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Fashion Giants Join Forces to Scale Circular Apparel, Footwear
Two new initiatives from Fashion for Good are enlisting industry heavyweights to ‘create a blueprint for systemic change,’ by scaling circular solutions and infrastructure for footwear and textiles. ... View More
Fashion for Good, adidas, Inditex, Target, Zalando Launch Circular Footwear Pilot
Fashion for Good and its four brand partners have joined forces with footwear-recycling innovator FastFeetGrinded to support the scaling of recycled content in footwear. ... View More
Global Fashion Houses, NGOs Call on Industry to Commit to Deforestation-Free Leather
The Deforestation-Free Call to Action for Leather calls on brands and retailers to ensure sourcing of bovine leather from deforestation-free supply chains by 2030 or earlier. ... View More
Mycelium Materials Poised to Leave Conventional Leather Industry Hanging by a Thread
Biotech startups Bolt Threads, Ecovative and Zvnder have discovered how to make the most of mycelium — creating high-quality, sustainable versions of ubiquitous materials such as leather. ... View More
Does Waste Have an Image Problem?
For circularity to become mainstream, where nothing is wasted and everything is fed back into the system, it requires businesses to find value in resources already in circulation — and reframe how they perceive waste in the first place. ... View More
2020’s Top 10 Trends in Purpose — and What They Could Mean for You in 2021
In the midst of all the unrest and uncertainty, where did we see innovation, progress and possibility in 2020? Porter Novelli analyzed a year’s worth of Purpose-driven news, activities, campaigns and announcements; and distilled our 10 need-to-know... View More
How to Pursue Sustainability During COVID-19: A Tactical Guide for Brand Professionals
This global pandemic is critical and companies should dedicate every resource to helping their customers get through it, but in the spirit of protecting ourselves from one existential threat, we shouldn’t let another one go completely unnoticed. ... View More
Trending: In Fashion, What’s Outside Also Counts
New partnerships aim to tackle the fashion industry’s packaging footprint — with circular solutions for polybags and MATCHESFASHION’s new, recyclable boxes furthering the cause. ... View More
Sell Responsibly… or Else? It’s Time to Face (Over)-Consumption and Come Up with Creative Solutions
We shouldn’t lure people into buying more than they need; but rather, help people make it all add up to a more meaningful life. Brands might be able to keep afloat on a short-term strategy and hide behind a cloak of innocence, but every dinosaur st... View More
32 Fashion, Textile Giants Make Pact to Transform Fashion Industry
The companies have signed a Fashion Pact, committing to practical targets together in climate, biodiversity and oceans. The Pact will be presented to heads of state during the G7 meeting this weekend in Biarritz. ... View More
Sportswear, Outdoor Brands Lead on Transparency; Luxury Is Waking Up
On the sixth anniversary of the devastating Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,100 garment workers, Fashion Revolution’s most recent Transparency Index indicates slow progress across the industry. ... View More
SB’19 Paris, Day 2: Virtuous Value Chains, Next-Gen CSR and Redesigning the #GoodLife
Our second day in Paris was chock-full of rich panel discussions with brands trading stories of the evolution of ideas and lessons learned — and still to be learned — on the long, windy road to creating a sustainable consumer economy. ... View More
Changing Behavior, One Reused Item at a Time
Despite inspirational efforts being made across the top fashion brands, we are consuming more clothing, using it for nearly half as long and still filling up our Earth with unwanted and unused clothing and textiles. The existing solution we can utili... View More
‘Round and ‘Round We Finally Go: Why I Believe We’ll Achieve a Circular Economy, Part 1
While a growing number of industries are working to eliminate waste globally, two in particular — which happen to be two of the world’s biggest culprits where waste is concerned — also have me feeling particularly inspired. ... View More
Brands Expand Partnerships, Amplify Messaging in Support of Gender Equality
adidas, Diageo and HP launch new films and campaigns, while PepsiCo tackles gender equality in agriculture for International Women’s Day. ... View More
How Businesses Are Stepping Up to Reforest California
California is still reeling from the series of devastating wildfires that gutted its landscape — again — in the past few months. ... View More
Trending: Fashion Giants Take Further Steps to Create Climate-Friendly Industry
The fashion industry has kicked December off with a bang, launching a number of game-changing initiatives and partnerships aimed at further improving its image by reducing its impacts. ... View More
Fashion for Good, Partnership for Sustainable Textiles Take Shape with Museum, Roadmaps
60 members of the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles have revealed concrete action plans to ensure humane working conditions, greater environmental protection and fair wages in their own companies and in their suppliers’ production facilities. Th... View More
secondtoNAKED, adidas by Stella McCartney Boost Ethical Activewear Market
Earlier this month, adidas by Stella McCartney launched its Fall/Winter 2018 sustainable women’s activewear collection, paying tribute to the power of nature. Designed to equip female athletes whatever the weather, the animal-inspired pieces serve ... View More
adidas, Neste Bolstering Markets for Recycled Plastics
Amidst the anti-plastic frenzy dominating corporate sustainability news lately, adidas and Neste have announced plans to increase their efforts to utilize more waste plastic. ... View More
