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.
"Major Fashion Brands Are Trying to Stop Their Factories in Turkey from Exploiting Syrian Refugees" (Quartz)
"As Syrian refugees continue to pour into Turkey, desperate for any source of income, many are taking jobs in Turkey's garment industry."
"Am I a Fool to Expect More than Corporate Greenwashing?" (The Guardian)
"H&M is launching a recycling week that clashes with a campaign to help exploited workers."
"Women Workers Exploited in India's High End Shoe Industry, Say Campaigners" (Reuters)
"India's growing shoe industry relies on women who work from home, earn less than the minimum wage and lack any legal rights."
"Etsy Wants to Crochet Its Cake, and Eat It Too" (The Cut)
"Can a company upend capitalism without really earning a profit?"
"Let Them Weave Their Own" (The Economist)
"By 2019 the EAC wants to outlaw imports of second-hand clothes. The idea is that ending the trade in old clothes—mostly donated by their former owners in rich countries—will help boost local manufacturing."
France is pressing ahead with a ‘game-changing’ bill that would impose a ‘sin tax’-style penalty on fast-fashion products as high as €10 per item by 2030.
In the weeks since one of the industry’s most promising recycling start-ups filed for bankruptcy, big brands have put more money and more commitment into bringing innovations to market.
Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.
The fast-fashion giant has joined Vargas and TPG to back a new polyester recycling venture following its failed bet on Renewcell.