OSOMTEX® Awarded Honorable Mention in Best World Changing Idea Category of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards

From a cleaner freight train to an automated beehive, a way to recycle fabric, and other bold, new technologies,the5 the annual awards honor the products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are pursuing innovation for the good of society and the planet.

New York, May 4, 2021 — The winners of Fast Company’s 2021 World-Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.

Osomtex® is a woman-led, material tech company offering the industry closed-loop solutions to textile waste. The first company to introduce a 100% upcycled high-performance yarn made from post-consumer clothing blend on a large scale. Osomtex® has been selected as an Honorable Mention on 2021 Fast Company World Changing Ideas 2021.

Now in its fifth year, the World-Changing Ideas Awards showcase 33 winners, more than 400 finalists, and more than 800 honorable mentions—with Health and Wellness, AI & Data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 4,000 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more. Plus, several new categories were added, including Pandemic Response, Urban Design, and Architecture. The 2021 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Brazil to Denmark to Vietnam.

Showcasing some of the world’s most inventive entrepreneurs and companies tackling exigent global challenges, Fast Company’s Summer 2021 issue (on newsstands May 10) highlights, among others, a lifesaving bassinet; the world’s largest carbon sink, thanks to carbon-eating concrete; 3D-printed schools; an at-home COVID-19 testing kit; a mobile voting app; and the world’s cleanest milk.

“Osomtex® has pioneered a big change on the way things are being done in the garment world. Disrupting the fashion industry, rethinking the supply chain, and creating high-quality upcycled materials has been nothing but easy. But we will continue to do so, innovating and improving for a circular economy and a healthier planet”, says Patricia Ermecheo Founder and CEO of Osomtex®.

“There is no question our society and planet are facing deeply troubling times. So, it’s important to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, impact, design, scalability, and passion to solve these problems,” says Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “Our journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have discovered some of the most groundbreaking projects that have launched since the start of 2020.”

About the World-Changing Ideas Awards: World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start working on solving the problems that affect us all.

Nike Drops The Space Hippie Sneaker

Nike just dropped the out-of-this-world Space Hippie 01,02,03,04, well you get the point- with waste created in this world. And we are beyond thrilled to be part of this collaboration.

Nike Space Hippie

It is imperative to shift our awareness of how we design and make products.

Space Hippie, an exploratory footwear collection constructed with Nike's own “space junk,” transforms scrap material from factory floors into a radical expression of circular design. Every detail of the four initial Space Hippie silhouettes, from material choices to methods of making to packaging, was chosen with consideration for its environmental impact.

With Nike Space Hippie, the urgency of climate change is met by a bold step to reimagine solutions to critical environmental problems. The result is the creation of Nike footwear with our lowest carbon footprint scores ever.

"Space Hippie product presents itself as an artifact from the future. It's avant-garde; it's rebelliously optimistic," says John Hoke, Nike Chief Design Officer. "Space Hippie is also an idea. It is about figuring out how to make the most with the least material, the least energy, and the least carbon." 

The product has purpose, but doesn’t veer from Nike’s legacy of goosebump-inducing design. It is a barometer of progress, presenting new ideas to deal with waste and turning trash into something beautiful. 

"I'd say Space Hippie attacks the villain of trash," says Hoke. "It's changed the way we look at materials, it's changed the way that we look at the aesthetics of our product. It's changed how we approach putting product together."

Nike Designer Noah Murphy-Reinhertz Breaks Down The Design of the Space Hippie 02

"The basis for the engineered knits that form the Space Hippie uppers is created using what we call 'Space Waste Yarn.' These yarns are made from 100 percent recycled material — including recycled plastic water bottles, T-shirts and yarn scraps. Combined with the other elements of the Space Hippie 02, we get an upper that is 90 percent recycled content by weight."

"For cushioning, Space Hippie uses factory scraps from the production of the Vaporfly 4% and reprocesses that ZoomX foam in a way that uses about half the CO2e as typical Nike foams."



"The tooling of all Space Hippie shoes, created with 'Crater Foam,' is made with a blend of standard Nike foams and 15 percent Nike Grind Rubber. The reduction in virgin material gives a lower carbon footprint and the Nike Grind granules create a really unique texture and color mix on every midsole."

