📢 This year’s Textile Exchange Conference is now open for registration! Our annual event brings together fashion and textile brands, supply system partners, innovators, farmers, non-profit organizations, academics, and more. Join us in Lisbon or online from October 13–17, 2025, for three days of curated, collective learning, followed by field trips to local material producers. Under the theme of Shifting Landscapes, this year’s agenda will drive home the urgency for our industry to rapidly adapt to changing climates both to mitigate risk and unlock opportunities for systems transformation. Successful evolution will mean looking to those on the ground, from farmers to second-hand clothing sellers, who are already shifting their ways of working to fit the challenges unfolding locally. Listening to perspectives from across the supply system, the 2025 Textile Exchange Conference will unpack place-based insights into adaptation and how they can be effectively integrated into global strategies for climate and nature. We’re proud to welcome FibreTrace® as the title sponsor of the 2025 Textile Exchange Conference. As the industry looks to adapt and transform its systems in line with this year’s theme, more robust traceability will be a key enabler. By embedding advanced technology directly into raw fibers, FibreTrace® offers real-time verification and transparency from source to shelf. Their progressive approach is helping to shape more credible systems and strengthen accountability in a changing industry. (fb)

🎧 This Earth Day, listen to the landscapes behind our materials. We’ve created a 3-minute soundscape using field recordings from places where materials like cotton, wool, mohair, and alpaca are produced. Take a journey through the buzz of biodiversity in Brazil’s tropical forests, the dawn chorus in South Africa, the windy plains of Türkiye, the late afternoon bustle of a farm in India, and beyond. It’s a moment to appreciate the diverse ecosystems at the foundation of the fashion industry, and to reflect on the deep connection between fashion and nature. Because to truly motivate action, we first need to pause and recognize the value of what we’re trying to protect. Soundscape created by Anton Spice Visuals by Ana Projects (fb)