Nylon Recycling Startup Syntetica Raises $30 Million Series A
Lululemon and apparel manufacturer MAS Holdings are among the investors backing the French startup as it scales a proprietary process for recycling nylon from mixed-textile waste.
Sustainability
How fashion can do better for people and the planet.
Why a Landmark Agreement to Protect Garment Workers Risks Falling Apart
After the Rana Plaza disaster, hundreds of brands signed the Bangladesh Accord, a highly effective binding commitment on safety many labour groups had hoped could serve as a template elsewhere. With the Accord due to expire next week, its legacy hangs in the balance.
Why a Landmark Agreement to Protect Garment Workers Risks Falling Apart
After the Rana Plaza disaster, hundreds of brands signed the Bangladesh Accord, a highly effective binding commitment on safety many labour groups had hoped could serve as a template elsewhere. With the Accord due to expire next week, its legacy hangs in the balance.
Can Designers Bring Progressive Values to Big Brands?
Designers like Brendon Babenzien, J.Crew’s new men’s creative director, bring deeply rooted values as well as design skills to their work. But embedding these values into larger organisations can be challenging.
Can Designers Bring Progressive Values to Big Brands?
Designers like Brendon Babenzien, J.Crew’s new men’s creative director, bring deeply rooted values as well as design skills to their work. But embedding these values into larger organisations can be challenging.
How Brands Can Be Effective Advocates
Championing values has become one of fashion’s favourite marketing tools. But as brands get more political, they also have an opportunity to drive real impact.
How Brands Can Be Effective Advocates
Championing values has become one of fashion’s favourite marketing tools. But as brands get more political, they also have an opportunity to drive real impact.
Op-Ed | Who Pays for Sustainability?
To fund a more sustainable future, the fashion system must become more productive, embracing a supply chain strategy rooted in shared risk, not lowest cost, argues John S. Thorbeck.
Op-Ed | Who Pays for Sustainability?
To fund a more sustainable future, the fashion system must become more productive, embracing a supply chain strategy rooted in shared risk, not lowest cost, argues John S. Thorbeck.
In Search of Transparency: Fashion’s Data Problem
Fashion is a notoriously opaque industry. That’s a big problem when the industry is focusing on reducing its negative environmental and social impact.
In Search of Transparency: Fashion’s Data Problem
Fashion is a notoriously opaque industry. That’s a big problem when the industry is focusing on reducing its negative environmental and social impact.
Revenge Shopping vs Sustainability: Fashion Can’t Have Both
This week, the dissonance between Earth Day marketing and a Roaring 2020s-style resurgence in consumption made clear that fashion’s sustainability pledges and its growth ambitions are on a collision course.
Revenge Shopping vs Sustainability: Fashion Can’t Have Both
This week, the dissonance between Earth Day marketing and a Roaring 2020s-style resurgence in consumption made clear that fashion’s sustainability pledges and its growth ambitions are on a collision course.
Scaling Up or Selling Out: How Can Sustainable Labels Credibly Collaborate with Big Brands?
H&M’s latest collaboration with Liya Kebede’s Lemlem drops on Earth Day, but it won’t use the artisan-focused label’s supply chain, underscoring the complexities of these kinds of partnerships.
Scaling Up or Selling Out: How Can Sustainable Labels Credibly Collaborate with Big Brands?
H&M’s latest collaboration with Liya Kebede’s Lemlem drops on Earth Day, but it won’t use the artisan-focused label’s supply chain, underscoring the complexities of these kinds of partnerships.
Devising a New Social Contract for Fashion’s Garment Workers
Fashion has routinely failed the millions of people who make its clothes. What should the industry do to create systemic change?
Devising a New Social Contract for Fashion’s Garment Workers
Fashion has routinely failed the millions of people who make its clothes. What should the industry do to create systemic change?
Stella McCartney on the Business of Sustainable Design
The pioneering designer spoke to BoF’s Imran Amed about continuing to push the envelope for sustainable luxury at The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap.
Stella McCartney on the Business of Sustainable Design
The pioneering designer spoke to BoF’s Imran Amed about continuing to push the envelope for sustainable luxury at The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap.
The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap
Fashion’s negative environmental and social impact is an increasingly critical risk for the industry. Keynote speaker Stella McCartney was joined by a group of global experts to discuss the solutions.
The BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap
Fashion’s negative environmental and social impact is an increasingly critical risk for the industry. Keynote speaker Stella McCartney was joined by a group of global experts to discuss the solutions.
BoF LIVE: Solving Fashion’s Packaging Problem
BoF’s Lauren Sherman and Brian Baskin unpack fashion’s wasteful schemes for delivering products to consumers, and discuss how the industry can do better with a panel of experts.
BoF LIVE: Solving Fashion’s Packaging Problem
BoF’s Lauren Sherman and Brian Baskin unpack fashion’s wasteful schemes for delivering products to consumers, and discuss how the industry can do better with a panel of experts.
The Tech Tools That Want to Solve Fashion’s Supply Chain Problems
The industry’s opaque and sprawling supply chain does tremendous human and environmental damage. Companies offering new tools say they have solutions.
The Tech Tools That Want to Solve Fashion’s Supply Chain Problems
The industry’s opaque and sprawling supply chain does tremendous human and environmental damage. Companies offering new tools say they have solutions.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
EU Removes Leather From Deforestation Law
The changes, which will go into effect in December 2027, are a win for the leather industry.
UK Bans ‘Recycled’ Clothing Ads From Adidas, Uniqlo and Calvin Klein
Major retailers’ ads promoting “recycled” clothing and shoes have been banned by the UK watchdog after advertisers were unable to prove their green claims.
Burberry Delays Net Zero Emissions Target by 10 Years to 2050
The British group positioned itself as an industry leader five years ago when it announced a goal of net zero by 2040 — ahead of other luxury brands and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Milan Fashion Week Will Ask Brands Not to Show Fur
The National Chamber of Italian Fashion will no longer promote fur at events or on social media.
Zara Workers Urge Fashion Chain to Stop Plan Cutting Local Wages
Labour representatives worry the shift to standardised conditions would erase years of locally negotiated terms in A Coruña.
Levi’s Sued for Allegedly Misleading Consumers on Ethical Labour Practices
The Clean Clothes Campaign and four Dutch consumers have accused the denim brand of failing to meet the responsible production standards it promotes in its marketing.
Etsy Bans Fur From Its Listings
Effective Aug. 11, the e-commerce marketplace will pull any remaining animal fur products from its website.