The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The Ivanka Trump Brand Just Won a Boatload of New Trademarks in China (Fortune)
"Some experts have suggested that Trump's trademark applications may represent a conflict of interest, as her father remains engaged in trade negotiations with China and she herself serves as a senior advisor to the White House."
Stuart Weitzman Exec Sues Tapestry, Morelli over Sexual Harassment Allegations (The Business of Fashion)
"The owner of fashion brand Stuart Weitzman was sued by a footwear executive who alleged he was sexually harassed by the company's recently departed creative director, Giovanni Morelli."
Eileen Fisher on 34 Years in Sustainable Fashion (Digiday)
"It wasn't the plan that the label would eventually become synonymous with sustainability in the fashion industry. Her goal was simply to do a better job of making clothing that would outlast everything else in her customers' closets."
Kim Jong Un Always Wears the Same Suit — This Is What It Means (Racked)
"The outfit Kim wears is called a Mao suit. Though legend has it that Sun Yat-sen, the father of modern China, created the suit in the early 1900s, Mao Zedong popularised it when he first rose to power in 1949, linking it irrevocably to communism."
These Gender-Neutral Labels to Watch Provide Inclusive Communities Through Clothes (Fashionista)
"The industry has been criticised for not doing enough, as unisex collections often masculinise gender-fluid clothing by simply offering baggy, streetwear-type products."
The sector’s planet-warming emissions inched lower in 2022 thanks to revised data, but they’re still on track to grow by more than 40 percent by 2030, according to a new report.
Textile-to-textile recycling technologies could be a climate game changer for fashion’s environmental footprint. But like renewable energy, they need state support for market efforts to scale, argues Nicole Rycroft.
More than a year after the ultra-fast-fashion company said it would tackle issues of unlawful overtime, 75-hour weeks remain common in its supply chain, Swiss watchdog Public Eye found.
A study published this week found traces of cotton from Xinjiang in nearly a fifth of the products it examined, highlighting the challenges brands face in policing their supply chains even as requirements to do so spread to raw materials from diamonds to leather and palm oil.