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#BoFLIVE: Solving Fashion’s Packaging Problem

As the pandemic-driven surge in fashion e-commerce sends more and more cardboard boxes and plastic bags to landfills, a growing number of companies have radical ideas about how to reduce packaging waste. Exclusively for BoF Professional members, we speak to a host of experts to unpack their strategies.

BoF Team

31 March 2021

Tuesday, April 6 at 16:00 BST / 11:00 EDT

Featuring Jakob Dworsky, Co-Founder, Asket; Jesse Genet, Chief Executive, Lumi and BoF’s Brian Baskin in conversation with Lauren Sherman.

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Sustainability

Better Cotton to Expand Due Diligence After Brazil Deforestation Investigation

Fashion’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier said it found no evidence of non-compliance at farms covered by its standard, but acknowledged weaknesses in its monitoring approach.

Chanel’s Latest Legal Battleground: Upcycling

As they move to protect their intellectual property, big brands are coming into conflict with a growing class of up-and-coming designers working with refashioned designer gear.

Fashion’s Virgin Plastic Problem

The industry needs to ditch its reliance on fossil-fuel-based materials like polyester in order to meet climate targets, according to a new report from Textile Exchange.

Are H&M and Zara Harming Forests in Brazil?

Cotton linked to environmental and human rights abuses in Brazil is leaking into the supply chains of major fashion brands, a new investigation has found, prompting Zara-owner Inditex to send a scathing rebuke to the industry’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier.