Sustainability Pulse #68
Sustainability Trends & News Worth Exploring — January 29th, 2023
How Retailers Use Sustainability and Modern Marketing to Drive Brand Loyalty
The article discusses how sustainable retailers are using eco-friendly practices to differentiate themselves and gain customer loyalty. Sustainable fashion retailers can build lasting customer relationships by using data-driven insights and predictive systems to offer customers what they want in unique and innovative ways.
The 22 Best Baby Clothes Brands and Retailers to Shop Now
Despite little ones popping up all over your feed, your family, and maybe your own household (!), the best baby clothes can be pretty tricky to nail down. Especially if it's your first go at parenthood or if you're looking to impress loved ones with a thoughtful newborn gift.
Sustainable Fashion, Gentrification + Urban Design: National Building Museum Hosts Architecture & Design Film Festival
From January 26-29, the National Building Museum (NBM) will present the fifth annual Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF), featuring 16 films that explore issues of gentrification, sustainability and other topics pertinent to the D.C. development landscape.
Is vegan fashion a greenwashing con?
Peek under the surface of ‘sustainable’ fashion’s sleek new vegan veneer and its ethical credentials are not what they seem.
Who Will Take Your Old Cashmere?
Ralph Lauren is underwriting a new recycling program as it ramps up its sustainability efforts. Will consumers use it?
Prada's Lorenzo Bertelli sets out 'soft transition' to new leadership
Italian fashion group Prada is hiring former Luxottica chief Andrea Guerra to smooth the transition to the next generation of the family, Lorenzo Bertelli, son of Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli said on Tuesday.
Stylist Accuses Fast-Fashion Brand Shein of Stealing Her Face To Turn Into a Dress Design
Can Shein just not for once?
The curious case of the sudden Carhartt boom
The classic workwear company has always been popular. But almost overnight, millions of new customers have ushered in a new era of quiet hype.
Hate fast fashion? You can compost this new streetwear clothing line
Fast fashion is big business, but it is also a big polluter, responsible for about 10% of global carbon emissions. Roughly 70% of the $3 trillion fashion industry is comprised of articles made from synthetics or petrochemicals.
Retail CEO crisis: Why the industry's top job is suddenly the hardest to fill
At least 10 large retail companies have lost their CEOs in recent months.
The turnover has roots in the pandemic, when e-commerce boomed and supply chains were disrupted.
As the pandemic winds down and a possible recession approaches, new skills are in demand.
Strikes, inflation and fast fashion fails: How ecommerce fared over Christmas 2022
While December – traditionally the UK’s busiest shopping month of the year – should have been booming for online retailers, the true picture was painfully different, with ecommerce sales actually falling by 2.9%, compared to the previous month.
Zalando CEO Robert Gentz: ‘We are building the AWS of the fashion world’
European fashion powerhouse Zalando’s CEO and co-founder Robert Gentz said that the company is moving from being an e-commerce retailer to a platform provider for the fashion industry with data science at its core.
Can Fashion Stop Greenwashing?
Big brands are changing the way they talk about sustainability following a regulatory crackdown in Europe. But exactly how companies should be required to substantiate their eco-marketing claims remains hotly debated.
At Couture Fashion Week, a Controversy
The week began with a debate about Schiaparelli’s use of imitation animal heads.
Sharing A Vision For Smart, Sustainable Fashion
As technology becomes a bigger fixture at institutional industry events, fashion is finding new sources of support in adjusting to the demands of digital transformation.
3 sustainability insights for industry and government leaders
When it comes to sustainable enterprises, leaders must consider meaningful goals, consumer preferences, and the partnership of management and technology.
Fashion designer Thom Browne scores a major victory against Adidas
NPR's A Martinez speaks with designer Thom Browne, who won a trademark infringement lawsuit against Adidas over his use of stripes on his clothing. Adidas has filed more than 80 such lawsuits.
How Canada Goose turned its stores into galleries for Inuit art
Canada Goose may be a luxury parka brand, but it has big ambitions regarding acquiring Canadian art.
PRESS RELEASE – Sustainable Apparel Coalition to Host Planet Textiles at ITMA 2023
Join industry leaders and experts at Planet Textiles 2023 to explore technology innovations and drive sustainability improvements in global supply chains at the world's largest textile and garment technology exhibition, ITMA 2023 in Milan, Italy.
Your stuff is actually worse now
How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.
How these two women found their niche in Web3
Dasha Kova and Jamie Schuppert of Web3 social media start-up Niche chat to SiliconRepublic.com about how they became Web3 evangelists.
How can Chat GPT be Used for Fashion?
A chatbot that can not only hold a full conversation but also answer your questions about pretty much any topic. Chat GPT by Open AI is now out in the wild. And it’s pretty impressive. How can we make use of this technology for fashion?
Fashion meets privacy: This gaudy clothing line can ‘hide’ wearers from surveillance cameras
Italian fashion-tech startup Cap_able describes their Manifesto Collection as a “wearable algorithm to protect our identity.” It uses a technological system capable of transposing images (called adversarial patches) onto a knitted fabric that can be used to deceive so-called “people detectors” in real time.
The year of normalisation: 2023’s top fashion-tech predictions
Better infrastructure, tech that supplements rather than shouts and new uses for AI are on the horizon as metaverse and Web3 technologies converge and mature.
Fashion Chatbots. Do They Really Work?
Fashion chatbots are also called intelligent assistants or AI stylists. They are computer programs that conduct and manage a dialogue by exchanging text or even audio messages.
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