Customer-to-customer platform Saritoria is adding more luxury brands to its preloved selection, with a focus on bridal wear as it aims to promote sustainable fashion in India.

Saritoria is expanding its preloved product selection and has launched a bridal wear segment to promote second hand fashion to brides-to-be. The business has also launched a series on its Facebook and Instagram platforms which recreates recent celebrity red carpet looks using preloved pieces available on its platform. The business also shares info graphics on different ways to shop fashion sustainably to promote its ethics in a wider context. By focusing on creating a community of shoppers, Saritoria aims to increase engagement with its platform and build brand loyalty.

ShehlinaSoomro founded Saritoria in July, 2021 along with fashion entrepreneur and designer Pernia Qureshi. The platform specializes in luxury labels and features clothing and accessories by brands including Anushree Reddy, RohitBal and SuneetVerma, etc

A European producer of workwear fabrics, Klopman is promoting an innovative circular economy project that aims to achieve significant energy savings and localize the supply chain in Europe.

Renaissance Textile, together with its partners, including Klopman and TDV Industries, aims to conclude an agreement with its clients to receive and recycle their clothes at the end of their first life cycle. This will allow the production of new fabrics, made with an increasing amount of recycled fiber, which can be put back on the market. A key part of the process is the advanced technology of the company’s 12,000 sq m ndustrial building in Laval, France, where garments are grouped, sorted, and then transformed into raw material ready to be trimmed and woven.

The project has set several targets for 2024, the most significant of which are an expansion to three fabric fraying lines and a target to recycle 3,000 to 9,000 tons of fabric by 2024. All this will translate into an estimated saving of 430,000 tons of CO2 by 2026, equivalent to the planting of about 57 million trees.

To give sustainable rural cotton producers in Peru more visibility in the textile value chain, Zurich-based Haelixa is participating in a pilot project launched by the United Nations in collaboration with the Costach cooperative and textile company Creditex.

As per a Knitting Industry report, the initiative is jointly implemented with the International Trade Centre (ITC) and financially supported by the European Union.

With the additional support of the +Cotton Project, implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), a pilot is being realized to mark and trace the finest Pima cotton for Creditex directly at its gin in Piura, Peru.

The Haelixa technology ensures that the information about the product origin and the journey of the product along the value chain is always safely embedded into the product itself. The marked cotton will be used to make exclusive fabrics for luxury California sleepwear brand Cat’s Pajamas.

Eight new companies from across the globe have joined the CanopyStyle initiative to keep Ancient and Endangered Forests out of the viscose supply chain and help conserve the world’s most vital forests, biodiversity, and climate.

From Shein, to Hanky Panky and ocean+main in the US, River Island and AllSaints in the UK, and Kmart Australia and Boody in Australia, these far-reaching fashion companies are uniting with the 478 brands already signed on to CanopyStyle to save forests. CanopyStyle is a collaborative initiative dedicated to transforming viscose supply chains away from sourcing from forests and accelerating the production of low-carbon, Next Generation Solutions like recycled-textile or agricultural residue derived viscose.

The majority of these brands have also joined Pack4Good, Canopy’s initiative to make sure they are implementing smart packaging design and using the most eco-friendly paper packaging.

Canopy is a solutions-driven not-for-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting forests, species, and climate. The organization is committed to working together to guide businesses to better, more sustainable practices.