Topic: Fashion and textiles

Case study – Cucumber Clothing: ‘Try before you buy’ – using circular business models to connect with customers

26 January 2023

Snapshot Cucumber Clothing, a sustainable female leisure and sleepwear brand, saw an opportunity to diversify their offer...

Case study – Phoebe English: Pioneering a fully circular, closed-loop fashion studio

1 December 2022

Snapshot Phoebe English, a London-based sustainable fashion studio, has seen first-hand the volume of textile waste generated...

Case study – KAPDAA – The Offcut Company: Giving new life to textile waste

Snapshot KAPDAA – The Offcut Company turns brands’ off-cut fabrics into beautiful accessories. They saw how few solutions...

Case study – Birdsong: Extending the lifetime of garments through a new repair service

Snapshot Birdsong is a sustainable fashion studio based in East London. They decided to take their environmental ethos one...

Case study – THRIFT+ – Launching a new recycling Thrift+ bag

Snapshot Thrift+ is an online platform for second-hand shopping and resale. They saw first-hand how much textile waste is...

Podcast – The circular economy playbook, episode 12: When clothing and brands are built to last – Duncan Money

2 February 2022

In this episode, Ali and Hannah speak to Duncan Money, Head of Social and Environmental Impact at the cycling apparel and...

London Repair Week 2020 Featured Image

Case study – ReLondon Repair Week 2020: bringing together businesses, boroughs and communities to inspire and enable Londoners to repair more stuff

Snapshot When 69% of Londoners told us that they’d fix more of their things if only they knew how – and almost half of...

Case study – Circular Fashion Fast Forward: FARFETCH’s journey to embracing circular economy business models

In 2018, leading UK fashion brands decided it was time to shake things up. They signed up to ‘Circular Fashion Fast Forward’,...

Case study – Circular Fashion Fast Forward: FW’s journey to embracing circular economy business models

In 2018, leading UK fashion brands decided it was time to shake things up. They signed up to ‘Circular Fashion Fast Forward’,...

Delivery man giving Zanna Vandijk a parcel of second-hand Adidas clothes

Case study – David Quass from adidas on circular economy business models

adidas were among the pioneering brands who took part in our Circular Fashion Fast Forward project, a two-year project funded...

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