Sustainability Pulse #71
Sustainability Trends & News Worth Exploring — Feb 20th, 2023
We buy too many clothes. Can fashion’s secondhand boom change that?
Patagonia, ThredUp, and J.Crew are killing it at resale, but it’s still not curbing people’s voracious shopping habit.
Talk of ‘green-hushing’ is an unhelpful distraction
PARIS – Is adhering to advertising standards guidelines really that difficult? This is the question I ask myself on hearing talk of ‘green-hushing’, the strategy which sees businesses adopt a radio-silence approach to outlining environmental goals and marketing.
Hermès to Pay €4,000 Bonus to Employees As Sales Surge
The French luxury house will pay €13 per share (around €1.4 billion) to shareholders after sales rose 29 percent last year.
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Question for Sustainable Fashion
How to best spend the large sums it will take to cut the fashion industry’s carbon emissions? The Apparel Impact Institute is launching a pre-vetted portfolio of climate solutions to better direct investment.
Hanes undies gets a colorful redesign to win over Gen Z
Hanes is known for its classic tighty whities. Can its colorful new Hanes Originals line sell the brand to a new generation?
Why GANNI is brutally honest with its sustainability program
Danish fashion brand GANNI is taking the long and gruelling route to understanding its carbon and social footprint. Founder Nicolaj Reffstrup is not leaving anything to chance, having implemented 44 ’responsibility goals’ to follow and hiring full-time teams to trace down every supplier and worker.
Innovation, The Main Driver for Change in Textiles
One of the ways of addressing the challenges facing the textile industry right is by embracing the innovative developments of new and improved textile products and processes.
What's Wrong with Fashion's Current Business Models?
To the fashion brands ready to change their business models, there are several steps you can take to change your business models so you can become more sustainable and responsible.
Minecraft and Crocs’s phygital shoe collection allows you to dress down both online and IRL
Crocs teams up with gaming giant Minecraft in new collection, further highlighting the shoe brand’s noteworthy return to popularity.
How Fashion Can Outgrow Overproduction
The reality has always been different in fashion: steep markdowns have been commonplace for decades, the hottest products sell out and aren’t replenished quickly enough, and the industry has built a reputation for creating unnecessary waste.
EPA Announces Initial Program Design of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
Inflation Reduction Act program puts public and private capital to work in communities combatting climate change, creating economic prosperity for all
Fashion Faces Recycling Fees Similar to Other Industries
Fashion brand H&M and waste manager Remondis launch venture to build collecting-and-sorting infrastructure for clothing needed for recycling
New York Is Exposing the Fashion Industry for What It Is: a Climate Nightmare
The state’s Fashion Act seeks to set a new trend of holding big brands accountable for their exploitation of workers and the environment.
Why Fast Fashion is Destroying Our Planet… and Your Wallets
You can keep up with the trends, buy a whole lot, a few hundred dollars worth and rebuild your whole wardrobe. That lasts about six months. Then the clothes start falling apart, the seams ripping, you find holes in the collar of the shirt you just bought.
TikTok "de-influencers" want GenZ to buy less — and more
At a time when consumers are inundated with so-called social media influencers peddling the latest products online, a slew of TikTok users are leveraging their platforms to tell people what not to buy instead.
14 Communications Experts Predict The Biggest Social Media Trends Of 2023
The use of influencer marketing will grow exponentially and move beyond the bleeding-edge innovators into less-mature marketing organizations.
Web3 Business Trends for 2023: Predictions From the Pros
Want to discover what the future of business could look like? Wondering what leaders in the world of Web3 think?
BEYOND THE INTERFACE: ZAIBA JABBAR, FOUNDER OF HERVISIONS, TALKS FEMME-FOCUSED FUTURES
The creative walks Hypebae through her creative journey and how HERVISIONS is transforming contemporary visual culture.
The Future Of Fashion: Exploring How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The Market
Saul Maslavi is CEO of Jovani Fashions, the famous designer of prom dresses, with thousands of wholesale partners across the country.
The Future of Fashion E-Commerce: How Composable Commerce is Driving Innovation
Composable commerce is a next-generation e-commerce architecture that enables businesses to create custom e-commerce experiences by composing and integrating various microservices.
Vivienne Westwood: Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham attend memorial service
The legendary fashion designer and environmental activist died in December aged 81.
From sheep to shop: A Vermont sweater company fights fast fashion
Muriel’s is a mother-and-son garment business based out of a makeshift workshop in Grand Isle, down the road from the island’s state park. The duo sources fleece for its sweaters and sweater-vests from local shepherds, driven by the same small-scale sensibility for which many Vermont craftspeople strive.
Zegna full-year sales hit €1.5 billion as group prepares for Tom Ford acquisition
China losses dragged overall performance, while growth at Thom Browne helped buoy the Italian group, which will take over Tom Ford this year.
2 Ways of Looking at André Leon Talley
On January 27, just over a year after the legendary fashion editor died at the age of 73, Talley’s worldly possessions went up for sale through the first of a series of online auctions at Christie’s. A live auction will be held in New York on February 15. (Proceeds from both go to his former churches, Abyssinian Baptist in New York and Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist in Durham, North Carolina.)
NYFW Street Style Recap: The Fashion Crowd Goes Green
Learn more about the promising hue and shop the green pieces you should buy now.
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