AII Launches Industry-First Tool Standardising Measurement of Carbon Emissions
The new tool published by the climate-focused nonprofit aims to create a standardised benchmark across textile facilities to accelerate fashion’s efforts to decarbonise.
Sustainability
How fashion can do better for people and the planet.
Will a Recession Stunt Sustainable Fashion?
The last major downturn in 2008 was a huge setback for an emerging movement. But this time, shifts in both consumer and business culture mean things are likely to be different.
Will a Recession Stunt Sustainable Fashion?
The last major downturn in 2008 was a huge setback for an emerging movement. But this time, shifts in both consumer and business culture mean things are likely to be different.
Fashion’s Sustainability Secrets
The industry’s biggest players still aren’t disclosing basic data about environmental and social impact, putting them in the firing line as regulators look to crack down on greenwashing.
Fashion’s Sustainability Secrets
The industry’s biggest players still aren’t disclosing basic data about environmental and social impact, putting them in the firing line as regulators look to crack down on greenwashing.
Fashion’s Transparency Efforts Fall Short on Fundamental Data Points
More big brands are making public commitments to curb environmental impact and protect workers, but data on how they’re performing remains scarce, this year’s Fashion Transparency Index finds.
Fashion’s Transparency Efforts Fall Short on Fundamental Data Points
More big brands are making public commitments to curb environmental impact and protect workers, but data on how they’re performing remains scarce, this year’s Fashion Transparency Index finds.
Inditex Enters ‘Clean Tech’ With Investment in Circular Start-Up Circ
The fast-fashion giant joined a $30 million funding round, making its first venture investment in a clean technology company as interest in textile recycling grows.
Inditex Enters ‘Clean Tech’ With Investment in Circular Start-Up Circ
The fast-fashion giant joined a $30 million funding round, making its first venture investment in a clean technology company as interest in textile recycling grows.
Can Fashion Lower Its Climate Impact While Selling More Products?
Resolving the fundamental tension between what is good for revenue growth and what is good for the environment is the biggest challenge to fashion’s sustainability efforts.
Can Fashion Lower Its Climate Impact While Selling More Products?
Resolving the fundamental tension between what is good for revenue growth and what is good for the environment is the biggest challenge to fashion’s sustainability efforts.
The Start-Ups Aiming to Detox Dyeing
Turning dresses red and jeans blue is a dirty, resource-intensive process. A number of new technologies offer promising solutions for a lower-impact way forward.
The Start-Ups Aiming to Detox Dyeing
Turning dresses red and jeans blue is a dirty, resource-intensive process. A number of new technologies offer promising solutions for a lower-impact way forward.
Gucci Cuts Climate Impact While Growing Sales
Last year, while Gucci sales rebounded from the pandemic, its climate impact remained 15 percent lower than 2019 levels. Can it maintain the trend?
Gucci Cuts Climate Impact While Growing Sales
Last year, while Gucci sales rebounded from the pandemic, its climate impact remained 15 percent lower than 2019 levels. Can it maintain the trend?
Sustainable Fashion’s Credibility Crisis
This week, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition suspended the use of its product labels, employed by companies like H&M and Amazon, as concerns over greenwashing engulfed one of the industry’s top sustainability tools.
Sustainable Fashion’s Credibility Crisis
This week, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition suspended the use of its product labels, employed by companies like H&M and Amazon, as concerns over greenwashing engulfed one of the industry’s top sustainability tools.
Fashion’s Sustainable Materials Strategy Needs a Glow-Up
Big brands are buying more recycled polyester, better cotton and responsible leather than ever. But progress is precarious and more radical action is needed to really transform the industry’s supply chains, a new report from Textile Exchange finds.
Fashion’s Sustainable Materials Strategy Needs a Glow-Up
Big brands are buying more recycled polyester, better cotton and responsible leather than ever. But progress is precarious and more radical action is needed to really transform the industry’s supply chains, a new report from Textile Exchange finds.
Where Does Your T-Shirt Really Come From?
A stringent US ban on imports from China’s Xinjiang region that came into effect this week ratchets up the pressure on companies to prove their supply chains are free of forced labour.
Where Does Your T-Shirt Really Come From?
A stringent US ban on imports from China’s Xinjiang region that came into effect this week ratchets up the pressure on companies to prove their supply chains are free of forced labour.
A Crash Course on The BoF Sustainability Index 2022
Founder and editor-in-chief Imran Amed unpacks findings from BoF’s Sustainability Index with the authors of the report.
A Crash Course on The BoF Sustainability Index 2022
Founder and editor-in-chief Imran Amed unpacks findings from BoF’s Sustainability Index with the authors of the report.
Why LVMH Is Betting on Lab-Grown Diamonds
For years, luxury’s biggest jewellers have dismissed synthetic diamonds as inauthentic. But an investment by LVMH’s venture fund in lab-grown diamond company Lusix suggests this calculus may be changing alongside consumer interest in ethical and sustainable products.
Why LVMH Is Betting on Lab-Grown Diamonds
For years, luxury’s biggest jewellers have dismissed synthetic diamonds as inauthentic. But an investment by LVMH’s venture fund in lab-grown diamond company Lusix suggests this calculus may be changing alongside consumer interest in ethical and sustainable products.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
EU Finalises Plan to Scale Back Sustainability Rules
The bloc’s overhaul sharply reduces the number of companies covered by ESG reporting and supply chain due-diligence laws, easing compliance pressures but increasing concerns over accountability.
EU to Ban Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes
The European Commission has adopted new measures that will require medium and large companies to stop discarding unsold clothing and footwear, in the bloc’s latest move to target textile waste.
Climate Inaction Puts 34% of Fashion Industry Profits at Risk
The financial implications of global warming are becoming increasingly difficult for corporate executives to ignore.
German Watchdog Says Shein Must Substantiate or Remove Net-Zero Claims
The ultra-fast fashion retailer says it has updated language on its website following engagement with the group.
Rick Owens Bans Animal Fur
The news comes less than a week after the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade staged protests outside the brand’s stores.
Hearst Magazines Bans Fur From Its Publications
Following the publicisation of Condé Nast’s fur ban in October, the Harper’s Bazaar publisher will now prohibit the use of animal fur in its editorial and advertising content.
Cyclone in Sri Lanka Impacts Multiple Garment Factories
A week after devastating floods, the industry association in Sri Lanka says multiple large facilities have been impacted, as recovery efforts for affected workers are underway.