Tag: H&M Foundation

Virtual collection designed to make the planet last launched by H&M Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

‘The Billion Dollar Collection’, launched by non-profit H&M Foundation, presents 10 innovative sustainable start-ups that could change the face of the fashion industry. Showcased as garments in a virtual fashion collection, each start-up features a price tag reflecting the estimated support each company believes they need to achieve scale for their disruptive innovations. The H&M Foundation has supported early-stage innovation since 2015 through the Global Change Award, recognizing ideas that can make the fashion industry circular. With over 20,000 entries since its inception, this innovation challenge shows innovators are ready…

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H&M Foundation Global Change Award open

Stuart Mitchell

By 2030, the global middle class is expected to have increased to 5 billion people and the consumption of textiles and shoes by 65% compared to 2015. The world is already using around 1.6 planet’s worth of resources every year. But creativity and innovation can flip the numbers in planet’s favor and help enable the biggest transformation ever in the fashion industry. On August 28, the non-profit H&M Foundation opens the fifth round of its innovation challenge Global Change Award. With a circular mindset fashion can be designed, produced, sold, used,…

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Striking exhibition from Afrofuturist photographer Aida Muluneh on impact of unclean water on women

Stuart Mitchell

Internationally acclaimed Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh launched her extraordinary ‘Water Life’ photography exhibition in Vancouver recently, which takes as its inspiration the impact of water or the lack of it on women’s lives, development and futures. The twelve striking images could be viewed at the largest global event on gender equality, Women Deliver, from 3-6 June and are part of an innovative exhibition design by Canadian architect Mark Aseltine. As part of an open commission supported by the H&M Foundation, charity WaterAid invited Aida Muluneh to create the works in…

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UNICEF and H&M Foundation launch a new interactive online tool to help fathers learn ‘baby talk’

Stuart Mitchell

A new, free, interactive online tool to encourage fathers to talk more to their babies – and learn the most effective methods in doing so – has launched today. The Baby Talk for Dads online tool – developed by UNICEF and H&M Foundation, in collaboration with Dr. Marina Kalashnikova – forms part of the organizations’ longstanding commitment to supporting healthy brain development in babies and young children. The first of its kind product – available on computers and mobile devices – takes fathers on a journey whereby they can learn…

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New Facilities For Textile Blend Recycling Takes Fashion Industry One Step Closer To Circularity

Stuart Mitchell

The H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) open two first of its kind textile recycling facilities in Hong Kong. The award-winning hydrothermal recycling technology is for the first time put into practice at scale. In addition, a miniaturized Garment-To-Garment Recycling System is opened for the public. These facilities are the results of an innovative partnership with HKRITA to accelerate research on textile recycling, to speed up the development of a closed loop for textiles, with the purpose to safeguard the planet and our…

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