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Fashion’s Climate Déjà Vu

At New York Climate Week, fashion again pledged to turn its talk into action, with the launch of a new coalition bringing together dozens of brands, manufacturers, retailers and innovators. Real reductions of the industry’s impact, meanwhile, remain elusive.

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Has Fashion Fixed Its Italian Supply Chain Problems?

Luxury’s biggest brands have tightened supplier oversight since a sweatshops scandal threatened to taint their reputations, but critics say compliance efforts have stalled and little has been done to tackle the systemic issues that enable labour exploitation.

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Fashion Can’t Treat Climate Change as Just a Sustainability Problem

Fashion’s biggest sustainability challenges don’t exist in isolation. Increasingly, neither do the solutions.

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How to Fight Extreme Heat in Fashion’s Supply Chain

Record-breaking temperatures are threatening worker health and disrupting production, but there are simple, cost-effective steps the industry can take to adapt.

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Why Traceability Is Becoming a Business Requirement for Fashion Brands

With the US, EU and Canada introducing measures on forced labour in supply chains, traceability is no longer just a sustainability initiative but a necessity for market access.

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Has Fashion’s Exploitative Business Model Gotten Worse?

A new report finds suppliers and workers are absorbing the industry’s relentless push for lower prices more than ever before, while Shein’s acquisition of Everlane underscores how fashion’ current growth model still remains deeply at odds with sustainability.

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The Great Sustainability Rebrand

At this year’s Global Fashion Summit, the industry reframed sustainability around its financial value and presented it as a business survival strategy.

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Explainer: Fashion’s New Tariff Threat

A US trade probe into forced labour could trigger new tariffs and import bans, forcing fashion brands to implement more robust supply-chain transparency.

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The Impact of War on Fashion’s Supply Chain

Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.

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Shein, Nike and Fashion’s Widening Sustainability Gap

Copenhagen Fashion Week’s 20th edition offered promise in pushing fashion’s sustainability agenda from within, defying the wider industry's pullback from the cause. But with fashion’s decarbonisation trajectory offtrack, Shein’s questionable climate targets, paired with labour abuse in Nike and Prada’s supply chains, there’s still a long way to go.

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Shein Tried to Turn Brazil Into a Production Hub. Local Factories Walked Away

Progress stalled after Shein demanded that local suppliers lower prices and deliver orders faster than they could manage, Reuters reported.

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Urban Outfitters Criticised for Use of Gig Economy App in UK

Urban Outfitters and others have come under fire for advertising jobs on Temper, an gig economy app that’s been criticised for not offering basic employment rights.

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