Material Matter: Our New Column on the Latest in Innovative Materials

By Brittany DiBenedetto | Material Matter
Posted Jul 2, 2016
The fashion industry is advancing at a rapid pace and currently adding 150 billion garments per year. How we consume is just as important as what we do with the garments when we are done. Our knowledge of what things are made of and what the implications on the planet of certain materials matter. For this reason, we are adding a new feature on magnifeco.com called Material Matter – to give some background and insight on the both traditional materials and some of the latest in innovations in this arena.
Our stories to date:
- Natural Dyeing with Bougainvillea Couture
- The Future of Leather, Cruelty-free
- Pirarucu Fish Leather from Brazil
- Wild Silk from Madagascar
- Clean, Regenerated Nylon
- Smart Cotton
- Atlantic Leather, A By-Prouduct of the Food Industry
- F-ABRIC from Europe
- Re-Engineered Wool
- Why GOTS Delivers Sustainability
- The Bacx™ Collection
- Dress Yourself in Orange
- Eco-Suede
- Community Supported Cloth
- The Functionality of Cork