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Press SupplyCompass Partners with The Woolmark Company to Launch Wool Supply Chains and Guide
SupplyCompass Partners with The Woolmark Company to Launch Wool Supply Chains and Guide

We're thrilled to announce our partnership with The Woolmark Company, the global authority on wool. Together, we are setting up trusted wool supply chains through a phased roll-out, as well as launching a wool guide to help brands launch new categories of wool products. 

by Roxane Nichols

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Events In Conversation With Queen of Raw: Webinar Recap
In Conversation With Queen of Raw: Webinar Recap

We recently hosted a webinar with Stephanie Benedetto, Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, an NYC-based technology company with a marketplace solution that matches fashion organizations looking to offload excess fabrics with buyers interested in high quality sustainable and affordable textiles.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

5 min read

Press SupplyCompass Partners with The Woolmark Company to Launch Wool Supply Chains and Guide
SupplyCompass Partners with The Woolmark Company to Launch Wool Supply Chains and Guide

We're thrilled to announce our partnership with The Woolmark Company, the global authority on wool. Together, we are setting up trusted wool supply chains through a phased roll-out, as well as launching a wool guide to help brands launch new categories of wool products. 

by Roxane Nichols
Materials The Latest Innovations in Wool
The Latest Innovations in Wool

Think you know wool? Think again. These innovative product developments will change the way you work with wool. From innovations reducing the impact of end products, to driving the adoption of cleaner process and technologies within the supply chain, this is Merino wool, but not as you know it.

by Lisa Griplas

6 mins

Storytellers

Flora Davidson
Flora Davidson

Co-Founder at SupplyCompass

Flora is Co-Founder of SupplyCompass. She remains passionate about harnessing the power of technology to encourage better collaboration, drive efficiency and make sustainable production accessible to fashion brands and supply chains across the globe.

Aly Tobin
Aly Tobin

Guest Contributor

Aly is a footwear and accessories designer from London College of Fashion with a specialised focus on disassembly and circularity within footwear design. Since graduating she has worked for Stella McCartney, Two Degrees, McQ Alexander McQueen and Ganni.

Brooke Roberts-Islam
Brooke Roberts-Islam

Guest Contributor

Brooke Roberts-Islam is an award-winning digital knitwear designer and consultant and Co-Founder of BRIA. She is also a "fashion-tech" and sustainability writer for Forbes.com, Chaos 69, Eco Age and Techstyler—a publishing platform she founded—sharing opinions and interviews from the crossroads of these sectors.

Nayanika Bharadwaj
Nayanika Bharadwaj

Sustainability and Marketing at SupplyCompass

Nayanika is a designer, writer and illustrator with experience across design activism, sustainable supply chains, craft production, and circular economies. She graduated from the prestigious MA Fashion Futures program at London College of Fashion with a Distinction in 2019.

Margo Camus
Margo Camus

Guest Contributor

Margo is a global marketing manager with a focus on fashion, sustainability, innovation and partnerships. She has experience spanning across startup, agency, and client-side environments globally across Australia, Europe and Asia, and thrives working with diverse and dynamic teams to make a difference.

Lisa Griplas
Lisa Griplas

Guest Contributor

Lisa Griplas is The Woolmark Company’s Global Editor, where she has worked for close to a decade. Her passion for conscious consumption and igniting positive change within the fashion and textile industry aligns with the ethos of the global authority on wool, creating content across the supply chain to build demand for nature’s original eco fibre – Merino wool.

Elly Strang
Elly Strang

Guest Contributor

Elly Strang is digital editor at noissue, which provides custom, sustainable packaging at low minimum order quantities. She’s passionate about e-commerce, the art of branding, and ways businesses can reduce their impact on the world.

Srishti Dhawan
Srishti Dhawan

Head of Supply Chain

Srishti has 11+ years of experience working in the fashion value chain including manufacturing, retail, operations, and strategy consulting. She has worked with global retailers on large-scale projects to set up responsive supply chains and implement technologies i.e. PLM and ERP systems.

Gus Bartholomew
Gus Bartholomew

Co-Founder & CEO at SupplyCompass

Gus is responsible for driving sustainable growth across the business. He believes that the best route to creating seismic change within the global fashion manufacturing industry is to find virtuous loops that drive improvements for people, planet and profit.

