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Vestiaire Collective opens new Paris headquarters

Luxury resale platform Vestiaire Collective has opened its new headquarters in Paris featuring an innovative, eco-designed space that puts employee wellbeing at the forefront and offers a new flex-office approach to a hybrid model between the office and remote working. The B Corp certified company has transformed a historical Parisian building...

23 May 2022

Fashion

Fashinnovation's 2nd Spring Salon Dinner Gathers Top Fashion Leaders to Discuss Sustainability in Fashion.

The 2nd edition of the Spring Studios X Fashinnovation Dinner Series took place on May 12th with the goal of discussing the problem of sustainability in the current global fashion landscape. Guests included model Brana Dane, designer Norma Kamali, executive Lewis Perkins and founder/tech leader Sinead Bovell, among others. Fashinnovation, the...

19 May 2022

Fairs

First Denim Show Mumbai focuses on sustainability and innovations

The debut Mumbai edition of the Denim Show started on 12th May and will end on 14th May. More than 120 exhibitors mainly from India are currently showing at Jio World Convention Centre at BKC, among them Hyosung India, Jindal Worldwide, Arvind, Ginni International, Raymond UCO Denim, Bhaskar Denim, LNJ Denim, Oswal Denims, KG Denim, Nandan...

13 May 2022

FashionFeatured

Mulberry launches its first carbon-neutral range

Mulberry is continuing its commitment to becoming net-zero by 2035 with the launch of its first carbon-neutral collection, the ‘Lily Zero’. The ‘Lily Zero’ comprises 12 styles, which are fully carbon-neutral from field to shop floor, crafted in Mulberry’s carbon-neutral Somerset factories using carbon-neutral leather from a tannery in Germany,...

12 May 2022

Business

Third Sustainable Apparel Forum focuses on engagement and collaboration

For the third time, policy makers, industry leaders, brand representatives and fashion campaigners from Bangladesh and abroad gathered in Dhaka to accelerate the momentum for achieving more sustainability in the Bangladesh apparel industry. More than 50 speakers and 20 green growth exhibitors from over 20 countries participated in the...

12 May 2022

BusinessFeatured

LVMH’s Nona Source opens its first UK showroom

Nona Source, the established luxury fabric resale platform, which re-values deadstock fabrics and leathers from LVMH Fashion and Leather Goods Maisons, has opened its first UK showroom at The Mills Fabrica in London. The start-up was launched last year to serve the creative community, selling surplus fabrics from the LVMH fashion and leather...

11 May 2022

Fashion

The fashion industry could become 80 per cent circular by 2030

Conversations around fashion have also become synonymous with conversations around sustainability. While fashion, of course, would like to be more eco-conscious, the pathway to that isn’t overnight. Many companies have implemented progress plans to get their supply chains and products to be mostly sustainable within the next five to ten years....

9 May 2022

BusinessFeatured

Sustainability round-up April 2022

On 22nd April, the world celebrated another Earth Day, which is intended to encourage a general appreciation of nature and a rethinking of our consumer behaviour. The fashion industry also timed some initiatives accordingly, such as the publication of impact tools (Parade, Vestiaire Collective) and new, more sustainable collections (Shein, Ugg,...

9 May 2022

Fashion |Report Featured

Fashion industry to double down on tech investment to stay competitive

Last week Bored Ape Yacht Club, a non-fungible token (NFT) collection built on the Ethereum blockchain, sold the biggest metaverse NFT project to date, with over 320 million dollars of assets sold in one mint. The news comes as fashion companies are set to invest record amounts in technology, nearly doubling their stake from 1.6 percent in 2021...

3 May 2022

Retail

Nordstrom donated 40,000 pairs of shoes and 17,000 winter coats last year

Nordstrom last week released its 2021 Impact Report, which shares a look back at the previous year and the progress the company made towards its 2025 Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging goals. The company said it donated more than 40,000 pairs of shoes and 17,000 winter coats to kids in need via charities Shoes...

2 May 2022

BusinessFeatured

Higg raises 50 million US dollars in Series B

Higg, the sustainability insights platform for the consumer goods industry, has raised 50 million US dollars in a Series B funding round to accelerate supply chain sustainability. The funding was co-led by technology growth investor Silversmith Capital Partners and Tom Steyer and Katie Hall’s Galvanize Climate Solutions, along with participation...

28 Apr 2022

Fashion

Sandro joins forces with Fairly Made

Fashion brand Sandro is teaming up with French start-up Fairly Made to offer its customers detailed and transparent information on the traceability of its designs as it looks to commit to more responsible and sustainable fashion. Fairly Made empowers fashion brands to integrate French and European regulations to improve their social and...

28 Apr 2022