News

Our Closed Loop Fashion News section features our latest happenings around events, project updates, publications, partnerships and more. It also serves as a platform to inspire, share knowledge and learn together from experiences and actions taken around the globe to create positive impact.

Innovative Design

Runway Show Shanghai: Upcycling lingerie from pre-consumer textile waste for Interfilière

Lingerie is amongst the more complex product segments to be found in the fashion industry. Especially bras are considered to be one of the most complicated garments to make and can easily consist of more than 30 different parts. This also makes lingerie a challenging product segment when it comes to sustainability: redesigning lingerie with circularity in mind is a complex task.

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.

Sustainable Production

Threadapeutic: Innovative Upcycling Design

Studio visit at Jakarta based pioneering upcycling brand Threadapeutic, that is using a very unique process of fabric manipulation to create beautiful bags and tapestry from textile waste.