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.
"Levi's Is Radically Redefining Sustainability" (Fast Company)
"For Paul Dillinger, head of global product innovation at Levi Strauss & Co, it's not enough to simply plant a few trees to offset carbon dioxide or use less toxic dyes.
"Sophisticated Shoplifting Gangs Are Costing US Retailers $30 Billion a Year" (Quartz)
"Organised retail crime might not seem as urgent a threat as armed robberies or drug trafficking. But it's that type of thinking that is making shoplifting and counterfeiting big business for criminals across the US."
"Report: Retail CEOs Head to Washington to Try to Kill US Border Tax" (Reuters)
"Their input has more urgency as US President Donald Trump is finalising his own tax plan that he plans to unveil in the coming weeks."
"How Target's New Chemical Strategy Could Transform Consumer Products Retail" (Retail Dive)
"What we're seeing in this area is more and more companies having to look at not just the products they create, but also at their supply chain."
"How Condé Nast Learned to Love Tangling With Trump" (Bloomberg)
"In the melee of coverage before and after the election, no glossy magazine publisher has been more publicly invested in swinging hard against Donald Trump than Condé Nast."
Fashion’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier said it found no evidence of non-compliance at farms covered by its standard, but acknowledged weaknesses in its monitoring approach.
As they move to protect their intellectual property, big brands are coming into conflict with a growing class of up-and-coming designers working with refashioned designer gear.
The industry needs to ditch its reliance on fossil-fuel-based materials like polyester in order to meet climate targets, according to a new report from Textile Exchange.
Cotton linked to environmental and human rights abuses in Brazil is leaking into the supply chains of major fashion brands, a new investigation has found, prompting Zara-owner Inditex to send a scathing rebuke to the industry’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier.