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yoona.ai: Digital garment design to minimise production waste
Founded in 2020 by Anna Franziska Michel, an experienced fashion designer, artist and IT scientist, yoona.ai is disrupting the fashion sector with its software that creates infinite designs digitally without the production of physical garments, therefore saving corporate resources and allowing companies to minimise production waste.
SaltyCo: How the fashion industry can save freshwater
It takes 20,000 litres of freshwater to make 1kg of cotton, translating to around 2,700 litres to make just one cotton t-shirt. The #fashion industry has come under fire for its #cotton intensive farming, subsequently placing them as the second most # water-intensive industry globally.