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.
In Search of Transparency: Fashion’s Data Problem
Fashion is a notoriously opaque industry. That’s a big problem when the industry is focusing on reducing its negative environmental and social impact.
In Search of Transparency: Fashion’s Data Problem
Fashion is a notoriously opaque industry. That’s a big problem when the industry is focusing on reducing its negative environmental and social impact.
Revenge Shopping vs Sustainability: Fashion Can’t Have Both
This week, the dissonance between Earth Day marketing and a Roaring 2020s-style resurgence in consumption made clear that fashion’s sustainability pledges and its growth ambitions are on a collision course.
Revenge Shopping vs Sustainability: Fashion Can’t Have Both
This week, the dissonance between Earth Day marketing and a Roaring 2020s-style resurgence in consumption made clear that fashion’s sustainability pledges and its growth ambitions are on a collision course.
Scaling Up or Selling Out: How Can Sustainable Labels Credibly Collaborate with Big Brands?
H&M’s latest collaboration with Liya Kebede’s Lemlem drops on Earth Day, but it won’t use the artisan-focused label’s supply chain, underscoring the complexities of these kinds of partnerships.
Scaling Up or Selling Out: How Can Sustainable Labels Credibly Collaborate with Big Brands?
H&M’s latest collaboration with Liya Kebede’s Lemlem drops on Earth Day, but it won’t use the artisan-focused label’s supply chain, underscoring the complexities of these kinds of partnerships.
Devising a New Social Contract for Fashion’s Garment Workers
Fashion has routinely failed the millions of people who make its clothes. What should the industry do to create systemic change?
Devising a New Social Contract for Fashion’s Garment Workers
Fashion has routinely failed the millions of people who make its clothes. What should the industry do to create systemic change?
Stella McCartney on the Business of Sustainable Design
The pioneering designer spoke to BoF’s Imran Amed about continuing to push the envelope for sustainable luxury at The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap.
Stella McCartney on the Business of Sustainable Design
The pioneering designer spoke to BoF’s Imran Amed about continuing to push the envelope for sustainable luxury at The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap.
The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap
Fashion’s negative environmental and social impact is an increasingly critical risk for the industry. Keynote speaker Stella McCartney was joined by a group of global experts to discuss the solutions.
The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap
Fashion’s negative environmental and social impact is an increasingly critical risk for the industry. Keynote speaker Stella McCartney was joined by a group of global experts to discuss the solutions.
BoF LIVE: Solving Fashion’s Packaging Problem
BoF’s Lauren Sherman and Brian Baskin unpack fashion’s wasteful schemes for delivering products to consumers, and discuss how the industry can do better with a panel of experts.
BoF LIVE: Solving Fashion’s Packaging Problem
BoF’s Lauren Sherman and Brian Baskin unpack fashion’s wasteful schemes for delivering products to consumers, and discuss how the industry can do better with a panel of experts.
The Tech Tools That Want to Solve Fashion’s Supply Chain Problems
The industry’s opaque and sprawling supply chain does tremendous human and environmental damage. Companies offering new tools say they have solutions.
The Tech Tools That Want to Solve Fashion’s Supply Chain Problems
The industry’s opaque and sprawling supply chain does tremendous human and environmental damage. Companies offering new tools say they have solutions.
Sustainability Comes At a Cost. Fashion Isn’t Paying.
Billions of dollars of investment are needed if the industry is to operate more sustainably. But there is little evidence brands are prepared to pay for it, according to new analysis from The BoF Sustainability Index.
Sustainability Comes At a Cost. Fashion Isn’t Paying.
Billions of dollars of investment are needed if the industry is to operate more sustainably. But there is little evidence brands are prepared to pay for it, according to new analysis from The BoF Sustainability Index.
Xinjiang Cotton Continues To Cause Trouble For Brands
This week, everyone will be talking about the debate over Xinjiang cotton, Shanghai Fashion Week and what the collections shown at New York’s bridal fashion week mean for wedding trends.
Xinjiang Cotton Continues To Cause Trouble For Brands
This week, everyone will be talking about the debate over Xinjiang cotton, Shanghai Fashion Week and what the collections shown at New York’s bridal fashion week mean for wedding trends.
A Crash Course on The BoF Sustainability Index
BoF’s London editor Sarah Kent and editor-in-chief Imran Amed delve into The BoF Sustainability Index, measuring fashion’s progress towards avoiding catastrophic climate change and achieving broader social imperatives by 2030.
A Crash Course on The BoF Sustainability Index
BoF’s London editor Sarah Kent and editor-in-chief Imran Amed delve into The BoF Sustainability Index, measuring fashion’s progress towards avoiding catastrophic climate change and achieving broader social imperatives by 2030.
Stella McCartney Is the Keynote Speaker at the BoF Professional Summit
Join us on April 14 for a four-hour live broadcast of interactive conversations on closing fashion’s sustainability gap, with a keynote address by the pioneering designer.
Stella McCartney Is the Keynote Speaker at the BoF Professional Summit
Join us on April 14 for a four-hour live broadcast of interactive conversations on closing fashion’s sustainability gap, with a keynote address by the pioneering designer.
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.