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.
Why Aren't Ethical Fashion Brands Catering to Plus-Size Women? (Refinery 29)
"If turnover was 10 times larger then smaller brands could afford to put 4-5 percent of their buy into the larger sizes; but while business are still so small it is not viable."
Retail Workers Fight to Get a Cut in the Era of E-Commerce (Racked)
"Sales associates often have to do the pull and prepare of an online pick-up order and handle returns purchased online without being compensated."
Sustainable Style: Will Gen Z Help the Fashion Industry Clean Up its Act? (The Guardian)
"Young consumers are driving a shift in attitudes. 44 percent of the 17-26 age range said they would like to see more eco-friendly fabrics used in clothes."
Is Consumer-Friendly Activism a Sign of Feminist Progress — Or Just a Sellout? (Elle)
"Feminism, the word, may be fashionable, but the hard work of advocating for and creating an egalitarian world seems as unfashionable as ever."
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Fashion Wakes Up to the Older Woman (The Guardian)
"Over-50s already account for around 47 percent of all UK consumer spending, so there is an economic incentive for businesses to target mature customers."
How Four Fashion Design Schools are Teaching Sustainability (Teen Vogue)
"Parsons, Savannah College of Art and Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising all incorporate sustainability into their curriculums."
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.