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.
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’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.
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.
The Waste Opportunity: How Fashion Could Turn Trash to Treasure
The fashion industry feeds a culture of wasteful overconsumption. BoF assesses companies’ efforts to address the industry’s waste problem in the final instalment in a series of articles examining the findings of The BoF Sustainability Index.
The Waste Opportunity: How Fashion Could Turn Trash to Treasure
The fashion industry feeds a culture of wasteful overconsumption. BoF assesses companies’ efforts to address the industry’s waste problem in the final instalment in a series of articles examining the findings of The BoF Sustainability Index.
Measuring Fashion’s Sustainability Gap — Download the Report Now
Brands are talking about sustainability more than ever before, but does their rhetoric stand up to scrutiny? BoF’s new report, The BoF Sustainability Index, benchmarks 15 of the industry’s biggest companies against ambitious environmental and social goals and finds fashion is falling short.
Measuring Fashion’s Sustainability Gap — Download the Report Now
Brands are talking about sustainability more than ever before, but does their rhetoric stand up to scrutiny? BoF’s new report, The BoF Sustainability Index, benchmarks 15 of the industry’s biggest companies against ambitious environmental and social goals and finds fashion is falling short.
FAQs: The BoF Sustainability Index
The BoF Sustainability Index aims to create a transparent and trusted benchmark to track clearly defined, measurable progress towards achieving sustainability goals in the fashion industry. Answers to questions about the underlying methodology and approach may be found below.
FAQs: The BoF Sustainability Index
The BoF Sustainability Index aims to create a transparent and trusted benchmark to track clearly defined, measurable progress towards achieving sustainability goals in the fashion industry. Answers to questions about the underlying methodology and approach may be found below.
Brands Say They Want to Keep Workers Safe. Not All Are Willing to Pay for It.
Walmart and other large fashion retailers tout their progress on worker safety to consumers. But suppliers say they’re often on their own when it comes to improving factory conditions.
Brands Say They Want to Keep Workers Safe. Not All Are Willing to Pay for It.
Walmart and other large fashion retailers tout their progress on worker safety to consumers. But suppliers say they’re often on their own when it comes to improving factory conditions.
Exclusive: Hermès Bets on Mushroom-Based ‘Leather’
The leather-goods powerhouse is testing alternative materials in a break with tradition, reimagining its ‘Victoria’ travel bag in a lab-grown substitute.
Exclusive: Hermès Bets on Mushroom-Based ‘Leather’
The leather-goods powerhouse is testing alternative materials in a break with tradition, reimagining its ‘Victoria’ travel bag in a lab-grown substitute.
The Definitive Guide: How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand
What does it take to build a fashion brand that is good for the planet, the people in it and still makes business sense? BoF’s five-part online series lays out the framework for building a responsible fashion business.
The Definitive Guide: How to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand
What does it take to build a fashion brand that is good for the planet, the people in it and still makes business sense? BoF’s five-part online series lays out the framework for building a responsible fashion business.
How Government Regulation Could Hurt Boohoo’s Ambitions
A customs investigation into forced labour allegations has brought the future of Boohoo’s US business into question, in what could become a rude awakening for fashion brands everywhere.
How Government Regulation Could Hurt Boohoo’s Ambitions
A customs investigation into forced labour allegations has brought the future of Boohoo’s US business into question, in what could become a rude awakening for fashion brands everywhere.
Fashion Goes Green to Raise Capital
The likes of Chanel, Adidas and H&M are landing funds based on potential environmental, social and governance impact, relying on sustainability targets to secure both public and investor goodwill.
Fashion Goes Green to Raise Capital
The likes of Chanel, Adidas and H&M are landing funds based on potential environmental, social and governance impact, relying on sustainability targets to secure both public and investor goodwill.
The Start-Ups That Want to Solve Fashion’s Packaging Problem
As the pandemic-driven surge in fashion e-commerce sends more and more cardboard boxes and plastic bags to landfills, a growing number of companies have radical ideas about how to reduce packaging waste.
The Start-Ups That Want to Solve Fashion’s Packaging Problem
As the pandemic-driven surge in fashion e-commerce sends more and more cardboard boxes and plastic bags to landfills, a growing number of companies have radical ideas about how to reduce packaging waste.
In Fashion’s Global Supply Chain, a Ruthless Race to the Bottom
A year into the coronavirus crisis, the garment industry and its millions of workers are suffering as they slash prices to stay competitive.
In Fashion’s Global Supply Chain, a Ruthless Race to the Bottom
A year into the coronavirus crisis, the garment industry and its millions of workers are suffering as they slash prices to stay competitive.
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.