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Social Goods | H&M's Climate Positive Plan, the Path to Model Diversity

This week, H&M announces new sustainability goals and a cynical take on the push for more diverse models.
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  • Tamison O'Connor

H&M Boss Karl-Johan Persson: We Don't Set Out to Destroy Local Fashion Industries (The Sydney Morning Herald)
"The retailer plans to reduce its energy usage and reach 100 percent sustainable energy in its operations by 2018."

How Fashion Became Part of the Resistance (Vogue)
"Many fashion designers are channelling the post-election mood into collections that serve as a rallying cry — or, perhaps, a marching chant."

Are We Really on the Path to Model Diversity? (i-D)
"Is our obsession with age about looking backwards? Or more cynically, about gaining coverage?"

'Elsewhere' Makes a Bid for Chinese Fashion Freedom (The Daily Beast)
"Elsewhere is expanding with its first-ever print publication which they are billing as one of the first and only fashion magazines to be published independently of a state-owned publishing house."

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