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www.images-magazine.com JANUARY 2021 images 09 INDUSTRY NEWS Royal College of Art-led consortium awarded £5.4m by UKRI to establish Textiles Circularity Centre A Royal College of Art-led consortium has been awarded a grant of £5.4m by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to establish a Textiles Circularity Centre to help enable the transition towards a more ‘circular’ economy. Funded by the UK government as part of the UKRI’s Strategic Priorities fund, the Textiles Circularity Centre will be one of five Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centres helping industries across the UK to tackle waste, boost recycling and build back greener from coronavirus. The new Textiles Circularity Centre aims to reduce a reliance on imported and environmentally and ethically impactful clothing materials, and develop new ‘designed and made in the UK’ industries. It will lead research to turn post-consumer textiles, crop residues and household waste into renewable materials for use in textiles, developing new UK-based supply chains from waste management and farming through to textile production and design and consumer experience. imagesmag.uk/Textiles-Circularity- Centre The Pantone Colours of the Year 2021 are… Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Pantone’s Colour of the Year selection for 2021 has been revealed as Pantone 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and Pantone 13-0647 Illuminating. The two independent colours come together to create an aspirational colour pairing of yellow and grey, explained Pantone. “Illuminating is a bright and cheerful yellow sparkling with vivacity, a warming yellow shade imbued with solar power, while Ultimate Gray is emblematic of solid and dependable elements, which are everlasting and provide a firm foundation. “A marriage of strength and optimism, Ultimate Gray and Illuminating do not have to be used in equal proportions, either colour can take precedence whether for apparel, beauty, home furnishings, product design or packaging.” imagesmag.uk/Pantone- Colour-2021 Boho and Bowie Boho and Bowie has designed and screen printed fundraising T-shirts for a charity promoting the long-term conservation of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in London. imagesmag.uk/Boho-Bowie-Dinos Pantone 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and 13-0647 Illuminating “come together to create an aspirational colour pairing” Textile Exchange introduces Biodiversity Benchmark tool The Textile Exchange’s Corporate Fibre and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) programme has launched a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity. The Biodiversity Benchmark will enable companies to understand their impacts and dependencies on nature in their materials sourcing strategies, chart a pathway to delivering positive biodiversity outcomes, and benchmark their progress. The CFMB programme tracks corporate fibre and materials sourcing practices, aiming to mobilise the fashion and textile industry to accelerate their uptake of preferred materials, such as organic cotton, recycled polyester and man-made cellulosics. Around 200 brands and retailers, including H&M Group, Patagonia and The North Face, currently participate in the benchmarking programme, which is now open to suppliers and manufacturers for the first time. imagesmag.uk/Biodiversity- Benchmark The Biodiversity Benchmark tool will help the fashion and textile industry to understand the impact its raw material sourcing has on nature