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Biobased Innovation as a Fashion and Textile Design Must: A European Perspective

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  • Erminia D’Itria

    (Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, 20123 Milan, Italy)

  • Chiara Colombi

    (Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, 20123 Milan, Italy)

Abstract

Fashion industry investments drive the choice for textile solutions characterized by radical experimentation and a firm commitment to sustainability. In the last five years, textile innovations have been strongly related to biobased textile solutions evolving to become effectively feasible and strategic. The produced qualitative knowledge implementations consider new production patterns, innovative technical and digital know-how, and new consumption scenarios. The directions the industry is tracing may provide new opportunities for future textile development in the circular biobased economy. This paper presents a map of current European practices. It discusses the possible passage through a holistic paradigm that goes beyond the boundaries of the old productive systems to accompany the sector towards a new sustainable and transversal state. It also presents three selected best practices that return the actual context in which the phenomenon occurs. A model is presented to demonstrate how these circular processes of biobased materials production enable more process innovations which are developed through implementing the process itself: companies’ search for rethinking and implementing the traditional practices or designing new ones (as determined by the doctoral research of one of the authors).

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  • Erminia D’Itria & Chiara Colombi, 2022. "Biobased Innovation as a Fashion and Textile Design Must: A European Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-23, January.
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    1. Celinda Palm & Sarah E. Cornell & Tiina Häyhä, 2021. "Making Resilient Decisions for Sustainable Circularity of Fashion," Circular Economy and Sustainability, Springer, vol. 1(2), pages 651-670, September.
    2. Miriam Ribul, 2021. "Regenerative Textiles: A Framework for Future Materials Circularity in the Textile Value Chain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-17, December.
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    1. Micol Barletta & Idiano D'Adamo & Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes & Massimo Gastaldi, 2024. "Business strategy and innovative models in the fashion industry: Clothing leasing as a driver of sustainability," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(5), pages 4730-4743, July.
    2. Chiara Colombi & Erminia D’Itria, 2023. "Fashion Digital Transformation: Innovating Business Models toward Circular Economy and Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-24, March.
    3. Yunia Dwie Nurcahyanie & Moses Laksono Singgih & Dyah Santhi Dewi, 2022. "Implementing Online Product Reviews and Muslim Fashion Innovation for Resilience during the New Normal in Indonesia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-20, February.
    4. Víctor Fernández & Elena Laborda & Felipe Del-Busto & Carmen Bartolomé, 2023. "Social Perspectives towards Biobased Products and Textiles," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-24, January.
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