Canada’s Competition Bureau Opens Greenwashing Investigation of Lululemon
A complaint by climate-advocacy group Stand.earth prompted the inquiry.
After generative AI’s breakout year in 2023, The State of Fashion 2024 examines emerging use cases across creative industries, including fashion.
Digital platforms are working to bring fashion’s deadstock materials out of dusty warehouses and make them easy to buy and sell online, but they face an industry used to doing things the old-fashioned way.
A giant investment from Softbank in 2021 turbocharged expansion plans at Vuori, which is now eyeing global expansion and a takeover of its customers’ closets. But Lululemon, Nike and a host of direct-to-consumer competitors stand in its way.
Late last month, leading materials start-up Bolt threads said it had paused operations for its leather alternative Mylo. The company’s struggle to raise funds points to deeper challenges for the sector, writes Kenneth Pucker.
Late last month, leading materials start-up Bolt threads said it had paused operations for its leather alternative Mylo. The company’s struggle to raise funds points to deeper challenges for the sector, writes Kenneth Pucker.
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Synthetic stones now make up 10 percent of the diamond market, highlighting the ways in which new materials are rewriting the rules of what is considered luxury.
Material choices, garment construction and manufacturing processes can make a big difference to reducing much of the polluting particles clothes shed.
From products made of recycled plastic to take-back programmes, some of fashion’s favourite sustainability solutions are problematic, argues Beth Esponnette.
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A complaint by climate-advocacy group Stand.earth prompted the inquiry.
After months of negotiation over its first contract and proposed layoffs, the union representing employees of Vanity Fair, Vogue and GQ reached a deal with Condé Nast ahead of the Met Gala, where union members were threatening to make a scene.
The Japanese skincare company has recruited the likes of softball player AJ Andrews and Anna Leigh Waters to reach new audiences and grow awareness.
Spanish beauty and fragrance group Puig Brands SA shares rose after the company and its founding family raised €2.6 billion ($2.8 billion) in an initial public offering, in Europe’s biggest listing so far this year.
The former Public School and DKNY designer will launch the cap brand’s first apparel line.
Nordstrom shares rose 6 percent on the news, giving the company a market value of about $3.3 billion.
A double-digit decline was attributed to the brand’s distribution changes.
Spatch will debut on May 4 with a nine-piece collection of skin-perfecting products designed for professional and consumer use.