Materials, Durability & Circularity
In our 2025 strategy “Embrace durability and circularity” is our aspiration to increase use of more sustainable materials, increase use of 3D samples, prepare design for disassembly and recycle leftover and surplus fabric. In contrast to fast fashion, the Garment Division embraces the principles of slow fashion. The philosophy of slow fashion includes reliance on trusted supply chains, smaller-scale production, traditional crafting techniques, and using local materials where possible. Slow fashion attempts to convince consumers to buy fewer clothes of better quality and to keep them for longer. “In resent years, significant attention has been directed towards the environmental impact of the textile and clothing industry with valid reasoning as “Clothing accounts for between 2 % and 10 % of the environmental impact of EU consumption. This impact is often felt in third countries, as most production takes place abroad. The production of raw materials, spinning them into fibers, weaving fabrics and dyeing require enormous amounts of water and chemicals, including pesticides for growing raw materials such as cotton. Consumer use also has a large environmental footprint due to the water, energy and chemicals used in washing, tumble drying and ironing, as well as to microplastics shed into the environment. Less than half of used clothes are collected for reuse or recycling when they are no longer needed, and only 1 % are recycled into new clothes, since technologies that would enable recycling clothes into virgin fibres are only starting to emerge”. 1)
LTP Garment manufacturing in Lithuania
1) European parliament "Environmental impact of the textile and clothing industry", 2019
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