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Stay ahead of the curve with the latest sustainability insights from the fashion industry with Redress’ curated selection of learning materials.
Books
Wear Next: Fashioning the Future – Clare Press (Thames & Hudson)
A crystal-ball look into tomorrow's wardrobe: conscious, fair, slow, upcycled, biointelligent, digital... the fashion industry is undergoing some radical reimagining.
The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change – edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change—its past, present, and future—taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests.
Textiles: Concepts and Principles (4th Edition) by Virginia Hencken Elsasser and Julia Ridgway Sharp (Fairchild Books)
Textiles: Concepts and Principles provides a thorough approach to the fundamentals of textiles in a readable, nontechnical style, focusing on the interrelationship of textile components to help students understand and predict textile properties and performance to ultimately choose the best textile for their final product.
Podcasts
5Thread
In the 5Thread podcast, host Joanna Czutkowa, CEO of 5Thread, dives deep into the world of sports apparel, guided by the voices of five industry experts in each series.
The Circular Economy Show
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation welcomes you to The Circular Economy Show, a podcast about a new way to design, make, and use things, and how we can build an economy that's fit for the 21st century.
Reports
What Fuels Fashion? by Fashion Revolution
A special edition of the Global Fashion Transparency Index ranking 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands on decarbonisation and related disclosure.
The Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Shifting the narrative: a guide to aligning fashion communication to the 1.5-degree climate target and wider sustainability goals.
The State of Fashion 2024 by the Business of Fashion (BoF) and McKinsey & Co
Fashion companies will face economic headwinds, technology shifts, and an evolving competitive landscape in 2024. However, shifting consumer priorities will continue to offer opportunities.
Websites
The Mills Fabrica
The Mills Fabrica is a go-to solutions platform accelerating techstyle and agrifood tech innovations for sustainability and social impact. We recommend subscribing to their newsletter for updates.
Sustainable Fashion Academy
The Sustainable Fashion Academy’s (SFA) mission is to exponentially accelerate progress towards science-based sustainability targets and the global sustainability goals (SDGs) by leveraging the power and influence of the apparel and textiles industry.
Watch
The Shitthropocene – Patagonia
The Shitthropocene is a journey from the cellular-level origins of our lack of impulse control to the ways our central nervous systems have been hacked in the name of capitalism. It’s also about how we might begin to save ourselves from ourselves. Plus, there are dancing cave people.