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Circular Fashion Week Pushes Singapore Toward Sustainability

Local eco-conscious brands and activists lead a citywide push for a smaller fashion footprint.

By Jing Yi Tan18 April 20263 min read
Circular Fashion Week Pushes Singapore Toward Sustainability
Look 01 — Sculptural tailoring photographed in Singapore. Photography: STRAITSG Studio

Singapore's Circular Fashion Week gathers businesses, innovators and creatives working to shrink the industry's environmental and social footprint.

Anchored by the Eco Fashion Weekend Awards and Fashion Showcase, led by a collective of activists and eco-conscious local brands. Beyond the showcase, the event's island-wide discounts and multi-brand shopping days give circular and secondhand labels a rare moment of retail visibility usually reserved for fast-turnover fashion. It's a modest event by international standards, but a telling one for a city whose fashion retail scene is otherwise dominated by mall culture and international brand flagships proof that Singapore's sustainability conversation in fashion has moved from panel discussions into actual shoppable events.

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Jing Yi Tan

Fashion editor and writer covering design, image-making and the creative networks connecting Southeast Asia.

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