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Sustainability

Exclusive: PETA Investigation Challenges ‘Responsible Mohair’ Certification

The animal-rights group claims certification is failing to prevent cruelty at farms producing mohair and implicated a supplier to brands such as Paul Smith in a new report.

Sustainability

Exclusive: PETA Investigation Challenges ‘Responsible Mohair’ Certification

The animal-rights group claims certification is failing to prevent cruelty at farms producing mohair and implicated a supplier to brands such as Paul Smith in a new report.


Sustainability

Fashion Needs a New Sustainability Playbook

Efforts to establish a cleaner, kinder fashion sector are struggling, but it’s not clear what the answers are.

Sustainability

Fashion Needs a New Sustainability Playbook

Efforts to establish a cleaner, kinder fashion sector are struggling, but it’s not clear what the answers are.


Sustainability

Fashion’s Plastic Addiction in Four Charts

Cheap and versatile polyester has underpinned both the fashion industry’s growth and its worsening environmental footprint. Efforts to switch to recycled fibre are stalled, new data show.

Sustainability

Fashion’s Plastic Addiction in Four Charts

Cheap and versatile polyester has underpinned both the fashion industry’s growth and its worsening environmental footprint. Efforts to switch to recycled fibre are stalled, new data show.


Sustainability

Fashion’s Virgin Plastic Problem

The industry needs to ditch its reliance on fossil-fuel-based materials like polyester in order to meet climate targets, according to a new report from Textile Exchange.

Sustainability

Fashion’s Virgin Plastic Problem

The industry needs to ditch its reliance on fossil-fuel-based materials like polyester in order to meet climate targets, according to a new report from Textile Exchange.


Sustainability

Fashion Faces Massive Shortage of More Sustainable Raw Materials

Without greater commitment and investment from brands, the industry faces a 133 million tonne shortfall in supply of lower-impact materials in 2030, according to a new report.

Sustainability

Fashion Faces Massive Shortage of More Sustainable Raw Materials

Without greater commitment and investment from brands, the industry faces a 133 million tonne shortfall in supply of lower-impact materials in 2030, according to a new report.


Sustainability

Fashion’s Animal Welfare Taboo

While most brands have banned fur, animal welfare is rarely discussed when it comes to more mainstream and lucrative fabrics like leather.

Sustainability

Fashion’s Animal Welfare Taboo

While most brands have banned fur, animal welfare is rarely discussed when it comes to more mainstream and lucrative fabrics like leather.


Sustainability

Can Fashion Be ‘Nature-Positive’?

As COP15 puts biodiversity in the spotlight, fashion companies from H&M to Kering are re-upping their commitments to protecting and restoring nature. But tackling the issue in earnest will require industry-wide reform.

Sustainability

Can Fashion Be ‘Nature-Positive’?

As COP15 puts biodiversity in the spotlight, fashion companies from H&M to Kering are re-upping their commitments to protecting and restoring nature. But tackling the issue in earnest will require industry-wide reform.


Sustainability

Fashion’s Plastic Addiction Is Harder to Shake Than it Seems

Big brands from Adidas to Patagonia are on track to eliminate virgin polyester from their products. But the pivot to materials mostly made from recycled plastic bottles is an imperfect solution.

Sustainability

Fashion’s Plastic Addiction Is Harder to Shake Than it Seems

Big brands from Adidas to Patagonia are on track to eliminate virgin polyester from their products. But the pivot to materials mostly made from recycled plastic bottles is an imperfect solution.


Sustainability

Fashion’s Sustainable Materials Strategy Needs a Glow-Up

Big brands are buying more recycled polyester, better cotton and responsible leather than ever. But progress is precarious and more radical action is needed to really transform the industry’s supply chains, a new report from Textile Exchange finds.

Sustainability

Fashion’s Sustainable Materials Strategy Needs a Glow-Up

Big brands are buying more recycled polyester, better cotton and responsible leather than ever. But progress is precarious and more radical action is needed to really transform the industry’s supply chains, a new report from Textile Exchange finds.


Sustainability

What COP26 Means for Fashion

Achieving the ambitions laid out at the UN climate summit that ended this week will require a wholesale transformation of the way the fashion industry operates. Are business leaders ready?

Sustainability

What COP26 Means for Fashion

Achieving the ambitions laid out at the UN climate summit that ended this week will require a wholesale transformation of the way the fashion industry operates. Are business leaders ready?