Sustainability

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How Aesop Plans To Keep It Culty

9 November 2020 • By Rachel Deeley

9 November 2020 • By Rachel Deeley

The luxury skin care company, now a certified B-Corp, has been forced to swiftly rethink how it reaches its customers during the pandemic. Chief Executive Michael O’Keeffe lays out its strategy.

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How Aesop Plans To Keep It Culty

The luxury skin care company, now a certified B-Corp, has been forced to swiftly rethink how it reaches its customers during the pandemic. Chief Executive Michael O’Keeffe lays out its strategy.

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How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand: Masterclass 4 of 5 — Buying Better

5 November 2020 • By BoF Team

5 November 2020 • By BoF Team

What does it take to build a fashion brand that is good for both people and the planet, but still makes business sense? In the next chapter of BoF's five-part masterclass, we'll look at the importance of purchasing practices and how brands can establish supportive partnerships with their suppliers.

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How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand: Masterclass 4 of 5 — Buying Better

What does it take to build a fashion brand that is good for both people and the planet, but still makes business sense? In the next chapter of BoF's five-part masterclass, we'll look at the importance of purchasing practices and how brands can establish supportive partnerships with their suppliers.

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Luxury Sector Recovers in Time for Second Lockdown

5 November 2020 • By Pierre Mallevays

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Luxury Sector Recovers in Time for Second Lockdown

Quarterly results have highlighted a recovery in sales over the summer, but the sector is bracing itself for further lockdowns in Europe and potential post-election turmoil in the US.

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How Can Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Adopt Responsible Logistics Strategies?

15 October 2020 • By BoF Studio

15 October 2020 • By BoF Studio

Sharing DHL’s global insight on responsible logistics strategies, as well as the experience of entrepreneur and designer Emily Bode, BoF identifies how smaller businesses can reimagine logistics to do good and mitigate harm.

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How Can Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Adopt Responsible Logistics Strategies?

Sharing DHL’s global insight on responsible logistics strategies, as well as the experience of entrepreneur and designer Emily Bode, BoF identifies how smaller businesses can reimagine logistics to do good and mitigate harm.

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The Sustainability Goals Chanel, Kering and H&M Could All Agree On

12 October 2020 • By Rachel Deeley

12 October 2020 • By Rachel Deeley

More than 60 fashion companies have signed on to The Fashion Pact launched by Kering's CEO last year, creating an unusually large industry cross-section that's committed to seven new targets to reduce the sector's environmental impact.

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The Sustainability Goals Chanel, Kering and H&M Could All Agree On

More than 60 fashion companies have signed on to The Fashion Pact launched by Kering's CEO last year, creating an unusually large industry cross-section that's committed to seven new targets to reduce the sector's environmental impact.

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When ‘Mea Culpa’ Is the Best Marketing

12 October 2020 • By Aminah Khan

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When ‘Mea Culpa’ Is the Best Marketing

On sustainability, some fashion brands are becoming more comfortable with growing transparency and finding that acknowledging their shortcomings can make for more effective communications than crowing about their achievements.

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How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand: Masterclass 3 of 5 — Tracking and Traceability

8 October 2020 • By BoF Team

8 October 2020 • By BoF Team

What does it take to build a fashion brand that is good for both people and the planet, but still makes business sense? In the next chapter of BoF's five-part masterclass, we'll talk about how and why companies need to get to grips with their supply chain.

BoF Professional Exclusive

How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand: Masterclass 3 of 5 — Tracking and Traceability

What does it take to build a fashion brand that is good for both people and the planet, but still makes business sense? In the next chapter of BoF's five-part masterclass, we'll talk about how and why companies need to get to grips with their supply chain.

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How the Climate Crisis Is Reshaping Luxury

6 October 2020 • By Luca Solca

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How the Climate Crisis Is Reshaping Luxury

Consumers and investors are becoming increasingly concerned about the environment. Luca Solca examines four implications for the luxury sector, from alternative raw materials to which product categories will grow faster.

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Chanel’s Sustainability Financing, Explained

2 October 2020 • By M.C. Nanda

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Chanel’s Sustainability Financing, Explained

Chanel is joining the likes of Burberry and VF Corp in the booming market for sustainable bonds, but Chanel's bond comes with a hefty penalty if it doesn’t hit its green goals, making it a trendsetter.

News & Analysis

Clothes Mountains Build Up as Recycling Breaks Down

30 September 2020 • By Reuters

30 September 2020 • By Reuters

The multi-billion-dollar trade in second-hand clothing that helps prevent the global fashion industry's growing pile of waste going straight to landfill is facing a crisis.

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Clothes Mountains Build Up as Recycling Breaks Down

The multi-billion-dollar trade in second-hand clothing that helps prevent the global fashion industry's growing pile of waste going straight to landfill is facing a crisis.