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From buyer to lecturer: How Wolter Pot is passing on his passion for fashion to the next generation

After years as a buyer at retailer Four Amsterdam, Wolter Pot swapped the corporate world for the classroom. As a fashion design lecturer at Koning Willem I College, he guides students in their creative development, sharing his passion for fashion and craftsmanship. He speaks to FashionUnited about his transition into education, the lessons he...

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Canada Goose achieves 50 percent emissions reduction in FY26 sustainability report

Canada Goose has closed out the first chapter of its sustainability strategy with a 50 percent cut in market-based Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from its FY19 baseline, approval of its climate targets by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and full diversion of post-consumer warranty waste from landfill in FY26. The milestones...

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Can Andy Burnham mend fashion's broken bridge to Europe?

Andy Burnham entered Downing Street on Monday as the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade. On the same morning, the fashion industry received a stark accounting of what those ten years have cost. Exclusive wholesale data released by JOOR revealed how thoroughly the Brexit referendum rewired trade between UK and EU fashion businesses. EU...

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LFW SS27: BFC announces provisional schedule

The spring/summer 2027 edition of London Fashion Week, scheduled to take place from September 17 to 21, will be anchored by the return of Alexander McQueen and Mulberry. The British Fashion Council, led by chief executive Laura Weir, has announced that the provisional schedule for the September showcase will see Alexander McQueen’s creative...