#Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-09-11

French Designer Hugo Dumas named Joint Winner of the Redress Design Award 2025

French emerging designer Hugo Dumas has been named a joint winner of the prestigious Redress Design Award 2025, the world’s leading sustainable fashion competition. His five-look capsule collection was unveiled on Thursday, 4 September, during the award’s official runway show. Dumas shares the First Prize with Carla Zhang from Mainland China, marking the first time the competition has named two winners.

French designer Hugo Dumas has taken top honors at the Redress Design Award 2025, the world’s leading sustainable fashion competition, sharing the prize for the first time with Carla Zhang. The awards featured a runway celebrating emerging young designers, where Dumas unveiled his capsule “The Peri-Urbans.” Crafted with Recover recycled cotton fibers, the collection is a striking example of how circular design and sustainable materials can create innovative, high-quality fashion, demonstrating how creativity and environmental responsibility can coexist in the contemporary fashion industry. © 2025 Recover

According to the judging panel, both collections offered “distinctly outstanding circular solutions, worthy of equal support to amplify impact.” The winners will receive mentorship, an exclusive opportunity to showcase their collections at the Shanghai GREENEXT Expo 2025, and a limited-edition retail collaboration with renowned creative Flora Cheong-Leen, supported by the Tian Art Foundation. The award itself is supported by DHL.

Circular design featuring Recover™ Recycled Cotton fibers

Dumas’ capsule collection is distinguished by its strong commitment to circularity. Each look was designed using monocolor and monofiber principles, with external elements made to be easily removed, facilitating future recycling. The collection includes quilted garments such as a long coat, blazer, trousers, jacket, and accessories like a handbag and a Gavroche-style cap, all in black or white. The outer fabric combines Recover™ recycled cotton fibers with RCS-certified organic cotton, produced in collaboration with Polopiqué. A defining feature is the use of Recover™ RCotton fibers, made from 100% recycled cotton, as padding for the quilted pieces. This ensures the entire look remains monofiber and monocolor throughout. According to a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) externally validated by EcoReview (2025), Recover™ recycled cotton fibers offer significant environmental benefits, including a 99.9% reduction in water usage and 93% lower CO? emissions compared with conventional cotton.

Titled “The Peri-Urbans”, Hugo Dumas’ collection presents an intimate reflection on his personal identity and his home region of Essonne, France. Embracing uncertainty and duality, his silhouettes capture the person he has grown to be, at once masculine and feminine, rural and urban, artisanal and industrial.

“I’ve come to understand that creation is pollution, that every garment, even when designed to last, is meant to be seen as ‘soon-to-be-waste.’ My collection meets the criteria of the ESPR rules, because by planning their end of life, we also plan their next life.”

Recover™ launches Recover™ Fabrics to accelerate recycled cotton adoption

Recover™, a leading materials science company and one of the world’s largest producers of recycled cotton fiber, today announced the launch of Recover™ Fabrics, a new product line designed to make premium, low-impact fabrics readily accessible to brands of all sizes, from global retailers to emerging labels.

Recover™ secures multi-year recycled cotton agreement with H&M

Recover™ has signed a multi-year agreement with H&M to support the integration of its recycled cotton fiber, RCotton, for use in H&M’s products. Since early 2024, H&M and Recover™ have collaborated on product development, which now enables scaled commercial introduction of Recover™ mechanically recycled cotton into H&M’s collections.

Nike becomes anchor customer for Loop Industries’ Infinite Loop™ India facility

Loop Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:LOOP) (“Loop”), a clean technology company accelerating the circular economy, today announced a multi-year offtake agreement with NIKE, Inc. (“Nike”), the global leader in athletic footwear and apparel. Under the agreement, Loop will supply Twist™, its virgin-quality circular polyester resin made exclusively from textile waste, establishing Nike as the anchor customer for the Infinite Loop™ India manufacturing facility which is being constructed in partnership with Ester Industries.

Indorama Ventures’ Fibers business and Jiaren Chemical Recycling form joint venture to enhance global textile circularity

Indorama Ventures’ Fibers business, a leading global supplier of recycled technical textiles, polyester fibers and yarns, and Jiaren Chemical Recycling, a technology leader in chemical polyester recycling, form a joint venture to accelerate circularity in the global textile industry. Both partners plan to leverage the joint venture to unlock up to 100,000 tonnes of textile-recycled PET spinning capacity annually, thereby enhancing the resilience and transparency of the global textile supply chain and optimizing the value both partners deliver to the industry.

The LYCRA Company announces grand opening of its largest global Spandex production facility in China

The LYCRA Company, a global leader in innovative and sustainable fiber solutions for the apparel and personal care industries, today announced the official opening of its largest spandex production facility—the LYCRA® fiber (Yinchuan) Plant in Ningxia Province, China. This milestone underscores the company’s continued investment in the Chinese market and highlights its strong commitment to developing localized supply and distribution networks while advancing smart manufacturing upgrades.

Lenzing invests EUR 15 mn to strengthen position in the hygiene market

The Lenzing AG is investing approximately EUR 15 mn to expand its production capacity for premium viscose fibers at its site in Lenzing, Austria. This strategic investment is part of the recently announced investment program of EUR 100 mn in total to secure the long-term competitiveness of Lenzing’s Austrian production sites. The capacity expansion reinforces the company’s commitment to providing sustainable solutions to the global hygiene market. It also strengthens the company's role as a trusted provider of high-quality fibers for feminine care applications.

FET prepares for final exhibition of 2025

Fibre Extrusion Technology Ltd (FET) of Leeds, UK has completed its second major exhibition of 2025 at ITMA ASIA in Singapore, which is aimed at the textile and garment industry in South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Once again, this trade show proved to be a successful one for FET, with considerable interest from several countries surrounding China.