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Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The Canadian luxury outerwear brand said Thursday it will stop manufacturing products containing natural fur by the end of 2022, the latest in a flurry of fashion brands, including American department store group Neiman Marcus and outerwear label Canada Goose, to say they would abandon the material in the past week.
The announcement comes as part of Moose Knuckles long-term sustainability strategy.
Among other things, the brand also committed to completely remove conventional cotton and virgin polyester and nylon from its products and fully mitigate its carbon emissions by the end of 2025.
Editor’s Note: This article was revised on 1 July 2021. A previous version of this article stated that the company would stop selling any fur products by the end of 2022. That is incorrect. The company will stop production of fur in that timeframe.
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.