Save Your Wardrobe Relaunches Website to Further Its Circular Mission, Enters US Market
Save Your Wardrobe has relaunched its website to further strengthen its mission to extend the life cycle of clothing.
Shifting The Burden Of Sustainability: This Week In Fashion Technology
Consumer appetite for sustainable fashion is growing, but it’s not growing quickly enough. Brands and retailers, already wrestling to unpick their supply chains, could now be asked to pick up the yoke of pre-consumer interventions at both the practical and behavioural levels.
Defining The ‘How’ And The ‘What’ Of SROI – Part 1
To begin to manage, and then mitigate, its impact on people and planet, fashion must first put in the work to understand and quantify the resources used in product creation.
Fashion’s Outsize Contribution To Climate Change, And The New Retail Experience: This Week In Fashion Technology
With a newly-released report underlining the scale, speed, and severity of climate change, fashion will yet again be called on to account for its significant environmental footprint. And as the industry begins to reckon with the idea of making less product, technology could become fundamental to delivering a new retail experience.
Podcast: Sneakers, Sustainability & The Secondary Market
The Interline talks to the CEO of The Edit LDN about why technology is underpinning the secondary market for high end streetwear and sneakers - and why circular resale platforms could be a proving ground for fashion's wider digital transformation.
Preparing For Transparency With A Flexible Value Chain, Backed By Data
Across the entire, multi-tier, fashion supply chain, brands and their partners are now required to substantiate sustainability initiatives with evidence. The first building block for that disclosure will be rearchitecting relationships to run on data rather than trust and intuition.
Standards, Sizing, and Sustainability: This Week In Fashion Technology
The status quo for the fashion industry continues to shape-shift: environmental regulations are on the horizon for the EU, secondary markets are attracting heightened attention, new initiatives and data are benchmarking the scale of recycling and repair, and fresh sizing and cultural standards for brands are being imposed.
Tech Talent, AR, and Resale: This Week In Fashion Technology
As talent flows out of the big tech industry, the lure of addressing some of fashion’s long-standing problems could spark the next generation of solutions. Augmented reality becomes the latest big-picture technology to get anchored in practicality. The secondary market continues to grow. And The Interline checks in after a busy quarter of industry events.
Introducing, Measuring, And Managing SROI
As the global mandate for verifiable sustainability grows, and enhanced scrutiny breaks through environmental and ethical commitments that aren't backed by data, fashion needs to recognise the importance of sustainability as a return on investment.
The Personal is Paramount: This Week In Fashion Technology
The fashion industry appears to have a renewed focus on the bespoke: from e-commerce websites, to ownership of images, to hyper-personalisation fashion tech companies. What is it that makes the personal so powerful?
When Technology Advances The Tangible: This Week In Fashion Technology
From cross-channel experiences to the sudden integration of AI into web and product search, technology is being woven into many areas of fashion all at once - with digital either quietly or overtly driving changes on both the outskirts of the industry, or right at its heart.
The Environmental Case for Digital Fashion
Overproduction of physical goods is one of the key contributors to fashion's slow progress towards sustainability goals. Can shifting just a small share of our purchasing power to digital-only products help stem the tide of waste? The team behind DRESSX share their first-hand experience.
Sharing A Vision For Smart, Sustainable Fashion
As technology becomes a bigger fixture at institutional industry events, fashion is finding new sources of support in adjusting to the demands of digital transformation.
How PLM Can Calculate GHG (Greenhouse Gas) Emissions For Materials And Products
For fashion to reduce its carbon footprint, it must first find the right tools and processes to quantify emissions across its global, multi-tier supply chains. Sitting at the centre of the product lifecycle, PLM and integrated platforms could hold the key to measurement and management.
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