NEWSLETTER
N°5 NOVEMBER 2021
####SustainableFuture
TCBL
Ingredients for sustainability, this is the title of TCBL Days 2021
Four of these important ingredients are at the center of the TCBL 2021 days: we will explore circular, creative, local and inclusive solutions through our projects and their contributors. These four ingredients represent our four avenues of research through ongoing EU-funded projects. TCBL Days 2021 will examine the concrete results of Herewear (local bio-based fibers and fabrics), Creativewear Plus (creativity and collaboration) and shemakes.eu (gender innovation).
Join us for the launch event of the new TCBL Association, the non-profit association that advances the TCBL network with CEDCS - TCBL, the service company participating on behalf of the network in funded activities.
####WomenEmpowering
shemakes
Women have their say in changing the textile and clothing sector
Our series shemakes Voices keep on going ! Shemakes Voices began in September 2021 as a monthly online event to hear the voices and personal stories of women making their mark in the textile and clothing industry.
On October 20, Kerstin Helmerdig interviewed Marte Hentschel, founder/director of the matchmaking platform Sourcebook/Sqetch (today a community of more than 30,000 companies), also a design professor and mentor of young entrepreneurs. Marte highlighted the importance of women starting their entrepreneurial journey with the idea that innovation is often the result of hybrid skills encompassing technology, creativity and strategy. She specifies that women are more committed to making innovation a way to connect with people and communities, to grow and learn, to exchange and produce change.
Save the date for our next guest Aurélie Mossé, November 22. Find these conversations live on the channels Facebook And Youtube.
shemakes
Call for extension of shemakesLabs
Shemakes is organizing a
open call
to 12 new laboratories to join its network. The winning laboratories will each receive €15,000 to carry out community activities that advance the role of women in the fashion, textile and clothing industry.
Application deadline: November 30, 2021
Funds to be allocated to activities from January to June 2022
####EconomyCircular
WINTEX
Finally the meetings physical exercises are starting again!
After 20 months of interruption, European partners will be able to go to Tunisia! Thus CEDECS-TCBL is co-organizing and will participate in a round table on the creation of a Textile Clothing Academy in Tunisia on November 10. The following days CEDECS-TCBL will participate with other partners in project meetings on November 11, 12 and 13 in Monastir, Tunisia and will attend two events: the International congress in applied research in textiles (CIRATM-9) and TUNTEX- 3 (program:
). The results of this mission will be reported in the November monthly letter.
HEREWEAR
The platform Recycle brings together recycling players in France and is developing in Europe
If it is important to collect used textiles, it is even more important to develop the industrial value chain which can sort (sorting operators), transform (material processors) and sell the transformed products to customers (client industries of recycled materials). Today,
Recycle
brought together these different players in the value chain to accelerate this recycling process, in particular 65 sorting operators, including 15 outside France. Priority is given not to the quantity of actors on this platform but to their quality and their effective contribution to recycling, such as circular.fashion (Germany), partner of the Herewear project and active member of the TCBL network. A public spirit as much as an industrial and living functioning of this recycling community, values that we support, obviously!
####BusinessLocal
HEREWEAR
Model communities to draw inspiration from
Nothing is impossible when it comes to fighting for the future of bio-sourced, local and circular textiles.
The local community of Naples is an example of a quadruple helix network that joined the TCBL network and began to influence our community in the Herewear project. It is centered on a research laboratory at the Luigi Vanvitelli University of Aversa, near the city of Naples in the Campania region. The laboratory had already experimented with weaving and knitting bio-fibers based on various materials, and is already active in the local area, e.g. in collaboration with Re Mida, a local NGO focused on creative recycling, the local start-up S’Arte selling recycled clothing, and a local grassroots action group (publicly sponsored rural networks) to explore nature's fibers and dyes.
####ShortCuts
From waste to art
A fascinating creation of nine textile sculptures, made from controversial materials considered waste, can be seen in Le Marais, Paris. This second edition of Future Shock with Imruh Asha is aimed at creatives and professionals working in the fashion industry. Rather than blaming the individual, this work seeks to provoke a conversation between people in the industry, using creativity to show that a joint effort can pave the way for change.
####ShortCuts
Against the gender equality crisis, a Global Acceleration Plan from the Generation Equality Forum 2021
THE Generation Equality Forum 2021 took place at a critical time. Covid-19 has exacerbated existing gender inequalities, with reports of increased violence against women, as well as greater negative economic impacts caused by both increased unpaid care and the fact that women work in more precarious, lower paid and informal jobs. Women of color, indigenous women, and youth face compounded risks and barriers, and the results of Generation Equality Forum offer a crucial opportunity to address them.
####ShortCuts
Povera Slow Design: give new life to your tights
There Fast Fashion, it's the fashion for throwaways, the fashion for clothing that doesn't last and is of low quality. Polyamide tights, champions of planned obsolescence in the textile field, are the perfect example: they are easily thrown away and replaced because they deteriorate quickly. 104 million tights, which is equivalent to more than 7,000 tonnes of tights (the weight of the Eiffel Tower), are thrown away each year in France. As they have no real recycling solution, they are buried or burned and thus pollute our planet (study of the HOP association, Stop Planned Obsolescence, published in April 2018).
####ShortCuts
ThredUp and Madewell, partners for good
Since 2019, fashion brand Madewell (born 1937, part of the J.Crew Group) has partnered with resale-as-a-service (RaaS) provider thredUP to test sustainability issues. Since July, they have launched a pilot program, Madewell Forever, which will allow shoppers to purchase pre-owned Madewell denim for the first time ever in stores as well as online, so it doesn't end up in landfills. That " will extend the life of the product up to two years ", said Liz Hershfield, vice-president of sustainable development.
####MonAgendaTextile
Ethical Fashion Triathlon
November 8-9, 2021
Conference center - place du Front Populaire, 93300 Aubervilliers
More information : facebook.com/association.universal.love
THE Ethical Fashion Triathlon, Let's go !
Under the patronage of the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports, in partnership with ADEME (agency for ecological transition) and the support of the eco-organization REFASHION, UNIVERSAL LOVE is launching the
Ethical Fashion Triathlon
, organized with the support of the Campus Mode of the Île-de-France region.
Concretely, more than 400 students from around ten schools, vocational and technical high schools from the Fashion Campus in the Île-de-France region will come together on November 8 and 9, for the launch of the competition: Fashion, Sport and Recycling.
A mixed program of conferences, visit to the exhibition
The other side of my look
, what impact do my clothes have on the planet? and collaborative workshops will be offered to them in order to raise awareness of ethical and committed fashion for the environment and people.
The fashion industry must change and to succeed together in this transition towards sustainable and circular fashion, we must raise awareness and train the youngest, the future players in tomorrow's fashion.
First fashion industry roundtable in Athens on #sustainable and #ethical fashion.
November 11, a day focused on industrial innovation. 450 participants were present at the 2018 innovation competition.
For more information : atctex.org/Tun-Tex
On November 12 and 13, international research results on 15 themes linked to contemporary textile materials and their possible industrialization.
For more information : atctex.org/cirat
the meeting place for Made in France, in the spotlight at Who's Next and Première Vision trade shows
This is the trend that attracts 50% more visitors each year. It allows manufacturers and distributors to imagine a relocated sector and to show with some success that this bet is possible. Because TCBL strongly encourages these relocations, we encourage you to visit their sites: Mif expo | Who’s Next | FirstVision
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