially viable. We unveil the latest round of inspired solutions to one of the fashion industry’s biggest sustainability problems, utilising waste, algae and bacteria. |
Sustainable Fashion Innovation & Inspiration: 2025: Part 2
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