Sustainability: Fashion Glossary
Lower-impact materials and circular practices.
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- Bamboo FabricBamboo fabric is a textile made from the bamboo plant, most often as regenerated cellulose: bamboo pulp dissolved with chemicals and spun into viscose, modal or lyocell fibre.
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- Deadstock FabricDeadstock fabric is unused cloth left over from a mill’s or brand’s stock that was never put to its intended use and is sold on to other makers.
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- Eco Fashion Week (Vancouver)
- Econyl FabricEconyl is a trademarked regenerated nylon 6 made by the Italian company Aquafil from waste such as fishing nets, old carpets and textile scraps, which it chemically breaks down and rebuilds into new polymer.
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- HempHemp is a strong, lustrous bast fibre taken from the stems of the Cannabis sativa plant, and the yarn and cloth made from it.
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- Khadi FabricKhadi is a cloth hand-woven in India from yarn hand-spun in India, using cotton, silk, wool or a mixture of them.
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- Lyocell (Tencel)Lyocell is a regenerated cellulose fibre made by dissolving cellulose pulp in an organic solvent and spinning the solution into fibre without forming a chemical derivative of the cellulose.
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- Organic CottonOrganic cotton is cotton fibre grown on certified farmland without genetically engineered seed and without synthetic pesticides or fertilisers beyond those on a permitted list.
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- Recycled PolyesterRecycled polyester is a synthetic fibre made by melting down or chemically breaking down used polyethylene terephthalate (PET), mostly plastic bottles, and spinning it into new polyester fibre.
- Redress Design Award
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- Vegan LeatherVegan leather is a leather-look material made without animal-derived inputs, such as a fabric coated with polyurethane or PVC, or a sheet made from plant or fungal matter.