Design out waste with our circular economy design strategies

With our circular economy design strategies, brands, students, designers and manufacturers get inspired and learn how to include sustainable materials and circular solutions in their product development and material sourcing activities.

Plan ahead, design out waste by creating fashion items already with their end-of-life in mind.

Design out waste is crucial to achieving circularity and sustainability. That’s why we aim to inspire our clients to design new garments using diverse materials, components and sustainable strategies, which enable reuse and recycling.

“Waste is a design flaw.”

Design out waste with our solutions for product development and material sourcing.

Our design out waste services have a strong focus on capacity building. Through workshops, training and the creation of in-house guidelines, we provide you with the tools and the knowledge that enable new strategies for circularity already at the stage of ideation.

Capacity Building & Training

Product design and development

Material sourcing for Circularity

Guidelines and Policies

Circular economy is not an option, it is the only way forward.

With our circular economy design strategies, you can:

Design new and innovative products & services
Be ahead of your competitors
Reduce your environmental footprint
Increase the knowledge and skills of your team
Introduce new fibres & materials to your collections

Latest News

Innovative Design

Creating lingerie from textile waste?

Designing for circularity is still a relatively new design approach, but fashion design students of Indonesia’s Maranatha University have braved the challenge and surprised our ‘Design out waste’-competition jury with incredibly creative lingerie and bodywear designs made from pre-consumer waste.

News at CLF

Fashion supply chains in times of crisis

Join us for a virtual panel discussion on the topic of disrupted textile supply chains and the state of circular fashion after Covid-19. We will discuss this pivotal time in history as well as the opportunities that have surfaced within the chaos.

The bigger picture

Fashion consumption in times of Covid-19?

Can sustainable fashion be the new norm after the pandemic? Cinta Azwiendasari, a Behaviour Change Design and Communications Specialist has taken a little deep dive for us to research on changing consumption patterns in times of Covid-19 in her home country Indonesia.

Supporting fashion brands and manufacturers to make a difference.

We provide apparel and textile industry stakeholders with practical tools and holistic solutions for applied sustainability and circularity, from capacity building to strategy planning, creation and implementation.

Understand

Train

Plan

Create

Let’s rethink fashion together.

Learn more about opportunities for applied sustainability and circularity for your long-term business success.