Roxane Nichols
Roxane Nichols

Head of PR at SupplyCompass

Roxane has been delivering integrated PR campaigns for world number ones and challenger brands for over a decade. With a career that spans the UK and Australia, she has extensive experience in consumer and corporate PR, experiential and events, and influencer engagement.

Hannah Badminton
Hannah Badminton

Senior Account Manager at SupplyCompass

With a background in sustainability and responsible production, Hannah has project management experience in factories in Nepal and Cambodia. She has managed 20+ brands with SupplyCompass and is focused on continually discovering materials and processes less harmful to producers and the planet.

Top stories

Materials Perspectives <i>Perspectives</i> from Our Leather Manufacturing Partner
Perspectives from Our Leather Manufacturing Partner

Leather is one of the most fascinating and desirable materials used in the fashion industry. Recently, we caught up with Sundar, one of our trusted leather manufacturing partners in Tamil Nadu, India for a quick Q&A.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

5 min read

Platform Introducing our Costings Feature
Introducing our Costings Feature

We’ve launched a new way of keeping up with costings allowing you to cut through the endless rounds of costing and negotiations with a simple, easy-to-use dashboard.

by SupplyCompass

3 min read

Production Fashion Supply Chains Emerging out of COVID-19
Fashion Supply Chains Emerging out of COVID-19

As the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic slowly recede, fashion supply chains across the world are finding new priorities and ways to reorganize themselves.⁠ SupplyCompass, Santander and Inspectorio discuss the road ahead, and what fashion supply chains should focus on as they look to rebuild with a fresh, new lens.

by Srishti Dhawan

8 min read

Features

Tech Talks

Spotlights software and technology companies at the forefront of cutting-edge innovation through the lens of fashion and supply chains.

Tech Talks <i>Tech Talks</i> with Stephanie Benedetto, CEO & Co-Founder of Queen of Raw
Tech Talks with Stephanie Benedetto, CEO & Co-Founder of Queen of Raw

SupplyCompass speaks to Stephanie Benedetto, CEO & Co-Founder of Queen of Raw. Queen of Raw matches buyers with sellers, where unused textiles are sold quickly and easily at lower price points, giving people access to materials that they never had before

by Margo Camus

9 min read

Tech Talks <i>Tech Talks</i> with Boryana Uzunova, Co-Founder of Kool And Konscious
Tech Talks with Boryana Uzunova, Co-Founder of Kool And Konscious

SupplyCompass sits down with fashion entrepreneur and Forbes ‘30 under 30’ Boryana Uzunova, Co-Founder of Kool And Konscious, a sustainable and ethical global fashion marketplace.

by Margo Camus

9 min read

Perspectives

SupplyCompass series that focuses on our supply chain partners operating at the intersection between innovation, efficiency and sustainability, to help shape more inclusive conversations in the fashion industry.

Perspectives <i>Perspectives</i> from Re:Down
Perspectives from Re:Down

SupplyCompass speaks to Eric Firmann, Co-Founder of Re: Down, a business recycling post-consumer down and feathers for insulation in the apparel and bedding industries. He walks us through their innovative process, how they have coped through the pandemic, and what his visions for a circular industry are.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

3 min read

Perspectives <i>Perspectives</i> from Enviu’s Reweave Venture Studio
Perspectives from Enviu’s Reweave Venture Studio

SupplyCompass speaks to Marieke Lenders, the Program Lead of Circular Apparel at Enviu. Our conversation focuses on Enviu’s Reweave Venture Studio, an initiative building disruptive and impactful ventures looking to drive the fashion sector towards a circular and fair value chain in India.

by Margo Camus

7 min read

In Conversation With

Highlights fashion businesses from around the globe who are balancing people, profit and planet, and are leading the way when it comes to responsible business.

