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.
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Created by BoF’s journalists and editors, in conjunction with our wider network of leading fashion creatives, thought-leaders, and innovators, Masterclasses are in-depth webinars with supporting resources, designed to deliver key learning outcomes on critical industry topics.
Time is running out for the fashion industry to align with global ambitions to curb climate change and establish more responsible business practices. But progress among the industry’s frontrunners is only incremental and outweighed by wider inaction.
In our four-part Masterclass series, the BoF team are joined by a series of experts to unpack the big issues set to shape the landscape for the year ahead and provide actionable solutions. This series is designed for fashion founders, designers and decision-makers who want to understand the key levers for change and plan for action.
Every year, BoF Insights benchmarks fashion’s progress towards a series of critical sustainability goals. With a deadline of 2030, time is running out. But progress among the industry’s frontrunners is only incremental and outweighed by wider inaction, The BoF Sustainability Index 2022 finds. Tackling this challenge requires nothing short of industry transformation.
The fashion industry runs on systemic inequality that prioritises low-cost, high-speed production above worker welfare. Masterclass 1 examines how responsible sourcing practices can establish more stable and resilient supply chains.
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Reducing the fashion industry’s impact will require hundreds of billions of dollars of investment. Masterclass 2 explores what it will take to unlock more spending, where investment is most needed and emerging financing options.
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A rising flood of products marketed as more sustainable is drawing scrutiny and criticism of greenwashing. Masterclass 3 examines how fashion can address these concerns and unpacks emerging regulation.
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Efforts to transform the fashion industry in line with global ambitions to curb climate change and establish more responsible business practices by 2030 have yet to gain sufficient momentum, The BoF Sustainability Index 2022 finds.
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.