Advertising & Marketing
Cocoa bean haute couture dress combines technology with sustainability
The 3D-printed dress is made from waste cocoa bean husks.
Fashion and Beauty Innovations
Innovation sectors > Fashion and Beauty
Innovation has always fuelled the fashion and beauty industries. Bringing consumers the newest and most exciting products is the key for commercial success and brand longevity. Today, innovation is also helping the sectors act in more sustainable ways, reinventing everything from products and packaging, to supply chains and marketing. In the Springwise library, we feature solutions that address all of these and more – from designer handbags made from grape ‘leather’, to custom lipstick designed and dispensed via AI.
Explore our most recent Fashion and Beauty innovations below
Fashion & Beauty
Rescuing and upcycling unused fabrics
A B2B platform helps to reduce textile waste while giving suppliers the opportunity to make the most of their unused fabric.
Fashion & Beauty
Protecting Florida’s coral reefs by making leather out of lionfish
A startup is using fashion to combat the highly invasive species damaging biodiversity on the reefs of Florida’s Atlantic coast.
Fashion & Beauty
Comfortable office clothing made from used fishing nets
A new brand is designing sustainable and comfortable loungewear that is chic enough to be worn to the office.
Retail
A sustainable luxury discovery platform for independent Black-owned brands
The platform is re-imagining the retail industry’s cultural landscape by creating spaces for independent businesses of the African diaspora to thrive.
Fashion & Beauty
Circular production process uses industrial fruit waste for vegan leather
Most of the production processes and materials for the fabric come from within a 30-mile radius.
Fashion & Beauty
A new fruit waste fabric is strong, versatile, and waterproof
The biodegradable material is used soft or hard and can be dyed and printed.
Fashion & Beauty
Industrial biowaste turned into leather, fabric, and more
A naturally occurring mycelium is used to make a new type of sustainable material.
Fashion & Beauty
Technology company brings ‘Resale-as-a-Service’ to fashion brands
Whether you’re a brand looking to move inventory or a shopper looking for a deal, Reflaunt is changing the way we shop for secondhand clothes.
Fashion & Beauty
The world’s first cell cultivated leather
A startup has developed a process that can produce many leather bags from a handful of cow cells.
Fashion & Beauty
Cellulose-producing bacteria weave compostable textiles
Strong and lightweight, the fabrics can be coloured without chemicals and grown in any shape.
Arts & Entertainment
A pop-up exhibition highlights material recycling
The collaborative exhibition showcases how discarded garments can be upcycled into new, desirable pieces of fashion.