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Global luxury group Kering has announced a dedicated biodiversity strategy with a series of new targets in order to achieve a?'net positive'?impact on biodiversity by 2025.Aligned with its long-term commitment to sustainability,?the group’s new biodiversity strategy outlines steps to not only...
Global luxury group Kering has announced a dedicated biodiversity strategy with a series of new targets in order to achieve a?'net positive'?impact on biodiversity by 2025.Aligned with its long-term commitment to sustainability,?the group’s new biodiversity strategy outlines steps to not only minimize biodiversity loss across its global supply chains but also to support nature and create net...
Europe’s leading online fashion platform Zalando has become the first retailer to adopt the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s (SAC) latest version of the Higg Brand and Retail Module (Higg BRM),?a tool allowing the assessment of the ethical and environmental performance of brands. The Higg BRM...
Europe’s leading online fashion platform Zalando has become the first retailer to adopt the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s (SAC) latest version of the Higg Brand and Retail Module (Higg BRM),?a tool allowing the assessment of the ethical and environmental performance of brands. The Higg BRM evaluates areas like human rights, wage parity and carbon dioxide emissions.Zalando’s partner brands...
Sportswear brand adidas has teamed up with footwear company Allbirds to develop a sports performance shoe with the lowest ever carbon footprint.Despite being competitors, the brands want the future of the footwear industry to be more about collaboration than competition. “There is an urgent need...
Sportswear brand adidas has teamed up with footwear company Allbirds to develop a sports performance shoe with the lowest ever carbon footprint.Despite being competitors, the brands want the future of the footwear industry to be more about collaboration than competition. “There is an urgent need to reduce our global carbon number, and this mission is bigger than just Allbirds or adidas.?Whether...
While Italy may perhaps be well-known globally for its family-run companies, especially the ones whose focus lies on craftsmanship and Made-In-Italy, it isn't mainly known for its innovations in sustainability. And, in a day and age where the discussion on this particular theme is becoming more...
While Italy may perhaps be well-known globally for its family-run companies, especially the ones whose focus lies on craftsmanship and Made-In-Italy, it isn't mainly known for its innovations in sustainability. And, in a day and age where the discussion on this particular theme is becoming more and more urgent, Candiani, the denim mill hailing back to 1938, has, over time, stood out due to its...
As the second most polluting sector in the world, the fashion industry – especially when driven by fast fashion’s dominant business model - is still a long way from implementing durable, efficient solutions, but?new forms of consciousness are guiding upcoming designers. While large and indie...
As the second most polluting sector in the world, the fashion industry – especially when driven by fast fashion’s dominant business model - is still a long way from implementing durable, efficient solutions, but?new forms of consciousness are guiding upcoming designers. While large and indie labels alike are stepping up their sustainability initiatives, a wave of young emerging designers are...
Amidst all the green-vocabulary being passed around within the
fashion industry, ‘vegan fabric’
is one such catch-phrase making itself known in a
tactile manner. From conscious consumers to plain old peer pressure, fashion
brands...
Amidst all the green-vocabulary being passed around within the
fashion industry, ‘vegan fabric’
is one such catch-phrase making itself known in a
tactile manner. From conscious consumers to plain old peer pressure, fashion
brands are finding ways to design more eco-friendly and ethical collections,
feeding into the demand for...
Hands down, the most powerful trend to emerge from London’s shows last season was its embrace of sustainability — not just as a hashtag or easy talking point, but as a revolution in thinking that united an entirely new generation of progressive, responsibly-minded designers. Five months on, you’d...
Hands down, the most powerful trend to emerge from London’s shows last season was its embrace of sustainability — not just as a hashtag or easy talking point, but as a revolution in thinking that united an entirely new generation of progressive, responsibly-minded designers. Five months on, you’d have thought there’d have been little by the way of additional change. But it has.?After several...
Ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games, Nike has unveiled a breakthrough innovation for the athletes competing in the hottest Games on record, which includes footwear designed to provide runners with a measurable performance benefit for a new era of competition.?The sportswear brand went eco-friendly by...
Ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games, Nike has unveiled a breakthrough innovation for the athletes competing in the hottest Games on record, which includes footwear designed to provide runners with a measurable performance benefit for a new era of competition.?The sportswear brand went eco-friendly by debuting progressive new collections made out of sustainable materials for all athletes. As the...
Today, as general awareness for sustainability grows, a change in consumer attitudes towards wearing and utilizing secondhand goods is notably impacting the fashion industry as a whole.?In fact, the buying, reselling and renting of worn, vintage fashion might be the industry’s most potent chance...
Today, as general awareness for sustainability grows, a change in consumer attitudes towards wearing and utilizing secondhand goods is notably impacting the fashion industry as a whole.?In fact, the buying, reselling and renting of worn, vintage fashion might be the industry’s most potent chance to keep its sustainable promises. Mainly because it is a reflection of customer behavior — and thus...
Can fashion ever be sustainable? Over the past year, this question has turned into the topic of choice, increasingly favoured by everyone in the fashion industry.
Yet, has 'sustainability' become the chosen buzzword brands are recklessly bandying about, or is this topic finally getting the...
Can fashion ever be sustainable? Over the past year, this question has turned into the topic of choice, increasingly favoured by everyone in the fashion industry.
Yet, has 'sustainability' become the chosen buzzword brands are recklessly bandying about, or is this topic finally getting the attention it deserves?
For the designer, activist and writer, Céline Semaan, tackling this issue first...
Copenhagen Fashion Week has announced its new Sustainability Action Plan for 2020-2022 designed to reinforce the event’s sustainability profile and prompt the industry to accelerate its sustainability efforts.The plan details how the fashion event will transition into becoming more sustainable...
Copenhagen Fashion Week has announced its new Sustainability Action Plan for 2020-2022 designed to reinforce the event’s sustainability profile and prompt the industry to accelerate its sustainability efforts.The plan details how the fashion event will transition into becoming more sustainable through a series of commitments, including the reduction of its climate impact by 50% and rethinking...
The
organizers of ready-to-wear fair WHITE MILANO staged the?world’s first
high-end sustainable fashion trade show here,?in an event that
unfurled between January 11 and 12 at Milan’s BASE location in the city’s
district.?
Dubbed
WSM (WHITE...
The
organizers of ready-to-wear fair WHITE MILANO staged the?world’s first
high-end sustainable fashion trade show here,?in an event that
unfurled between January 11 and 12 at Milan’s BASE location in the city’s
district.?
Dubbed
WSM (WHITE SUSTAINABLE MILANO), the fair was attended by 4000 visitors and a
noted presence of Asian buyers, WHITE said....
Cable knits and fine merino jumpers took center stage on the
runways as Milan’s fall winter shows kicked off, but they may not make such a
splash next year.?
Wool prices are expected to rise, as the Australian fires
prolonged last year’s drought. “It’s...
Cable knits and fine merino jumpers took center stage on the
runways as Milan’s fall winter shows kicked off, but they may not make such a
splash next year.?
Wool prices are expected to rise, as the Australian fires
prolonged last year’s drought. “It’s not the fires we are worried about... the sheep may
not have anything to eat or drink,” said Ercole...
Like it or not, the fashion system orbits around Vogue – the title that, with its opinions, shaped the aesthetic taste, defined fashion and built (or destroyed) the fortune of brands and designers,?since it started. Now, times are changing and the innate tools of creativity that the publication...
Like it or not, the fashion system orbits around Vogue – the title that, with its opinions, shaped the aesthetic taste, defined fashion and built (or destroyed) the fortune of brands and designers,?since it started. Now, times are changing and the innate tools of creativity that the publication developed through almost 130 years, and to this day, are constantly evolving trying to keep its...