In Conversation With Stuart McCullough, Managing Director of The Woolmark Company

SupplyCompass speaks to Stuart McCullough, Managing Director of The Woolmark Company—the global authority on wool. The Woolmark Company connects the global apparel and textile supply chain on behalf of about 60,000 woolgrowers that help fund the not-for-profit company.

by Margo Camus

6 mins

In Conversation With Josh Bowden, Co-Founder of noissue

SupplyCompass speaks to Josh Bowden, Co-Founder of noissue, a New Zealand-headquartered sustainable packaging company that’s changing the status quo when it comes to e-commerce packaging.

by Margo Camus

5 mins

In Conversation With Nicola Harlem, Founder of The Curated

SupplyCompass speaks to The Curated, a Scandinavian-based company focusing on timeless, high quality staples. Primarily known for their coats—which are quickly taking over the Instagram world—they focus on sustainable, affordable luxury and minimal elegance for women. 

by Margo Camus

5 mins

In Conversation With Gordon Renouf, Co-Founder & CEO of Good On You

SupplyCompass speaks to Good On You, the Emma Watson-approved world-leading source of trusted brand ratings, articles and expertise on ethical and sustainable fashion. Since 2015, they have built a database of thousands of fashion brands, all assessed against their robust rating system for their impact on people, the planet and animals.

by Margo Camus

9 min read

In Conversation With Gertjan Meijer, CCO of Arch & Hook

SupplyCompass sits down with Gertjan Meijer, CCO of Arch & Hook, to talk about how the company began, their sustainable products, the effects COVID-19 has had on their business, and what sustainability means to them.

by Margo Camus

8 min

Platform updates

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Platform Announcing our Deadstock Fabric Partnership with Queen of Raw
Announcing our Deadstock Fabric Partnership with Queen of Raw

We're thrilled to announce our partnership with Queen of Raw, as featured in Vogue Business. By joining forces, SupplyCompass Platform users will be able to access a myriad of deadstock fabric options via the SupplyCompass Deadstock Library to design more sustainable collections, create value from waste, and champion circularity.

by Flora Davidson

5 min read

Platform Introducing our Costings Feature
Introducing our Costings Feature

We’ve launched a new way of keeping up with costings allowing you to cut through the endless rounds of costing and negotiations with a simple, easy-to-use dashboard.

by SupplyCompass

3 min read

Platform Introducing our free Moodboard Tool
Introducing our free Moodboard Tool

Our Moodboard Tool is free to use and helps teams design together digitally, while they can't be together physically as the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic.

by SupplyCompass

3 min read

Production

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Production How to Minimise your Impact as a Fashion Brand Through Sustainable Packaging
How to Minimise your Impact as a Fashion Brand Through Sustainable Packaging

Our partner noissue provides inspiration around sustainable packaging for brands looking to level up. Packaging is one of the areas where people interact with your brand the most, so it can have a big impact when you switch out a non-sustainable option for something greener.

by Elly Strang

5 min

Production Fashion Supply Chains Emerging out of COVID-19
Fashion Supply Chains Emerging out of COVID-19

As the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic slowly recede, fashion supply chains across the world are finding new priorities and ways to reorganize themselves.⁠ SupplyCompass, Santander and Inspectorio discuss the road ahead, and what fashion supply chains should focus on as they look to rebuild with a fresh, new lens.

by Srishti Dhawan

8 min read

Production The Production Process Guide: What is a Tech Pack?
The Production Process Guide: What is a Tech Pack?

A tech pack is a document containing all the technical information about your product. Find out how to create your own in just minutes using our platform.

by SupplyCompass

3 min read

Circularity

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Circularity Recycling and the Circularity Conundrum
Recycling and the Circularity Conundrum

At the 9th Future Fabrics Expo held recently in London, SupplyCompass attended a seminar which sought to examine circularity through the lens of recycling.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

5 min read

Circularity The State of Packaging: Paper and Card
The State of Packaging: Paper and Card

Traditional paper is made from wood pulp, and although it’s possible to make paper from other types of plant such as cotton, bamboo and hemp, about 95% of the raw material used to make paper comes from trees.

by Flora Davidson

4 min read

Circularity Footwear Design for Disassembly and Recycling
Footwear Design for Disassembly and Recycling

The need for circularity and closed-loop systems is gaining increasing traction in the fashion industry with major commitments by many industry behemoths.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

3 min read

Materials

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Materials The Latest Innovations in Wool
The Latest Innovations in Wool

Think you know wool? Think again. These innovative product developments will change the way you work with wool. From innovations reducing the impact of end products, to driving the adoption of cleaner process and technologies within the supply chain, this is Merino wool, but not as you know it.

