"As a generation, they care deeply about the environment and sustainability - but are also under pressure to change their wardrobe constantly. Which impulse will win? Alessia Teresko, a 21-year-old st ...
"In “Consumed,” fashion journalist Aja Barber details why we can’t buy our way to a more ethical world. [...] Some shoppers have defended fast fashion’s affordability and claim that the sustainability ...
"Fashion brand Oh Polly has launched an online clothing bank, enabling customers to return unwanted apparel, shoes and accessories that’ll be donated to the Salvation Army charity. Oh Polly sought to ...
"This video is a lookbook of sustainable fashion looks for clothing made in West Africa. My sister made these 3 dresses in Abidjan, Ivory Coast using 100% locally materials. Sustainable fashion brands ...
"Environmental non-profit Canopy has hailed man-made cellulosic fibre (MMCF) manufacturers Lenzing and Birla Cellulose for establishing timebound targets for producing 100,000 tonnes of their respecti ...
"Through a broad industry collaboration, H&M Group and Inter IKEA have been able to create a large-scale databank to understand potentials and challenges with recycled textile from a chemical contamin ...
"Swedish fashion and homeware giants H&M and IKEA have completed a large-scale joint study into the risks of chemical contamination in recycled textiles. Adidas, Bestseller, Kingfisher, Gap and PVH Co ...
""Hack Your Closet" opens its first French warehouse near Strasbourg. The company co-founded in Sweden by an Alsatian is experiencing an irresistible rise, offering to reuse unsold clothing from major ...
"Paris fashion week finished in dramatic fashion on Tuesday evening. An Extinction Rebellion protester made her way down the Louis Vuitton catwalk with a sign that read “overconsumption = extinction”. ...
"Everything comes down to water use. Whether it’s in our own personal lives or the fashion brands we patronize, lowering our water use is a significant part of how we all reduce our environmental impa ...
"A new report from the Transformers Foundation denim industry non-profit builds on our 'Busting Myths' investigation to illustrate fashion's "serious and growing misinformation problem". Busting Myths ...
"While there has been an increase in “sustainability” efforts at Fashion Week over the past few seasons, there’s also been an increase in my personal frustration. I feel a deep, guttural ARGHHH rise u ...
"The 5 Principles of Responsible Purchasing have been developed on the basis of data provided by suppliers engaged with Better Buying’s ratings platform, surveys, and Supplier Roundtables over the las ...
"The Better Buying Institute (BBI) has launched a set of five principles for responsible purchasing which it hopes brands and retailers will adopt and follow. It says they have been developed from dat ...
"Through the 1990s and into the 2000s, even as stores became dingy and understaffed, the dressing room try-on remained a crucial step in the act of clothing yourself. But as online shopping became eve ...
"What is Rivet 50? Rivet 50 is an annual index of the most influential leaders in advancing the business of denim. Now in its fourth year, Rivet 50 serves as a barometer for the denim industry, a repr ...
"Clothing made from recycled bottles is actually creating more plastic waste, a pollution charity has found, as it labelled the practice “greenwashing”. Polyester and other materials created from plas ...
"Fashion has a major misinformation problem. Halftruths, out-of-date information and shocking statistics stripped of context are widely circulated, from the notion that fashion is the second-most poll ...
"It feels apropos to release a fiber-focused report on World Cotton Day — that’s why The Transformers Foundation and the International Cotton Advisory Committee announced today that its first report — ...
"Footwear and lifestyle brand, Toms has partnered with grassroots organisation, The Advocacy Academy, to empower young advocates to campaign for the change they want to see in their local communities. ...
