FibreLab Highly Commended Progress Towards Circularity Marie Claire Sustainability Awards 2023

“When we donate our clothing, we are oftentimes outsourcing the burden of waste management to regions of the world with less resources to handle it.”

Postcarbon lab, founded by Dian-Jen Lin and Hannes Hulstaert is a sustainability and biohacking consultancy focusing on transdisciplinary design through research.  This lab reframes real-world problems with transformative tech and out-of-the-box thinking.

Blackhorse Lane Ateliers founded in 2016 is a company specializing in manufacturing raw organic denim. The company has three main areas of focus, manufacturing denim, collaborations with similar brands, and offering production and sampling services for companies. 

Fashion for Good is a Sweden-based platform for sustainable fashion innovation. Their aim is to take the fashion industry away from the ‘take-make-waste’ model to a circular good fashion approach. 

Created in 2013 by Carry Somers due to the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, Fashion Revolution is a global movement. It is a movement, for the people, by the people. It is open to people from manufacturers, policy makers, academics, writers down to consumers, fashion lovers and students. 

Gnome house is a volunteer led community space concentrating in several aspects to tie together members of the community in Walthamstow in East London. The enterprise not only offers a space for its users but also includes a printing studio, meeting room, exhibition space, and a soon to be opened café.