Sustainability

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.

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Chanel Issues Bond Linked To Climate Targets

25 September 2020 • By Reuters

25 September 2020 • By Reuters

The luxury giant raised a $699 million bond with clauses linked to its environmental goals.

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Chanel Issues Bond Linked To Climate Targets

The luxury giant raised a $699 million bond with clauses linked to its environmental goals.

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Amazon Wants You To Know What Products Are Sustainable

23 September 2020 • By Sarah Kent

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Amazon Wants You To Know What Products Are Sustainable

The e-commerce giant will start labelling products that meet select sustainability certifications on its US website, joining a growing list of companies seeking to target conscious consumers.

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How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand — Designing for Sustainability

22 September 2020 • By BoF Team

22 September 2020 • By BoF Team

Catch up on the second installment of BoF's new five-part online learning series to find out how to embed sustainable values into the creative process.

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How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand — Designing for Sustainability

Catch up on the second installment of BoF's new five-part online learning series to find out how to embed sustainable values into the creative process.

Op-Ed | What Consumers Really Think About Sustainability

22 September 2020 • By Sarah Willersdorf and Robbin Mitchell

Op-Ed | What Consumers Really Think About Sustainability

Consumers’ mixed signals on sustainability pose tough but surmountable obstacles for fashion brands, argue Sarah Willersdorf and Robbin Mitchell.

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Fashion's Greenwashing Problem Begins with Bad Data

16 September 2020 • By Sarah Kent

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Fashion's Greenwashing Problem Begins with Bad Data

Fashion is doubling down on ambitious promises to clean up its environmental impact, but bad and misleading data are complicating efforts to build a more sustainable industry.

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Can Emerging Designers and Technology Reimagine Fashion’s Creative Processes?

14 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

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Can Emerging Designers and Technology Reimagine Fashion’s Creative Processes?

BoF speaks to four emerging designers who are experimenting with Microsoft technologies to innovate their creative process with regards to waste, aesthetics and product.

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Microsoft’s Mission to Empower Fashion to Reimagine Creative Processes

14 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

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Microsoft’s Mission to Empower Fashion to Reimagine Creative Processes

Exploring how state-of-the-art technology can transform creativity and inform industry transformation, Microsoft is placing its innovations in the hands of celebrated emerging designers.

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How Fashion's Sustainability Targets Measure Up

14 September 2020 • By Rachel Deeley

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How Fashion's Sustainability Targets Measure Up

After weathering the initial shock of the coronavirus crisis, many fashion companies have started to publish their sustainability goals for the next five to 10 years. But these initiatives risk falling short of an industry-wide imperative to drastically reduce environmental impact within the next decade.

News & Analysis

Amazon Buys 1,800 Electric Vans in Latest Green Effort

28 August 2020 • By Bloomberg

28 August 2020 • By Bloomberg

Electric vehicles are a major piece of Amazon’s bid to become a net-zero carbon emitter by 2040, an ambitious goal for a company that historically had lagged behind its retail and technology peers on the environment.

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Amazon Buys 1,800 Electric Vans in Latest Green Effort

Electric vehicles are a major piece of Amazon’s bid to become a net-zero carbon emitter by 2040, an ambitious goal for a company that historically had lagged behind its retail and technology peers on the environment.