Sustainability Pulse #62
Sustainability Trends & News Worth Exploring — December 12th, 2022
What If Buying Used Clothes Was as Easy as Buying New?
A new browser extension wants to make secondhand shopping easier by suggesting used options when a customer searches online for new clothes.
You’re not going to stop shopping for new clothes. Here’s what to do instead.
How would you feel about refraining from buying more than one item of clothing per month?
Pandemic habits and social media have meant some people are mindlessly shopping even more and it's impacted their mental health.
Author Caroline Foran joined The Home Show to discuss her experience of ditching impulse purchases this year.
Richest Consumers Should Stop Buying So Many Clothes, Says Report
“Resizing Fashion for a Fair Consumption Space” argues that shoppers in the wealthiest G20 nations should limit their purchasing to help fight global warming.
Fredrik Timour: "If we don't talk about the money, we won't have change".
Fredrik Timour, the founder of Fashion Innovation Center, in Stockholm, Sweden, is determined to help the fashion industry become more environmentally and economically sustainable.
Timour founded the fashion-tech company Neue. The startup creates microelectronics and software to connect clothes and has become well known for helping fashion brands find cross-collaboration partners in other industries like telecom and gaming.
How Luxury Brands Can Beat Counterfeiters
Despite spending a fortune on legal fees and distribution controls, luxury goods companies struggle to combat counterfeiting. But the success of counterfeiting is rooted in strategic decisions made by luxury firms to outsource manufacturing, emphasize the logo, and raise prices.
What impact do counterfeits have on the fashion industry
Summary:
Counterfeits cause huge losses to both buyers and sellers of original products
Fashion products such as clothes and shoes are among the most replicated items
Marketplaces such as Amazon and Facebook are working to prevent the sale of counterfeit products
Fake products can result in health hazards, loss of image, and slow growth
Move Over Crypto Bros, It's Time To Meet The Women Of Web3
When we think of the metaverse, what comes to mind? For many, it's the connotation of the "crypto bro": a twentysomething male who spends most of his time talking — often condescendingly — about the blockchain economy, making sure to let you know that you're very late to the latest crypto wave.
RESS RELEASE : The Sustainable Apparel Coalition launches Decarbonization Program to drive SBT adoption and reduction in emissions across the fashion industry
Can Fashion Be Profitable Without Growth?
Industry leaders said the goal of sustainability wouldn't happen without changes to the business model and more efforts to educate consumers.
Why Does Fashion Love This Radical Anticapitalist Concept?
“Degrowth” has been the buzzword of sustainable fashion conversations in 2022. But is it a realistic goal when the fashion industry only seems to be getting bigger?
How Stars Like Billie Eilish, Cate Blanchett, Ayo Edebiri and Emma Stone Are Making Red Carpet Fashion Sustainable
More stars are leading an increased push to inspire change by wearing eco-friendly custom looks, choosing vintage pieces and donning previously worn dresses at major events: "People look to us for inspiration."
Sustainability and the Consumer 2021
The complexity of fashion and sustainability, combined with the fact that people have busy lives with competing and often conflicting priorities, makes making a sustainable choice at the point of purchase can be challenging.
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