CIRCULAZE Virtual Trend Tour Fashion & Textile II – Resortecs

Resortecs

Founder/s: 

Cédric Vanhoeck and Vanessa Counaert

Based In: 

Brussels, Belgium

What They Do: Away from the glamour of the catwalk and magazine spreads, the fashion industry’s dirty secrets have been revealed to the world, front and center is the wastage. Every second, one truck full of textile is wasted across the earth. And when it comes to being wasted, these are not destined for recycling, but for the landfill, with just 1% of all garments recycled. It’s not that this material couldn’t be recycled and reused elsewhere. It could, but was ineffective and laborious — or at least it was. Resortecs’ SmartStitch thread dissolves to make it easy to take apart clothes for reuse or recycling, and their thermal disassembly system Smart Disassembly speeds up the process, bringing a new lease of life to textiles. Circularity and fashion need not only apply to the Spring/Summer and Winter/Fall seasons, the future of fashion is circular.