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Sustainability Trends & News Worth Exploring — December 4th, 2022
CEO Of Balenciaga's Parent Company Owns Site That Sells Child Sex Mannequins With Erect Penises On Their Face
Balenciaga was dragged across the internet when the fashion brand released a campaign featuring young girls holding teddy bears wearing bondage gear and standing on top of court papers from a landmark Supreme Court case that focused on child pornography.
Innovation Intervention: Demystifying Sustainability Legislation
As attention turns to the inward truth behind fashion's outward commitments to environment and ethics, how will real regulation move the needle? And can technology help keep brands ahead of the curve?
TRANSFORMERS CALLS FOR UNITY IN CHEMICAL REGULATION
A new report by Transformers Foundation, a denim-industry group that seeks to better the supply chain, provides a glimpse into the murky world of chemical auditing in the fashion industry.
Combatting Fast Fashion: How Compostable Clothing Can Help The Environment
A slate of brands are marketing clothing that they say can break down in your backyard.
The exec behind Adidas' partnership with Kanye West just released a biodegradable sneaker expected to be a 'game changer' for the industry
Unless Collective, cofounded by Eric Liedtke, on Thursday unveiled its first sneaker.
Like the startup's apparel, the shoes are biodegradable and contain no plastic.
An analyst called the sneaker a "game changer" given the industry's addiction to plastic.
The State of Fashion 2023: Holding onto growth as global clouds gather
In 2023, the global fashion industry will need to weather inflation while finding opportunities in shifting consumer patterns, channel and digital marketing strategies, and manufacturing approaches.
Can Fashion Redesign Itself, Digitally?
Fashion's objectives for the next twelve months are a mixture of raw survival, reinvention, and real opportunity. So what role will technology play in enabling them?
In the world of Web3 fashion, who defines taste?
Digital fashion can be fantastical as well as cartoonish. As brands lean in, a cultural clash is forming around what counts as good style in metaverse spaces.
Fashion in the Metaverse: What Avatars Are Wearing
Natalia Modenova and Daria Shapovalova, co-founders of digital fashion retailer DressX, believe style is genuinely important—even in a virtual world
Will We Ever Be Able to Recycle Our Clothes Like an Aluminum Can?
A new factory operated by Renewcell, a textile recycling company in Sweden, is the first step in turning old clothes into new, high-quality fashion.
The State Of Fashion Report—How Accurately Does It Represent The Fashion Industry?
The State of Fashion 2023 report has launched, with industry members eager to learn its findings; but history shows it should first be met with a healthy dose of caution.
EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Legislation Adopted
The rules will begin applying from the beginning of 2024 for large public-interest companies with over 500 employees, followed by companies with more than 250 employees or €40 million in revenue in 2025, and listed SMEs in 2026.
EU unveils plans to cut Europe's plastic and packaging waste
Draft regulations would ban mini-shampoo bottles and throwaway cups, with push towards reuse over recycling.
How The Fashion Impact Fund Is Fashioning Change
The Fashion Impact Fund is one such initiative. It has been established to support women in fashion, to help not only make those fashion dreams a reality, but to pave the way for a better industry for all.
The art of looking back to inform the future of Welsh wool: A conversation with Kate Fletcher and Mathilda Tham
For this week's Fashion Roundtable LTD Informer, Meg Pirie enter into a thought-provoking conversation with Mathilda Tham and Kate Fletcher, two of the most cited authors on sustainability in the textile and fashion sector. They discussed Wales' regional fibre flock being wool, localism and authenticity in the face of the climate crisis.
Sustainable and PFAS-Free Snowboard and Ski Gear
Are you accidentally poisoning the water, soil, animals, and even your friends whenever you go skiing or snowboarding?
Why Crowds Rush to Shop on Black Friday
A psychologist explains why so many love the excitement of shopping on Black Friday and what to do if you experience buyer's remorse.
What Is Neuromarketing? How to Use It in Your Marketing Strategy
According to Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences, we have two brains. The rational brain only influences our decisions, but the primal unconscious brain drives attention, trust, memorization, and intuition.
Millions of Brits will avoid festive get-togethers - because of stress of what to wear
Millions are avoiding festive get-togethers this year because they're too stressed about what to wear - with many concerned about "splashing" out on a new outfit due to the cost-of-living crisis. A study of 2,000 adults, who go to Christmas-related social occasions, found 27 percent have bailed on an event after struggling to decide on an outfit.
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