sustainable vaue chain – autark.berlin

February 2, 2022November 18, 2022

Gabriela Hearst – designer, brand and sustainability advocate, New York

“It’s as simple as – we just need to change our habits”. Gabriela Hearst is a New York City-based luxury fashion brand founded by Gabriela Hearst with roots in Uruquay. She recently became the head designer of Chloé in Paris, which she transformed into a B-Corp company within two years. We can all learn a lot from Gabriela, whether as a designer, producer or consumer. So let’s take a look. Continue reading “Gabriela Hearst – designer, brand and sustainability advocate, New York”

August 3, 2021November 18, 2022

Berlin-based Prêt-à-Couture brand Danny Reinke

Danny Reinke is a fashion brand, which combines craftmanship and local production in our hometown Berlin. We came across them during Berlin Fashion Week. We are glad, that we had the chance to ask about his approach, success factors and challenges of local production. Continue reading “Berlin-based Prêt-à-Couture brand Danny Reinke”

April 25, 2021November 18, 2022

Sustainable Fashion Production in Berlin

We have already looked at sourcing raw materials for the garment industry from a city’s waste. Cities consume 75% of the world’s natural resources (Ellen McArthur Foundation, 2021). Besides the materials used, the way clothes are made also has a big impact on the environment. A pair of fast fashion jeans has travelled up to 50,000 km across several contingents by the time it is bought and used in our country. This is not a sustainable production method. How can the fashion production be made sustainable and local? Continue reading “Sustainable Fashion Production in Berlin”

March 16, 2021November 18, 2022

Sourcing for fashion production in Berlin

We are interessted in circular textile production processes and using „waste“ as ressources for something new. In urban spaces, like our home town Berlin, we see are lot of interessting sourcing opportunities for the production of clothes and shoes. Cities are main driver of consumption. They produce enormous amounts of waste and pollution (circular.berlin). What if, we use that waste and transform it into something good. To source and produce locally seems to be a good starting point to create a possitive impact. Sustainable production comes with the usage of natural materials or recycling of materials. By recycling plastic waste and other waste, resources can be conserved. Let’s do a thought experiment and think about waste streams in urban spaces, which could be a sourcing opportunity for textile production. Continue reading “Sourcing for fashion production in Berlin”

June 16, 2019November 18, 2022

Ioncell from Helsinki

Two leading universities of Finland, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, have created a new sustainable fiber, which has the potential to transform the fashion industry for good. Ioncell is a technology that turns used textiles, pulp or even old newspapers into new textile fibers sustainably and without harmful chemicals. Continue reading “Ioncell from Helsinki”