Latest News

This spring, much of its collection uses the innovative Agraloop Biofibre, which is a high-quality natural material made from food-crop waste.

More and more circular textile innovations using ag-residue-based fibers are cropping up — we’ve seen fabric and accessories from companies such as Crop-a-Porter, Agraloop and Able Made, to name a few — and expect to see many more to come.

Circular Systems has announced that its Agraloop ™ 1.0 technology will be the first to convert stems from leftover CBD hemp crops into fibers that can be used in fashion products.

For Spring 2021, H&M takes another bold step in its sustainability efforts, leading the change within the fashion industry by upscaling new innovative materials such as Agraloop™ Biofibre™…

Sustainability for all! A Conscious collection made entirely from food crop waste, recycled cotton, organic linen and other more sustainable materials. Try on the future of fashion. Check out Agraloop BioFibre materials featured in the collection.

Los Angeles-based Circular Systems is converting the stalks from CBD hemp crop leftovers into new fibres.

Circular Systems co-founder and CEO Isaac Nichelson jokes that his company’s newest product, the Agraloop BioFibre, is a treasure crafted from trash.

“The women’s blazer made from Agraloop™ Hemp Biofibre™. The fabric felt lovely and smooth, it reminded me of silk.”

In addition, hemp-based fibers come from Agraloop, a company that manufactures textile fibers from fibrous food waste.

Each piece is made from a sustainably-sourced material that is itself made from waste, including one that transforms food crop waste into a natural fibre

"For AW20, we really wanted to be trailblazers - pushing the limits of creativity and sustainable fashion - by focusing on waste"

…Features clothes and accessories made from innovative waste materials like AgraLoop made from food crop waste

This we have accomplished with a little bit of help from old and new friends like Hemp Biofibre™

Agraloop™ is a process that transforms food waste into a new and innovative type of biofiber.

…New award-winning “natural” fibre called Agraloop, which is conjured out of food crop waste

Agraloop Hemp Biofibre, which won a Global Change Award in 2018, makes its commercial debut worldwide

For this collection, H&M is using cutting-edge innovation, namely Agraloop’s Hemp Biofibre, which won the Global Change Award in 2018.

Blazer, $209 - Material: Agraloop BioFibre, organic cotton, TENCEL Lyocell

This year the brand is using two new materials: Hemp Biofibre™, made from oilseed hemp crop waste, and Naia™ Renew, a cellulosic fibre sourced from circular content.

As mentioned previously, most items in the collection are made from sustainable materials such as Agraloop Hemp Biofibre, made from food crop waste.

Hemp Biofibre™, made from oilseed hemp crop waste, and Naia™ Renew, a cellulosic fibre sourced from circular content

For AW20, there’s Agraloop Hemp Biofiber…which converts food crop waste into a new natural fiber, in this case oil-seed hemp.

Some of the pieces have been crafted using the Agraloop process that converts oilseed hemp crop waste into a new natural called Hemp Biofibre

The workwear pieces crafted from Agraloop Hemp BioFibre – a natural fibre made from oil-seed hemp

The materials and initiatives that are new to H&M are Agraloop Hemp Biofibre, Eastman Naia Renew, We Are SpinDye and Made of Air.

Agraloop, a 2018 H&M Foundation Global Change Award first-prize winner, converts food-crop waste, like leftovers from oilseed hemp, into biofiber, a new natural fiber, launching worldwide with this collection.

Between an escalating global pandemic, unabating racial turmoil and increasingly divisive politics that have at times spiraled into violence, 2020 is proving to be one of the most dramatic and difficult years.