Sustainability

Are Tariffs Reshaping Fashion? The Rise of Quiet Luxury Amid Trade Uncertainty

For decades, fashion has thrived on a model of affordable mass production, high-volume sales, and rapid global supply chains. Fast fashion giants have successfully leveraged...

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Art

The New Power Brokers: How Agents Are Transforming the Art Industry

The contemporary art market has traditionally been an industry where even the most prominent artists operated without dedicated agents negotiating their deals. However, this landscape...

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Technology

Generative AI in Fashion: Disruptive Innovation or Overhyped Trend?

Generative artificial intelligence has been pitched as the dawn of a more streamlined, cost and labor-efficient, and data-driven future for fashion. Through algorithms that use...

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Sustainability

EU Proposes Sweeping Reforms to Sustainability Regulations

The European Union has announced significant rollbacks to key sustainability regulations, cutting environmental reporting requirements for thousands of businesses and largely exempting supply chains from...

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Sustainability

Is Sustainability Still a Selling Point in Fashion?

The fashion industry is at a crossroads. For years, sustainability was marketed as the future of fashion, with brands betting on environmentally conscious consumers to...

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Sustainability

A Year of Reckoning for the Fashion and Luxury Goods Supply Chain

As luxury brands continued to raise their prices, scrutiny over the quality and value of goods intensified. Critics and consumers alike began questioning the transparency...

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Sustainability

Slow Fashion: challenges ahead

In February, ARQ, the Oregon-based brand known for its ethically made high-waisted underwear and sculpting tank tops, quietly ceased operations. This move shocked many loyal...

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Sustainability

Reducing Volumes in the Fashion Industry: Challenges and Opportunities

Introduction How can brands make money without making new clothes? This pressing question lies at the heart of a new initiative by the Ellen MacArthur...

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Sustainability

Rethinking Certification in the Fashion Industry

The fashion industry finds itself at a crossroads, confronted by the limitations of its longstanding mechanisms for promoting sustainability. Recent scrutiny of the Better Cotton...

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