Sustainability Round-up September
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As one of the largest fashion events in Asia, Shanghai Fashion Week resumes offline show this month, with COMME MOI kicking off the event. The Green Fashion Society (GFS) empowered by GREENEXT also returns to Shanghai Fashion Week, with a debut at Mode Shanghai. Find out more about China's sustainability news at GREENEXT's Sustainability Round-up for September 2022!
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Giorgio Armani’s global clean water project, Acqua for Life, is now working with Chinese consumers to help water-scarce regions access safe drinking water, which promotes sustainable development in water-scarce regions. DBS Bank (Hong Kong) signed a USD35 million sustainability-linked loan for Bosideng, a globally leading Chinese down apparel retailer, which marks the first sustainability-linked loan for Bosideng as well as the largest loan of its kind in Asia. Sustainable fashion designer Feng Chen Wang navigates perfectionism and acceptance in uncertainty with her latest Fall/Winter 2022 collection. Meanwhile, in New York, Angel Chang presented her latest zero-carbon Spring 2023 womenswear collection, “Weaving the Future With Indigenous Textiles” with no plastics, synthetics, fossil fuels, or electricity used.
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Taiwan-based JSRTEX, a leading textile innovator in Asia, has completed its first sustainable dye run using the ground-breaking Endeavour waterless dyeing system from UK textile industry disruptor Alchemie Technology; while Freudenberg China establishes a new Apparel Technical Solution Center in Nantong, aiming to offer unparalleled technical expertise and innovations to apparel customers from nearly all apparel segments in Asia and around the world.
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The world's largest sustainable fashion design competition Redress Design Award unveiled this year's winners at the 2022 Grand Final Fashion Presentation in Hong Kong. In an announcement made by Redress and VF Corporation, the NGO’s four-year collaborator, Federico Badini Confalonieri was revealed to be the recipient of the award. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) recently announced the official upgrade of the Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) and the establishment of the School of Fashion and Textiles (SFT), the third flagship and independent school within PolyU, focusing on fashion and textile education, and innovative technology research. While Hang Seng Bank and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University have teamed up to launch the Hang Seng x PolyU Sustainable Future Challenge: Textile and Fashion, which calls for innovation and technology talent, including young creatives, to help imagine the future of the industry with a “sustainability-centric” mindset.
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As part of Shenzhen Fashion Week 2022, Hong Kong-based environmental charity Redress is presenting 8 emerging sustainable fashion brands from the previous Redress Design Award at various events from 18–24 September. Fashion Summit (HK) returns to CENTRESTAGE this year! The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) annually organizes CENTRESTAGE to showcase fashion designers and brands from Hong Kong and around the world, as well as global fashion designers' sustainable collections. delicates, a brand that advocates for a comfortable, free, and sustainable lifestyle with white t-shirts in all sorts of patterns, launched a T-shirt upcycling Pop-up Tour in China, and we took an in-depth look into their communication campaigns.
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Alibaba Group saved 619,944 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in emissions across 12 months by tapping cleaner energy sources as it strives to hit its carbon neutrality target. That saving is on a par with the carbon dioxide generated by 12,915 U.S. households in a year, according to the platform company’s latest released Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report.