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19 Apr

Inside Zara, Lululemon Drops for Earth Month, Circular Fashion

A Zara First: Zara dropped its first collection with Circ, the brand’s first capsule using recycled poly-cotton blends after parent company Inditex invested within the fiber-to-fiber recycling company in July. Circ’s tech tackles the long-standing problem of recycling poly-cotton blends. It’s the one platform to successfully separate poly-cotton blended textile waste and get better each cellulosic cotton and artificial polyester. It then turns them into latest fibers and textiles. The corporate goals to scale back the necessity for virgin textiles in the provision chain. Currently, just one percent of poly-cotton blends are recycled. Zara’s Circ capsule features 4 pieces — a brief, a halter top, a shirt and wide-legged trousers — using lyocell made from 50 percent recycled poly-cotton, and polyester made with...
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6 Apr

Jane Goodall Sells Out Brooklyn Museum, Steps for Shea:

When in Brooklyn: Jane Goodall, renowned ethologist and conservationist, made a special appearance on the Brooklyn Museum Tuesday night. Recently celebrating her 89th birthday on Monday, the primatologist appeared alongside media company The Meteor for “A Night of Hope in Motion: Dr. Jane Goodall and Friends.” On the event, she shared her message of hope, surrounded by Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots and Shoots youth program and activists, amongst them 24-year-old Pakistani American climate advocate Ayisha Siddiqa and Sanchali Pal, chief executive officer of Commons, a private carbon footprint-tracking app. Brooklyn will keep the highlight on climate when the Brooklyn Style Foundation presents its seventeenth annual Fashion Week Brooklyn event April 9 to fifteen. Themed to the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop fashion,...
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