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H&M and Lululemon Back $250 Million Fund to Tackle Fashion’s Climate Impact
The brands are among the lead donors to a new fund, which is designed to de-risk and scale high-impact projects so they can attract up to $2 billion in more conventional financing.
Are Mass Market Fashion Companies Really the Worst on Sustainability?
Levi Strauss and H&M Group rank among the top five companies in The BoF Sustainability Index 2022, but the high street segment also contains the annual assessment’s lowest-scoring company with no points at all.
How Sustainability Became a Path to Fashion’s C-Suite
As big brands get serious about transforming their businesses for the future, executives with experience driving climate and social impact strategies are in hot demand.
How Fashion Can Deliver on COP26 Ambitions
Amid mounting evidence of fashion’s dramatically negative climate impact, countries, communities and companies are mobilising around protecting the planet. However, a new era of climate action will be required if fashion is to meet ambitious targets to reverse the damage being done.
Why COS Is Showing at London Fashion Week
The H&M Group-owned brand is looking to regain relevance and reestablish itself as an “accessible luxury” powerhouse.
Fashion’s New Materials Frontier
The fashion industry relies on an extractive business model. BoF assesses companies’ efforts to establish raw material supply chains with a positive impact on people and planet in the latest in a series of articles examining the findings of The BoF Sustainability Index.
Fashion Is Still Failing on Workers’ Rights
The fashion industry runs on systemic inequality and social injustice. BoF assesses companies’ efforts to protect workers in their supply chain in the latest in a series of articles examining the findings of The BoF Sustainability Index.
H&M’s Helena Helmersson on Making Retail More Resilient
H&M Group sank to a loss in the second quarter of 2020 as the pandemic caused sales to plummet 50 percent year-on-year, but it has since recovered faster than expected. The fast fashion giant’s chief executive is focusing on more sustainable business models to drive growth in the coming years.
Will This Time Be Different for Neiman Marcus and J.C. Penney?
This week, everyone will be talking about fashion weeks in New York and London, the post-bankruptcy futures of Neiman Marcus and J.C. Penney, and sales updates from the owners of Zara and H&M. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
COS: From ‘High Street Céline’ to Stagnation
H&M’s upmarket sister brand was once a proof point for the Swedish group’s ambitions to diversify away from its core fast-fashion business. But COS executives have struggled to keep pace with a shifting market while managing a troubled internal culture.