This Week's Fashion and Sustainability Updates
- Amelia Short
- Mar 28, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 2, 2025
From exciting sustainability partnerships to buying clothes straight out of the desert, here are your 5 updates of the week:
Kaia Gerber x Bleusalt collab
The supermodel has launched her second collaboration with the Malibu-based fashion label Bleusalt, with ten per cent of proceeds going to the nonprofit A Sense of Home.
The collection features two althleisure pieces: the ‘Luxe Kaia Crop Skater’ and ‘Luxe Kaia Pant’. Created in Bleusalt’s signature ultrasoft sustainable fabrics, the new editions are made using cotton, modal and spandex, of sustainable and botanic origin, and produced in the USA. There are three colourways to choose from: black, navy, and coco, catering to sizes XXS-2XL, and retailing for $150 (£116).
Bleusalt was founded in 2017 and strives to make “the softest, most sustainable luxury essentials using eco-friendly materials”. The company focuses on sustainable sourcing, with fabrics composed of “natural, biodegradable fibers, ensuring a minimal environmental impact”. Bleusalt has been popular with celebrities such as Cindy Crawford and Meghan Markle, who sparked the sale of over 300 t-shirts after wearing one on her new Netflix show ‘With Love, Meghan’.
Images: @bluesalt via Instagram
A Sense of Home is a Los Angeles-founded charity whose mission is “to prevent homelessness by creating first-ever homes and a community for youth aging out of foster care”. Bleusalt is one of many companies supporting the nonprofit, alongside Google, UPS and Disney. Since its inception in 2015, A Sense of Home has created over 900 homes for vulnerable young people.
Finale of the 2025 Sustasia Fashion Prize
The competition, initiated by the Shanghai Fashion Designers’ Association (SDFA) and sustainability agency yehyehyeh, will feature eight finalists from across Asia. The finale will be held in Shanghai during fashion week.
According to yehyehyeh, the event “aims to promote sustainable practices and accelerate innovation in the fashion industry in Asia.” The agency’s founder, Shaway Yeh, said: “We would like to encourage next-gen talents working with next-gen marerials to design outfits which are fashion-forward and future-proof, crafting garments that set new standards in style while championing sustainability." The competition is open to young Asian designers aged 18-40 who have a minimum of three years’ experience in producing commercially available apparel.
One of the finalists is Phillipino designer Jayson ‘Jaggy’ Glarino, who last year saw one of his designs featured in the Vogue Threads exhibition in Paris.
Images: @jaggyglarino via Instagram; Artu Nepomuceno
Clothes from the Atacama desert waste mountains were sold online
The first ‘drop’, released on Re-commerce Atacama’s website, sold out in just five hours.
A partnership between VTEX (a digital commerce platform), Fashion Revolution Brazil (an environmental organisation), and Desierto Vestido (a textile waste organisation) allowed clothes to be selected, cleaned and repaired before they were sent to customers around the world. Mariano Gomide de Fario, CEO of VTEX, said: “We believe that every garment has a story and a purpose. Our mission is to rescue these garments and give them a second chance, raising awareness about the excessive consumerism that the current fashion industry pursues.”
Re-commerce Atacama was created to bring awareness to the ‘mountains’ of waste generated by the fashion industry in Chile, which are so large that they were visible in a picture taken from space in 2023, and around the world. According to Re-commerce Atacama, over 40 thousand tonnes of garments are dumped in the Chilean desert each year, many of which are brand new. The clothes themselves are free, with customers only paying for shipping.
Images: @desiertovestido_tarapaca and @fash_rev_brasil on Instagram; SkyFi
Puma and Re&Up announce their multi-year partnership
The sports brand is furthering its approach to sustainability, centring production around “integrating sustainability into every aspect of our manufacturing processes for all products – from the sourcing of raw materials to the manufacturing stage, both environmentally and socially”.
Puma has partnered with Portugal mens' football, Dua Lipa, and A$AP Rocky.
Images: @puma via Instagram
Re&Up is a “circular tech company” created in Türkiye, which boasts industry-first technologies which allow the recycling of most polycotton blends. Re&Up produces ‘Next-Gen’ cotton and polyester –materials which, despite being recycled, maintain “the same performance as virgin fibers”, according to its website. Its processes also use less water and CO2 compared with those of virgin fibres, and are 100% traceable.
Özgür Atsan, chief commercial officer at Re&Up, said: “Puma, as one of the most forward-thinking brands in the industry, shares our vision for closing the recycled material gap.” The partnership aligns with Puma Vision 2030 sustainability goals, which include plans to use 100% recycled polyester fabric.
Gabriela Hearst’s Paris fashion week show has caused controversy
The ethical and sustainability-focused brand's latest collection featured items made from fur and snakeskin. Pieces included a jacket, stole and coat made from real vintage fur, and accessories made from real python.
Images: @gabrielhearst via Instagram
Gabriela Heart’s Instagram account documented the creation of the ‘one-of a kind’ fur garments: “Repurposed vintage mink was unstitched and then painstainkingly reassembled by hand in a family-run atelier using classical intarsia techniques.”
The python pieces were created using skins provided by Inversa-a company that sources skins ‘humanely’ from invasive species which threaten the Greater Everglades ecosystem. The subtropical wilderness is the last of its kind in the United States, and spans 18 thousand-square miles, roughly the same size as the Dominican Republic.
Images: Re&Up; NPS Photo via Flikr
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