Week in Review | Natalie Massenet named Chairman of BFC, Going Global, Back in the Tourist Business

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Week in Review September 3-7

BoF Exclusive | Natalie Massenet to be named Chairman of BFC (BoF Exclusive) “The Business of Fashion has learned that Natalie Massenet, founder of pioneering fashion e-commerce website Net-a-Porter, is soon to be named the new chairman of the British Fashion Council (BFC), replacingHarold Tillman, who has been chairman of the organisation since 2008.” Finding Your M.O. | Part 7: Going Global (Education) “Today’s

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Ethical high fashion, Michael Kors’ gain, Social media issues, Website watch, McQueen immortalised

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Masai beaders by Chloé Mukai | Source: IHT

Bags Made by Hand, in East Africa (IHT) “At the heart of the African fashion collectives is Simone Cipriani, an Italian from his country’s leather industry who has made it a mission for the United Nations to develop an Ethical Fashion Initiative at the International Trade Center in Geneva. (The I.T.C. is a joint body of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.)” Luxury Designer Struts Its Stuff With Nearly

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Op-Ed | Can Ethical Fashion Really Be Fashionable?

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Vivienne Westwood in Kenya | Photo: Juergen Teller

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Fashion is driven by desire. But ethical fashion has been driven by — well, what exactly? A wish to semaphore that one is a caring kind of person while walking through life in pleather shoes? There are, of course, style-setters so chic they can rock a hand-loomed yak hair poncho, being good while looking great. The writer is not one of those people. The writer is, however, a veteran of more than 25 years on

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The Long View | Simone Cipriani Says Ethical Fashion is Good Business

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Simone Cipriani, Andreas Kronthaler, Vivienne Westwood, Federico Marchetti | Source: The Ethical Fashion Programme

FLORENCE, Italy — Simone Cipriani spearheads the Ethical Fashion initiative of The International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation. Connecting “the world’s most marginalised people to the top of fashion’s value chain for mutual benefit,” it enables communities of artisans and micro-manufacturers — the majority of them women — to thrive in association with the talents of the

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