by Lisa Griplas

6 mins

Materials Biomaterials in Fashion: When Science and Design Collide
Biomaterials in Fashion: When Science and Design Collide

With technological advances comes material innovation. Biomaterials can be found in multidisciplinary industries with different functions and uses.

by Aly Tobin

4 min read

Materials Exploring Leather Grades and Leather Production
Exploring Leather Grades and Leather Production

Leather has been around since the beginning of mankind. Hunting animals and using their skins has been part of all cultures throughout human history due to its durability, accessibility, and variety of uses.

by Aly Tobin

4 min read

Technology

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Technology 5 Tips to Build Efficiency by Digitalising Supply Chains
5 Tips to Build Efficiency by Digitalising Supply Chains

As COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of uncertainty and anxiety across the world, the fashion industry is sinking in a quagmire of its rundown systems that urgently need a complete digital transformation. Here are 5 tips to help you digitalize your supply chains.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

5 min read

Technology Fashion’s Tech Awakening: Time for Transformation
Fashion’s Tech Awakening: Time for Transformation

In the short space of 6 weeks, the famously fast-moving fashion industry has been forced to slow down, or in some cases, come to a screeching halt.

by Flora Davidson

4 min read

Technology Does A Sustainable Fashion Industry Depend On Digital Transformation?
Does A Sustainable Fashion Industry Depend On Digital Transformation?

To discuss the challenges of digital transformation in the supply chain, Brooke Roberts-Islam, Founder of Techstyler, moderated a panel discussion with Depop, Farfetch, Everpress and SupplyCompass.

by Brooke Roberts-Islam

6 min read

Webinars & Events

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Events In Conversation With Queen of Raw: Webinar Recap
In Conversation With Queen of Raw: Webinar Recap

We recently hosted a webinar with Stephanie Benedetto, Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, an NYC-based technology company with a marketplace solution that matches fashion organizations looking to offload excess fabrics with buyers interested in high quality sustainable and affordable textiles.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

5 min read

Events What Makes a Sustainable Fashion Brand? Webinar Recap
What Makes a Sustainable Fashion Brand? Webinar Recap

We recently hosted a webinar with the #1 sustainability ratings and discovery platform for fashion, Good On You, and the online luxury fashion retailer, Farfetch. Our panellists sought to explore how the critical growth of sustainability in fashion is shaped by consumer choices and business innovation.

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

5 min read

Events Leveraging Technology to Make Better Decisions: Webinar Recap
Leveraging Technology to Make Better Decisions: Webinar Recap

We recently hosted a webinar with Flexport, a digital freight-forwarding platform. Our panellists sought to unpack how employing digital technologies and harnessing the power of data across the supply chain can help fashion brands make better decisions—integral for the fashion brand of the future. 

by Nayanika Bharadwaj

5 min read

Our Guides

We have rounded up the top fashion industry supply chain certifications and standards, including leading audits, to help guide you through the sustainable production landscape. These include those that cover fair labour practices, social concerns, animal welfare and environmental impact.

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Everything you need to know about cotton: key material properties, the difference between conventional and organic, and how to design a collection with this coveted material.

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Not all leather is equal in price, quality, texture or use. This guide will take you through the key considerations when designing a collection with leather; including the full leather supply chain process and exploring the different types of leather available.

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Companies and consumers are fast becoming more open to leather alternatives with the rise of environmental and societal concerns, as well as animal welfare. Including an overview on PU, fish skin, recycled, coconut, apple, pineapple, mushroom, cork, cactus and wine leather – we've got you covered.

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Our latest guide explores the rPET process, the environmental impact of polyester, the difference between virgin and recycled, and what to consider when designing a collection with polyester.

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Viscose is a man-made cellulosic fibre and the third most commonly used in the world. Often seen as a vegan alternative to silk due to its properties, viscose can have severe impacts on forests, workers and local communities. Learn more about what to consider while developing a collection with viscose.

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In partnership with The Woolmark Company
We've joined forces to develop a comprehensive guide to cover everything you need to know about wool. We also highlight the considerations for designing a collection with wool, the environmental, animal and social impacts, The Woolmark Company's certification, and the latest innovations in wool.

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