####InnovationLocale

WINTEX

Entrepreneurial opportunities through the transfer of textile research and innovation results

This event will take place on Thursday March 31, 2022 in MONASTIR (TUNISIA). The main objective of this round table is to encourage local actors to get involved in the establishment of the textile innovation centers and the academy council that the WINTEX project aims to create. This is the key to making the centers sustainable and attractive for the Tunisian ecosystem.

Representatives of the Tunisian Ministry of Industry and support organizations are invited to participate in this round table in order to enrich the debate and thus facilitate the development of recommendations to promote the development of textile innovation centers in the region and promote entrepreneurship opportunities that could arise from the creation of innovation centers.

####EconomyCircular

HEREWEAR

VRETENA acts for more sustainable and circular fashion

VRETENA's vision is to contribute to the transformation of the fashion industry, by reconciling three concepts: Urban, Natural and Innovative. Thus, in the context of the HEREWEAR project, VRETENA is developing and piloting clothing prototypes with new biosourced, sustainable materials and manufactured in a distributed network.

Indeed, the objective of HEREWEAR is to demonstrate that the production of clothing based on biosourced, circular and local materials is an alternative to manufacturing based on cotton or polyester. HEREWEAR is also interested in the release of microfibers, which VRETENA will measure on the manufactured prototypes, in order to serve as an example for best practices.

Ready to follow the journey of local and sustainable bio-based circular clothing? Join the growing bio-sourced circular movement!

For more information about the project and its partner VRETENA, visit our blog post.

HEREWEAR present at the Berlin Fashion Summit

The event took place last week as an online event aimed at challenging fashion and textile industry professionals around the world to improve their understanding of sustainability. The theme of the edition was Regenerative Fashion Systems – Implementing Positive Impact.

On the third day, the teacher Rebecca Earley, co-director of the Center for Circular Design (CCD) and Dieter Stellmach, senior project manager at DITF, presented key sustainable projects (HEREWEAR & TRICK) during the roundtableEuropean circular textile research & development – best practice initiatives, hosted by Marte Hentschel, CEO of Sqetch. In the presentation, Professor Earley highlighted HEREWEAR and introduced the project to the audience, highlighting its main aspects and aspirations for realization. Videos of the event are available on the official site.

####CommunityBuilding

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These two women appropriate the language of color

Two Italian women,Giuditta RossiAndCristina Maurelli, challenge us on the way we name colors and call for change.

Working on a corporate project from their office in Prato, Tuscany, Giuditta Rossi, a brand strategist who identifies with being black and the storyteller Cristina Maurelli, who is white, found themselves accidentally talking about how colors are described in textiles and clothing, and more generally in most industries. They then suddenly became aware of the absurdity of the “Color Carne” — which means flesh color in English — and how it is associated with a pinky-beige which best represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal of the skin “English-rose”.

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