Fashion repair and circularity
Key circularity reports and case studies, 2020 to 2026.
Prepared by Tingit for Mango's Circularity team. Every source is linked and tagged with its headline finding, so you can go straight to what is useful. Grouped from the most directly relevant (proven repair programmes) out to the wider industry, regulatory and consumer evidence.
1. Best repair programmes, the proof repair works
The strongest like-for-like cases. Each runs repair, and usually resale, at scale and publishes numbers.
Patagonia, Worn Wear
More than 583,000 items kept out of landfill through repair; repair shown to drive loyalty and advocacy.
Nudie Jeans
Free repairs for life; 68,342 pairs repaired in 2024 across 33 own repair shops and 15 partners. The benchmark for repair as standard.
Arc'teryx, ReBIRD
Three pillars: ReCare (free repair at service centres), ReGEAR (resale) and ReCut (upcycling). The programme doubled its business year on year and saved roughly 30,000 kg of carbon. Repair, resale and upcycling as a growth strategy.
Uniqlo, RE.UNIQLO STUDIO
In-store repair and remake (including Sashiko embroidery), repairs from about 5 USD; scaled to 67 stores across 23 countries by late 2025. The mass-market in-store model.
GANNI with SOJO
1,160 services in 2024, up 228% year on year, up 393% in-store; about 1,748 kg CO2e and roughly 499,000 L water saved using a displacement-rate method. A separate Rescue pilot restocked 660 of 2,000 damaged returns. A contemporary brand outsourcing repair, Mango's closest peer model.
Eileen Fisher, Renew
More than 2 million garments taken back since 2009, over 660,000 resold; items repaired, over-dyed and remade. The long-run take-back and repair-for-resale playbook.
Coach, (Re)Loved
More than 260,000 bags repaired in three years; restore, remake and upcraft; restored items up to 76% lower carbon than new. Strong for leather goods and bags.
Levi's, Tailor Shops and SecondHand
In-store tailoring and repair across stores, plus a brand-run buy-back and resale platform. The denim heritage model linking repair to resale.
Decathlon, Second Life
Circular sales up 10% to 3.15% of group revenue in 2024; in Germany alone 127,000 repairs and 88,000 resold; aiming to triple circular revenue by 2027. The mass-retailer scale analog.
Selfridges, Project Earth and Reselfridges
Target of 45% of transactions circular (resale, repair, rental, refill) by 2030; over 28,000 repairs facilitated. The department-store, multi-brand model.
2. Industry and framework reports
The big-picture numbers and frameworks to anchor a business case.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation, circular economy for fashion
The foundational hub on designing for longevity, resale and repair, with the headline opportunity figures for the sector.
WRAP, UK Textiles Pact (Textiles 2030)
Extending a garment's life by nine months cuts carbon, water and waste by about 20%; repair adds roughly 1.3 years of life; 47% of signatories run repair. The go-to impact factors.
McKinsey and Business of Fashion, The State of Fashion
Secondhand set to grow two to three times faster than first-hand toward about 317bn USD; circular models back among the top opportunities, with a gap between ambition and action. The strategic context. The full PDFs are free to download.
ThredUp, Resale Report 2026
Global secondhand apparel heading to about 367bn USD by 2029; a record 58% of US consumers bought secondhand in 2024; brand-direct resale rising. The market-size reference.
Global Fashion Agenda, Fashion CEO Agenda 2025
The annual GFA strategic priorities for fashion leadership, covering circular systems, resource stewardship and respectful supply chains. Useful framing for board-level conversations.
Global Fashion Agenda, Monitor Update 2024
Industry progress check across GFA's five sustainability priorities, with hard numbers on circular systems adoption and where the sector still lags.
Global Fashion Agenda and McKinsey, Fashion on Climate 2020
The foundational quantification of fashion's climate impact and the abatement levers, including extending product life through repair and resale.
Vaayu x Vinted, Climate Change Impact Report 2021
Independent lifecycle analysis quantifying the carbon avoided through secondhand purchases on Vinted; a defensible methodology reference for displacement-rate impact claims.
Vestiaire Collective, Circularity Report 2024
A 13,400-person study: 79% displacement rate (a resale replaces a new purchase), about 90% lower impact per item, plus a cost-per-wear metric. A useful method for defensible impact claims.
3. Regulation and policy, the reason it is timely
The compliance drivers that make repair and recovery time-sensitive for a brand Mango's size.
EU, ESPR ban on destroying unsold clothing
From 19 July 2026 large companies may not destroy unsold apparel and footwear; standardised disclosure of quantity, weight and reason follows from February 2027. Directly relevant to Mango's in-store stock.
EU, Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and the Digital Product Passport
Durability, repairability and a Digital Product Passport (expected 2027) sit at the centre of EU textile policy. Frames why per-item records matter.
France, Refashion Bonus Réparation (ADEME)
A state-funded discount applied directly at checkout by accredited repairers; over 6,500 labelled repairers and more than 1.5 million repairs in 2025. For clothing and shoes the discount runs about 6 to 25 EUR, the repair must cost at least 12 EUR, capped at 60% of the price, with leather and fur excluded. The model Tingit already works with.
EU, Right to Repair Directive, expert group deck
Expert group briefing on the Right to Repair Directive: scope, obligations on producers, and the practical implications for product categories moving into the repair-first regime.
EU Textiles Ecosystem Platform, repair best-practice library
Commission-curated case studies on repair and reuse (Nudie, United Repair Centre and more); credible, brand-neutral references.
4. Consumer behaviour on repair
Evidence for the demand, and the gap between intent and action that a good service closes. Mango said it lacks this insight.
Extending the lifetime of clothing through repair and repurpose
Open-access study of UK citizens on the barriers and enablers to repair.
Clothing repair behaviour of fashion-sensitive consumers
Peer-reviewed study on what drives and blocks repair (skills, time, perceived cost, trend-sensitivity). Useful for designing the offer around real barriers.
McKinsey, consumer sentiment on sustainability in fashion
Survey evidence on what shoppers say versus what they pay for; helps calibrate expectations for a brand repair programme.
If it is useful, we can turn the most relevant of these into a two-page brief tailored to Mango's categories and markets.
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