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Hudson’s Bay invests 30 million dollars in new social impact platform

Hudson’s Bay has launched a new social impact platform, called Hudson’s Bay Charter for Change, which aims to accelerate racial equity and inclusion in the fashion retailer’s home country of Canada. The platform has been launched through the Hudson Bay Foundation with a commitment of 30 million Canadian dollars over the coming 10 years. It will...

4 May 2021

People

Sports Direct launches Equal Play initiative for women in sport

Sports Direct is committing to ‘equal play’ as it aims to spearhead a new era for women in sports. The initiative has been informed by a new report by Sports Direct charity partner Women in Sport, which calls for immediate action to address the challenges facing female athletes at all levels. Beckie Stanion, chief marketing officer at Sports...

29 Mar 2021

Retail

55 UK retailers pledge to improve diversity and inclusion following BRC report

Fifty-five UK retailers have pledged to take “decisive action to improve diversity practices across the retail industry” after signing up to a diversity and inclusion (D&I) charter led by the British Retail Consortium (BRC). By signing the charter, the retailers commit to appointing diversity and inclusion executives; improving recruitment...

25 Mar 2021

Business

Creatives Want Change calls on Black teens to apply for fashion scholarship

“I am a unicorn. I should not be here,” says Randy Cousin, SVP of Product Concept and People’s Place program at Tommy Hilfiger, of being a Black creative in the fashion industry. During last summer’s Black Lives Matter uprising while in conversation with friend Joe Medved, founder of recruiting firm Joe’s Blackbook and the annual scholarship...

8 Mar 2021

Video

Adaptive Fashion webinar series by the CFDA

On January 19th 2021, CFDA hosted its first webinar as part of the Adaptive Fashion series in partnership with Runway of Dreams and Gamut Management. The speakers included Mindy Scheier - the Founder of Runway of Dreams, and a panel of guests, who shared their insights, experiences, and perspective on fashion as People with Disabilities. In the...

26 Feb 2021

Video

FASHINNOVATION Worldwide Talks 2021 - Fashion is NOW

The world of fashion is and always has been at the forefront of change – both through cultural adaptation and also economically. In 2020, the human trajectory and the fashion industry were drastically changed. However, what is important is that we now look ahead and re-create. The feeling of “living in the now” became a crucial way of thinking....

23 Feb 2021

Fashion

CFDA launches initiative to nurture Black talent

The CFDA has launched a multi-faceted initiative to create opportunities for underrepresented communities in fashion and addressing the decades-long systematic exclusion of Black talent in the industry. Called IMPACT, the aim is to identify, connect, support, and nurture Black and Brown creatives and professionals in fashion, furthering CFDA’s...

23 Feb 2021

Fashion

New CFDA report details inequity in fashion industry

To coincide with Black History Month the CFDA released The State of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Fashion Report, a 36-page body of research begun in 2018 in partnership with PVH Corp. It outlines the myriad injustices in the fashion industry and seeks to elevate the voices of its underrepresented. Allyship and intersectionality are also...

8 Feb 2021

Fashion

H&M investigated by Swedish Government for racism in homeland stores

H&M is being investigated by Sweden’s government Equality Ombudsman (DO) as it faces allegations of racism in its homeland stores. The high street giant was the subject of a report by Aftonbladet, a Swedish broadsheet, which showed footage from a hidden camera when a foreign woman was denied an exchange of purchased items without a receipt,...

14 Dec 2020

Fashion

Diversity for a new decade, key dos and don'ts for brands

With protests against police brutality having occurred this summer in fifty states and in twenty countries, and in which, according to theNY Times, between 15 and 26 million Americans participated, equality is a global mandate. No brand has the luxury of remaining on the sidelines on this issue or they will face serious repercussions. This is...

17 Nov 2020

Fashion

BFC announces Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee

The British Fashion Council has announced the launch of its Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee as part of its “long-term plan to fight prejudice and discrimination and galvanise the industry into action”. The committee is made up of industry and British Fashion Council representatives and its role will be to address "key challenges...

17 Sep 2020

Fashion

The CFDA Awards were not the Oscars of the fashion industry

New York Fashion Week ends today with the previously postponed CFDA Awards to have been a highlight of the five-day event. CNN heralds the annual American fashion ceremony as the “Oscars of the fashion world,” but the reality was anything but. Livestreamed via CFDA’s Runway360 platform, the CFDA was heavily criticized last month when the New...

16 Sep 2020