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).
Highlights
This paper presents a model for “the fashion design-driven biobased innovations” in a future circular system in which productive textile processes could nurture the industry’s transition to a sustainable and circular paradigm in the context of the circular bioeconomy
This paper discussed the framework of biobased material dimension in a circular fashion and reported innovators, in the three identified categories, presenting cases from the seed development to the scaling up of bio fabricated materials
Companies who engage in the biobased materials field are meeting different challenges in the fact that many new biomaterials, regardless of their origin and production, undergo further processing or blending with other materials during the production chain. These practices can deeply influence the circular dimension of the material itself, damaging its ability to be recycled and be positively returned to the production system. These radical new material innovations are constrained by the limitations imposed by research and development times and the difficulties associated with obtaining grants or funding
Summary
According to what has been discussed so far, this paper aims to attempt to model current design-led practices in the field of biobased materials in the textile and fashion industries. This work aims to answer the potential pathways to new textile materials, what they are made of, and how they should be produced to create a more sustainable material world
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