#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™ and Intradeco announce strategic joint venture to enhance recycled cotton fiber production in Central America

Recover™, the leading materials science company and large-scale producer of sustainable, high?quality recycled cotton fiber and cotton fiber blends, and Intradeco, a global vertical manufacturing group and prominent player in the textile industry, offering high-quality apparel across an extensive range of categories, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic joint venture aimed at producing Recover™ recycled cotton fiber and revolutionizing the textile production landscape in the Western hemisphere.

Recover opens new factory and pioneers recycling technology in Vietnam

Recover, the leading global producer of recycled cotton fiber and cotton fiber blends, today announced the opening of its latest manufacturing facility in Vietnam, marking a significant milestone in the company’s global expansion plan. The facility is set to be operational by early 2025, and by pioneering its large-scale recycling technology, RecoverTM aims to enable large scale sustainability in the growing Vietnamese textile production market.

matterr at K – Where innovation meets industry

At this year’s K trade fair, matterr took the stage to showcase its technology and demonstrate how it drives circular polyester at an industrial scale. Insightful conversations, strong new connections, and great energy — all together reminds how powerful it is when innovation meets industry. The momentum from Düsseldorf shows: circular transformation is no longer a vision — it’s happening.

Nike unites innovation, design and product teams to accelerate athlete-centered innovation

Nike, Jordan Brand and Converse are joining forces under a new, athlete-focused creation structure aimed at accelerating innovation and driving growth across NIKE, Inc. The new setup unites the Innovation, Design and Product teams from all three brands into a single “creation engine” that will enable greater sharing of insights, technology and manufacturing methods throughout the innovation process. This integration is part of Nike’s new Sport Offense strategy and is designed to enhance the creation of products that help athletes perform at their best.

DORNIER celebrates its anniversary at ITMA Asia + CITME

To mark its 75th anniversary, machine and plant manufacturer Lindauer DORNIER will be presenting the latest developments in its rapier and air-jet weaving machines at ITMA Asia + CITME in Singapore (Hall 2, Stand B401) from 28 to 31 October 2025. The focus will be on energy-efficient weaving technologies, new IoT solutions for networked textile production and systems for the series production of modern fibre composite components.

BCI warns against ‘dangerous dilution’ of EU corporate directives

The approval of the European Commission’s Omnibus I proposal by the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, accepting controversial changes to key sustainability directives is of great concern. These changes, namely to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), threaten to significantly dilute business reporting and due diligence obligations.

Pioneering open-source framework shows how early innovation drives a just and net-zero fashion future

The non-profit H&M Foundation, in collaboration with Accenture, has unveiled From Signals to Systems Change, an insight report calling on the fashion industry to rethink its role in transformation. At its core is the Reimagined System Map, a pioneering open-source framework that visualises how early-stage innovation could drive a just and net-zero textile future.