We are driving collaboration to create a resilient and prosperous fashion industry.
Ensuring a successful post-Covid-19 recovery for fashion, while continuing to tackle the climate crisis, means rethinking and reinventing its current business models.
Each year millions of tonnes of clothes are produced, worn, and thrown away. Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck load of clothes is burnt or buried in landfill, and the fashion industry is one of the major contributors of plastic waste entering our oceans.
A circular economy for fashion means designing out waste and pollution across supply chains, materials, and manufacturing, right from the start. It ensures that products (apparel, footwear, accessories) are:
A circular economy for fashion would benefit business, society, the environment, and the people who work to produce our clothes. Projects to date include collaborating with brands and the city of New York in #WearNext, and working with the denim industry to redesign jeans in line with the vision of a circular economy for fashion.
In May 2017, Make Fashion Circular was originally launched as the Circular Fibres Initiative, at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit. The initiative brings together leaders from across the fashion industry, including brands, cities, philanthropists, NGOs, and innovators. Its aim is to stimulate the level of collaboration and innovation necessary to create a new textiles economy, aligned with the principles of the circular economy.
One year later, at the 2018 Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the Circular Fibres Initiative entered its second phase: Make Fashion Circular. To thrive, and not just survive, the fashion industry needs to radically redesign its operating model. By transitioning to a circular system, where we keep safe materials in use, the industry can unlock an enormous economic opportunity.
To really Make Fashion Circular, businesses, governments, innovators, and citizens need to join forces. Make Fashion Circular brings together industry leaders including Burberry, Gap Inc., H&M Group, HSBC, Inditex, PVH and Stella McCartney as Core Partners. Make Fashion Circular has been made possible by Laudes Foundation, MAVA Foundation and players of People's Postcode Lottery.
To get in touch with the team, please contact: make-fashion-circular@emf.org
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