Can fashion keep its cool … and help save the planet?
The catwalk world of glamour and luxury hides a business that thrives on wasteful consumerism. Now the climate crisis is forcing a rethink
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G7 and fashion houses join forces to make clothes more sustainable
Climate crisis pushes retailers to reduce their impact on the environment
32 global fashion and textile companies have signed a Fashion Pact for G7 meeting at Biarritz
Leading players in the fashion and textile sector are joining forces for the first time to launch an unprecedented environmental movement. 32 leading companies from the fashion and textile industry have given themselves a set of shared objectives in the form of a Fashion Pact. The coalition includes groups and brands in … Read more
COURBET : The ‘disruptive’ French Sustainable Jewellery brand that even refuses ‘fairmined’ gold and diamonds
By Philippe Mihailovich & Caroline Taylor In line with 21st Century youth who are now demanding vegan leathers be used by luxury brands, we are now witnessing the emergence of a ‘sustainable’ high-end jewellery house on the famous Place Vendôme*, for whom anything mined is considered harmful to the environment and thereby unacceptable. … Read more
Alessandro Michele lent his artistic direction to a special art book and new Gucci Prêt-À-Porter campaign
Gucci Prêt-À-Porter, the new campaign for Gucci Fall-Winter 2019 explores the reportage imagery of a scene established as an industry cliché: from the ritual of fittings to catwalk display and magazine shoots. According to Gucci, this new campaign art directed by Christopher Simmonds and shot by Glen Luchford “pays homage to the mythical … Read more
Gucci hires diversity chief after criticism over insensitive designs
Garments from Italian fashion house have faced objections on racial and religious grounds