Sustainable Fashion and Apparel Design: Organizations | Think Tanks

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was established in 2010 with the aim of accelerating the transition to the circular economy. Since its creation the charity has emerged as a global thought leader, establishing the circular economy on the agenda of decision makers across business, government and academia.

Make the next materials for circular fashion. By connecting innovators, suppliers and manufacturers, we can accelerate and scale the circular economy.

The Fair Fashion Network is an association registered in Switzerland with the aim of informing fashion-conscious and critical consumers about fair fashion and networking stakeholders. The network is based on the Fair Fashion Finder, which enables consumers to find fair fashion quickly and easily. At the same time GET CHANGED! Transparency on the social and ecological production conditions of the presented collections.

Global Fashion Agenda’s mission is to mobilise the international fashion industry to transform the way we produce and consume fashion.

Founded in Los Angeles in November 2014, The Good Trade is a digital media company featuring brands, products & ideas dedicated to social good. The Good Trade was built on the fundamental idea that consumers are capable of driving significant social change through their everyday purchases, consumer preferences and lifestyle choices.

Founded in 2004 with a multi–stakeholder board, MADE-BY is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation with a mission to ‘make sustainable fashion common practice’. Through targeted consultancy, partnerships and stakeholder engagement we work with well over 100 brands and retailers including Acne, Eileen Fisher, H&M, Hugo Boss, Kering Group, LVMH Group, Ted Baker, Tommy Hilfiger and G-Star. Our team is equipped with broad international and interdisciplinary experience including strategy setting, supply chain management, sustainable buying, traceability, sustainable fibres and materials, chemistry and wet processing, leather, labour standards and human rights and change management.

The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.

Our mission is to transform the fashion industry into a transparent, accountable and sustainable system that celebrates the stories, the people and the resources behind the clothing.

Sustainable Brands is home for the global community of business innovators who are shaping the future of commerce world wide. Since 2006, our goal has been to inspire, engage and equip today's business and brand leaders to prosper for the near and long term by leading the way to a sustainably abundant future. We do so by offering news and views from thought and practice leaders, live and on-line events, peer-to-peer learning groups, a robust resource library, a solutions provider directory and more -- all designed to help brand, sustainability and design innovation professionals, social entrepreneurs and the eco-system of value network partners who support them, discover, co-create and successfully execute on new opportunities to profitably innovate for sustainability.

Yerdle gives companies access to their own products in the secondary market by offering a platform that makes it easy for brands to buy back and resell used items.

Mud Jeans seeks to close the loop on jeans production. Customers can lease jeans and return them for repair or recycling. This reduces supply chain vulnerability to price fluctuations, whilst reducing environmental impacts associated with traditional cotton crops.

In France it is estimated that 600,000 tonnes of clothing, household linen, shoes and workwear is currently discarded each year, but only a quarter of that volume is currently collected. Five organizations form the core partners of the project – cd2e, T2M, UP-tex, Team² and EcoTLC - and each bring different skills or knowledge in convening relevant stakeholders, textile innovation, reverse logistics, materials re-use and economics. This breadth is necessary, as this is an interdisciplinary initiative which seeks to shift the activities of participating businesses from a linear flow of textile material to a more circular one, including the design, processes, uses, promotion and marketing.