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Sustainability

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.

Sustainability

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.


Sustainability

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.

Sustainability

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.


Retail

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.

Retail

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.


Retail

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.

Retail

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.


Retail

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.

Retail

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.


Marketing

The Fashion Establishment Nervously Asks: Who's Next?

This week, everyone will be talking about the steady stream of high-level fashion resignations, a Pride month like no other and retail's shrinking store footprint. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.

Marketing

The Fashion Establishment Nervously Asks: Who's Next?

This week, everyone will be talking about the steady stream of high-level fashion resignations, a Pride month like no other and retail's shrinking store footprint. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.


Sustainability

Will Fashion Ever Be Good for the World? Its Future May Depend on It.

The Covid-19 pandemic has put financial pressure on businesses, threatening their sustainability agendas. But aligning profit and purpose, and fulfilling responsibilities to the planet and communities of people beyond shareholders may matter more than ever to long-term success.

Sustainability

Will Fashion Ever Be Good for the World? Its Future May Depend on It.

The Covid-19 pandemic has put financial pressure on businesses, threatening their sustainability agendas. But aligning profit and purpose, and fulfilling responsibilities to the planet and communities of people beyond shareholders may matter more than ever to long-term success.


Sustainability

Fashion's Sustainability Goals Threatened By the Crisis

In the midst of the pandemic, brands are continuing to make big, long-term commitments to environmental and social goals, but with money tight, progress is likely to be fraught.

Sustainability

Fashion's Sustainability Goals Threatened By the Crisis

In the midst of the pandemic, brands are continuing to make big, long-term commitments to environmental and social goals, but with money tight, progress is likely to be fraught.


Retail

Fashion Executives Braced for Pain, But Optimistic Long-Term, Says BoF Survey

Senior industry managers have a nearly unanimously bleak outlook on how the Covid-19 pandemic will affect business performance, but long-term most are optimistic their companies will rebound, according to a survey conducted by The Business of Fashion.

Retail

Fashion Executives Braced for Pain, But Optimistic Long-Term, Says BoF Survey

Senior industry managers have a nearly unanimously bleak outlook on how the Covid-19 pandemic will affect business performance, but long-term most are optimistic their companies will rebound, according to a survey conducted by The Business of Fashion.


Retail

H&M Group Reports Dramatic Sales Decline in China as It Closes More Stores in Europe

The fast fashion giant is grappling with a significant business slowdown in China and has temporarily shuttered stores in Italy, France and Spain, as governments act to contain the spread of Covid-19.

Retail

H&M Group Reports Dramatic Sales Decline in China as It Closes More Stores in Europe

The fast fashion giant is grappling with a significant business slowdown in China and has temporarily shuttered stores in Italy, France and Spain, as governments act to contain the spread of Covid-19.