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Fashion as protective shield: are antiviral outfits on the rise?

In the health and sports sectors, antiviral functions have been known and used for a long time. In fashion, they were previously thought of as superfluous. That has changed since the pandemic. Back in 2020, at the very beginning of the pandemic, a picture of Naomi Campbell went around the world: the model was photographed at an airport in a...

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Protective clothing: three revolutionary textile technologies

The upcoming trend will be protective clothing. This is a point on which many trend experts agree. So cocooning volumes and robust materials are in, but protective clothing doesn't stop at styling. FashionUnited has listed three recent textile technologies that aim to protect us. Highly buoyant swimwear By coating cotton with a three-component...

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Medical gear modelled on Chinese runway

This season's must-have is not a flashy designer handbag but breathable, disposable protective medical gear -- as seen on models striding along a catwalk in northeastern China. Although the country's economy was battered by coronavirus lockdowns early this year, industries quickly bounced back: exports of medical products like masks have...

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Project Plan B urges PPE industry to consider Covid-19 environmental crisis

Plymouth-based Project Plan B is calling on designers, product developers and the PPE and workwear industry to consider the environmental impact of their garments and think about products’ end of working life, which has become more apparent due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 90 percent of UK workwear already ends up in landfill or...

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The making of PPE: From designers to the frontline Part 2

How are designers and companies able to transition seemingly overnight to produce PPE at such an impactful scale? From LVMH producing hand sanitizer instead of perfume to Brooks Brothers making up to 150,000 surgical masks per day, designers and factories are doing everything they can during this critical time to give back to their communities....

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The making of PPE: From designers to the frontline Part 1

Although the fashion and design industries have been hit hard by the devastating economic impact brought on by Covid-19, they have also been among the first ones to pull together the resources at hand to make immense contributions to the global relief effort. From LVMH producing hand sanitizer instead of perfume to Brooks Brothers making up to...