Consider Space Hippie an example of advancing human potential. New benchmarks in use of recycled content set a new bar for responsible design. It challenges convention in material sourcing. Space Hippie is about doing better for today, setting the stage for a stronger tomorrow. It drives a new visioConsider Space Hippie an example of advancing human potential. New benchmarks in use of recycled content set a new bar for responsible design. It challenges convention in material sourcing. Space Hippie is about doing better for today, setting the stage for a stronger tomorrow. It drives a new vision for how things are made, used and, ultimately, reused. 

"We believe the future for product will be circular," says Seana Hannah, VP, Sustainable Innovation. "We must think about the entire process: how we design it, how we make it, how we use it, how we reuse it and how we cut out waste at every step. These are the fundamentals of a circular mindset that inform best practices."

Space Hippie embodies the idea that designers have a right and responsibility in problem-solving. It tackles a big, complex issue with soft grace. Like a barrier-breaking run, the innovation should provide us all a healthy dose of inspiration. 

Space Hippie 01, 02, 03 and 04 will be available this spring for Nike members in SNKRS and SNEAKERS, as well as at Nike House of Innovation flagship locations and select retailers.

Meet the team behind Space Hippie

Courtesy of NIKE

READ MORE at https://news.nike.com/news/space-hippie

OSOMTEX showcased at Fashion Tech Lab Launch Event in the midst of Paris Fashion Week

October 2 2017, Google Labs, Paris  

Last night, one of the most epic launches in the fashion and tech world occurred in the midst Paris Fashion Week: Miroslava Duma's Fashion Tech Lab.

(left to right) OSOMTEX CEO & Founder Patricia Ermecheo, FTL Founder Miroslava Duma, CEO Kering Group François-Henri Pinault, Actress and Activist Salma Hayek and Fashion Designer Stella McCartney

Miroslava’s new umbrella platform Fashion Tech Lab, showcased OSOMTEX and 6 other disruptive technologies from all over the world motivated by the shared vision to bridge fashion, technology and the science of sustainability.

In the midst of Paris Fashion Week enter the beautiful courtyard of the Google offices in Paris to experience the hype and futuristic decor designed and put together by the unmistakable fashion show event designers and producers Bureau Betak. The Fashion Tech Lab launch event was finally on! The fluorescent cube with the FTL logo and mirrors in the middle of the courtyard and the robot bartenders really made a statement of what FTL is all about; the power of technology for good. After grabbing a drink with the robot bartenders it was time to enter the world of the innovation.The 65 square meter interactive screen at The Google Arts Culture Lab was used to showcase custom 3D rendered content within an impossible laboratory of the future, giving an unprecedented glimpse into the ecosystem of each of the technologies and their unique problem-solving qualities. 

OSOMTEX upcycled yarns showcased at the Fashion Tech Lab launch event

OSOMTEX showcased their upcycled fibers made from discarded post-consumer waste in an interconnected mesh of upcycled yarns beautifully and symmetrically placed within an acrylic cube with incisions on the sides so that the guests could freely interact with the fibers of the future.  OSOMTEX’s mission is clear: solve the Fashion Industry’s waste crisis by closing the loop and avoid textiles from going to landfills, embracing the idea of a transparent circular economy in which resources are finally taken into an account in an industry that has been blind for decades.  

Over 200 guests* from the worlds of fashion, investment, technology, and sustainability were there to discover, advise or just to simply enjoy the game changers in the industry. FTL created the right atmosphere of dialogue, positivity and cooperation that is much needed today across the industry and it seems that world is ready for a big change.

*The guest list included the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, François Pinault (Kering), Karl Lagerfeld and Bruno Pavlovsky (Chanel), Nicolas Ghesquiere (Louis Vuitton), Valentino Garavani (Valentino), Mario Testino, Alexandre Arnault (Rimowa), Azzedine Alaia, Adrian Joffe (Comme des Garçons), Maria Grazia Chiuri (Dior), Alber Elbaz, Haider Ackermann, Christian Louboutin, Pierre Hardy, actors Marion Cotillard, Salma Hayek.

The 3D Impossible Laboratory featuring OSOMTEX at the Fashion Tech Lab launch event