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The COVID-19 crisis is accelerating the shift of consumers toward more green and local forms of fashion, writes Mariam Harutyunyan. As high streets haemorrhage, fashion will need to fundamentally remodel itself, she argues.
January 11, 2021 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees a...
20 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in December 2020 By Simone Preuss 29 Dec 2020 In December too, the fashion industry sought to advance its efforts towards more sustainability, recycling and a generally more circular economy. Particularly encouraging: collaborations between brands and tech hubs such as H&M with HKRITA, Bestseller and Cyclo, or Fashion for Good and Biofabricate to accelerate innovations. The last month of the year was also impressive in terms of more sustainable products such as jeans and shoes. FashionUnited found 20 sustainable initiatives presented by the fa...
$100 Million for a More Sustainable Fashion Industry STOCKHOLM, Sweden, December 21, 2020 (ENS) – Two fashion organizations, one on each side of the globe – the nonprofit H&M Foundation in Stockholm and the government of Hong Kong’s Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel, HKRITA, are investing in a more sustainable fashion future by extending their presence in the Planet First program. H&M ribbed turtleneck polyester and wool sweater and coat. The polyester used in the sweater is 64 percent recycled. 2020 (Photo courtesy H&M Group) To help battle climate change, the Planet First ...
H&M Foundation and Social Alpha commit $2M for innovation in waste management H&M Foundation and Social Alpha have launched ‘Techtonic Innovations in Waste Management’ challenge which selects locally designed and disruptive solutions in the waste management industry. 0 claps Sweden-based H&M Foundation and Social Alpha have launched ‘Techtonic – Innovations in Waste Management’, a nationwide challenge to find disruptive innovations in waste management and improve the livelihoods of waste pickers. Through this challenge, H&M Foundation and Social Alpha aim to create an enabling e...