KERING FOCUSES ON NATURAL AND SUSTAINABLE TEXTILE DYES

Exposition Paris

“We are rethinking our actions with a view to continue to develop tomorrow, successfully and sustainably, whereas serving to our sector to rework and contribute to assembly the social and environmental challenges of our era,” explains François-Henri Pinault. With this strategy, the group created a Materials Innovation Lab (MIL) in 2013 devoted to sustainable fabrics and textiles to speed up the event of other dyeing methods based mostly on pure processes. The posh behemoth is subsequently partnering with Albini_next and the Austrian biotechnology company Vienna Textile Lab to test using microorganisms from crops and mineral supplies for numerous textile purposes. The dyes are thus microbial in origin and are capable of dye cotton and other pure fibers with out using any chemical compounds. “Together, we will achieve incredibly high ranges of innovation and sustainability, as we are doing with the transformation of microbial colors into progressive new dyes, a extra sustainable various to standard artificial colors. It’s an extended course of: it takes effort and time, however collectively we'll obtain unprecedented outcomes,” says Albini Group President, Stefano Albini.