Portfolio
Material Development: Circulose®
Photographed by Filippa K
Developed a new textile for Filippa K using recycled fiber Circulose®. Sparked a collaboration between the Italian mill Beste and Swedish recycler Renewcell to develop a fabric from Beste’s textile scraps, as well as create a loop so that Beste could continue to flow their scraps into Renewcell’s Circulose® production.
Wrote script and did voiceover for the video about the collaboration.
New Supply Chain: Swedish Wool Initiative
Frustrated by the fact that less than 50% of the wool produced by Swedish farmers is used, while brands buy wool from far-off countries without having full traceability or impact data, Filippa K started working with Swedish wool in 2019. Jodi helped to set up a new supply chain, working directly with the farmers in Sweden and introducing Swedish wool to key suppliers in Italy. Learnings from our product development were shared with 20+ other Swedish stakeholders (including other brands), and we won Drapers Sustainability Award for Best Supply Chain Initiative.
In 2020 the project was pitched to Axfoundation, who has scaled up the initiative and delivered a classification system and continued to work toward an industrial framework for increased use of Swedish wool.
Material Development: OnceMore®
Photographed by Thomas Jansson for Filippa K
Launched development of a new material for Filippa K using Södra’s OnceMore® fiber in collaboration with Lenzing™ and Portuguese mill Riopele.
Project Management: Upcycled Capsule with Stinarand x Filippa K
Led project and worked directly with designer Stina Randestad, who created custom designs from reclaimed or collected FK garments. Designed exhibition around these pieces at a gallery in Stockholm, to share more about circularity at Filippa K. Nominated for Drapers Sustainability Award 2022 for Best Customer Engagement Campaign for Stinarand collaboration.
Photographed by Filippa K
Wool Rug Development with Kahoko
In collaboration with Kahoko, developed 3 handwoven rugs for Filippa K, working with a family in the Rift Valley in Kenya to do the spinning, natural dyeing and weaving.
Recycling of Industrial Polyester Lashings into Trims for Filippa K
Based on the need for alternative feedstocks to plastic bottles, we mechanically recycled industrial polyester waste into buttons and buckles. (The contaminated industrial material was also successfully chemically recycled, with an LCA finding that it had a 72% lower CO2 impact than virgin polyester.) However, due to the lack of availability of commercialized recycling technology suitable for contaminated industrial polyester, as well as challenges in reverse logistics and market conditions prevented the project from scaling further. This project was led by AxFoundation. Won Axel Johnson annual sustainability award for the project.
Other Projects
Project to explore closed loop chemical recycling of wool/synthetic blend textiles (run by Research Institutes of Sweden, together with Woolpower and Sudwolle). The aim of the project was to develop methods for chemically recycling wool synthetic blends by (1) separation and dissolution of the different fibers, and (2) wet- and melt-spinning of new textile fibers from the recycled raw materials.
Project to develop a bio-based and biodegradable vegan leather alternative from Swedish raw materials (apple waste, tree bark), together with Research Institutes of Sweden.
Pilot for an open source digital platform to capture business critical info on repairing garments, together with Trustrace, Circularista, and repair partner Atelje Unitex. Essentially, we wanted to create a circular PLM system. Over 1500 used Filippa K garments were sorted by Unitex, with 278 items repaired and documented. Digital IDs were generated in order to capture costs associated with take-back and repair and to allow Filippa K to assess the potential of circular business models. Received a Re:Source grant to fund this project.