What China’s Sustainability Efforts Might Mean For Global Fashion
Decoding the consumption and production trends of China’s fashion market for 2024.
In Conversation with Maximilien Abadie of Lectra
Lectra's Chief Strategy and Product Officer on the importance of sustainability in fashion, emphasizing traceability, technology integration, and Industry 4.0 practices to balance environmental responsibility with economic growth while meeting regulatory demands and consumer expectations.
Empowering Fashion’s Supply Chain Workers Makes the Industry More Sustainable – So Why isn’t it Standard Practice?
Understanding the thread from ethical action to sustainable production, and why supporting supply chain workers will be essential to fashion’s future.
New Guidelines For AI In The Workplace, And Fashion Plans To Better Protect Biodiversity
Rules, laws, and guidelines for AI in business are expanding, but keeping them effective and relevant in an industry as fast-changing as fashion will be a challenge. Meanwhile, luxury group Kering publicly adopts science-based targets for nature.
Podcast: Talking Sustainability, Innovation, and Cooperation with Munich Fabric Start
Two special guests join The Interline podcast from Munich Fabric Start – one of the leading textile trade shows in Europe - to discuss some of the biggest challenges in fashion today.
In Conversation with Chad Malley of Hyland
Hyland’s Global Director of Digital Asset Management Practice on sustainability in fashion requiring brands to prioritise initiatives based on business health, operational maturity, and market demands while balancing compliance, consumer preferences, and cost reduction strategies.
What Will It Take For Material Innovation To Become Mainstream?
After a difficult year for the alternative materials sector, a founder underlines why fashion needs novel materials, and what mindset the industry will have to adopt for those materials and methods to scale.
In Conversation with Dr Sam Lind of Oritain
Oritain’s Science Solution Architect on the importance of scientific traceability in fashion sustainability.
Who Risks Falling Through The Gaps In A Circular Fashion System?
With the linear fashion model so deeply entrenched, change is proving difficult for brands. But what about the labour market? Is it possible to promote circularity without leaving skilled people behind?
Unpacking The Value Of Fashion Data
What Lectra's big bet on Valia Fashion could mean for an industry where digital transformation needs a new data foundation and a different way of thinking.
Fashion and Textiles Legislation: Laying Down the Key Laws
An essential guide to to important fashion and textiles sustainability regulations that all fashion’s stakeholders should have on their radar.
Understanding Overproduction
The roots of fashion’s core sustainability challenge, and how we might tackle them through policy, technology, and consumer engagement.
The Next Steps Towards Supply Chain Traceability and Transparency
The urgent need for adopting traceability technology, and how it can help brands achieve a more transparent supply chain.
Italy’s Manufacturing Sector Gains Government Support, Shein Under Scrutiny Again, And Concerns Over The Tech-Fashion Connection
The Italian government gives Tuscany’s manufacturing sector support as it grapples with economic pressures, while their antitrust authority launches a probe into alleged greenwashing from Shein. And the relationship between tech and fashion companies continues to grow closer.