Luxury Brand Dior Faces Heat from China's Internet
Cultural appropriation vs appreciation: Can luxury brands in China tell the difference?
SOUNDING BOARD: Dior, yet another luxury house, faces heat from China's internet—this time for basing the design on a pleated skirt that resembles a traditional garment. Brand experts discuss if high fashion has an appropriation problem.
Moving From 3D To A New Digital Product Creation Ecosystem
For fashion to truly scale its Digital Product Creation ambitions, the industry must switch from thinking about 3D as something to buy into, to recognizing that the full potential of DPC requires a deeper commitment.
‘Cancer Alley’ a Cautionary Tale for Fashion’s Polyester Love Affair
Polyester isn’t just helping fuel the climate crisis, a new report warned Tuesday, but it could also threaten human health.
The Next Generation: How Luxury Brands Are Adapting To The Challenge Of Younger Audiences
Although Millennials and Gen Z have had their differences, they have one major thing in common for the luxury industry – they are both making up more and more of luxury brands’ customer bases. Millennials are expected to make up to 50% of the whole luxury market by 2025, and from February 2021 to February 2022, Gen Z and Millennial luxury purchases made up 60% and 63% of the total luxury market sales respectively.
Farfetch backs $3M seed funding of this female-founded digital wardrobe platform
London-based digital wardrobe and clothing repairs platform Save Your Wardrobe has recently secured $3 million in a seed funding round. With this, the company claims to have scored the largest seed investment round for a circular wardrobe platform in the country.
Co-founder Tracy Sun on Poshmark’s ‘more intense focus’ on customers since going public
Sun helped build the social commerce marketplace in 2011 and now holds the title of svp of seller experience at Poshmark, a newly-created role she’s had for about a year. According to Sun, since Poshmark’s inception, the company has prioritized putting the customer first.
Buy Now Pay Later: Debt Trap or Tool for Sustainable Shopping?
We wouldn’t be so quick to take out a car loan if we thought we would throw out the vehicle in 12 months. But consumers are taking out loans for fast fashion items repeatedly in much the same way. So, why have so many young consumers adopted these services in just a few years?
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The end of summer is here and sales from sustainable brands are here. This is your last chance to get our sustainable knitwear at up to 75% off.
HANIA New York is a luxury knitwear collection founded by Anya Cole in 2012 and knit by hand by craftswomen in New York City, infusing contemporary style into a centuries-old tradition. At the core of the brand’s mission is a focus on empowering women, across the five boroughs to ply a trade that they love and to celebrate the continuation of traditional crafts in the heart of the pulsating city. Each collection is crafted by a network of local female knitters that Hania has found from across the five boroughs of New York City, enabling them to utilize and enhance the skills they have honed over the course of their lives.
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Can't Stop Shopping? This Doctor Explains Why We Impulse Buy Now More Than Ever.
Resisting some of our favorite vices has become increasingly difficult in difficult times.
“Help, I’m a secondhand shopaholic”: it may be sustainable, but slow fashion makes a bargain hard to resist
Charity shops and secondhand clothing apps might be better for the environment, but they can still do some serious damage to your wallet, says Stylist’s Amy Beecham.
Jersey woman with global fashion success says there is 'life after addiction'
Lauren has now been clean of drugs for 11 years. She wants people to know that there is always a life after addiction.
"There is hope out there if you do reach out. It's a shameful disease, but if we're trapped in our shame you can't get help and that's why I talk about it because I don't want there to be a stigma around it because the louder I recover, the less people die quietly."
Why wearing vintage clothing is more necessary than ever
Fashion’s addiction to newness is destroying to the planet and the industry needs to redefine its relationship to the past.
Clothing company empowering women survivors of domestic violence and addiction
One in five women have experienced domestic violence, according to the CDC, and that number has risen during the pandemic due to lockdowns.
Cabi Clothing officials have made it their mission to use their brand to positively impact families through their Heart of Cabi foundation during these difficult times.
GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE FASHION MARKET 2022 BY MANUFACTURERS, REGIONS, TYPE AND APPLICATION, FORECAST TO 2028
The Sustainable Fashion market report is helpful for industry players, investors, consultants, business strategists, researchers, and all those who is having any kind of interest or are planning to venture into the Sustainable Fashion market in any way. So get a copy of the report!
Achieving The Holy Trinity Of Fashion Retailing: Desirable, Affordable and Sustainable
Despite launching in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, OMNES has built a large word-of-mouth following and is expected to reach £6m in sales this year – all through its website.
Forward Thinking on the sustainability revolution in textiles and the fashion industry with Edwin Keh.
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush talks to Edwin Keh, the CEO of the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel.
Helping the planet through sustainable fashion
Fabric is precious. Our best outfits are kept for special occasions. Can we help the planet with the clothes choices we make? Lucianne Tonti, author of "Sundressed: Natural fibers and the future of fashion" reveals with Indira Naidoo how we can be more aware of the sustainable fashion choices.
Sustainable Fashion Trends to Watch This Year
The fashion industry's sustainability has always been envisioned but not fully achieved. Here are some of the sustainable fashion trends to look out for this year
Will a Recession Stunt Sustainable Fashion?
The last major downturn in 2008 was a huge setback for an emerging movement. But this time, shifts in both consumer and business culture mean things are likely to be different.
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