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The Fashion Pact and Fashion for Good launch Circular Fibre Collective

A new cross-industry initiative has been launched by major players in the circular fashion world that have set out to accelerate the adoption and scaling of textile-to-textile (T2T) recycled and next generation fibres. The UK’s Fashion Pact and Dutch organisation Fashion for Good have come together to introduce the Circular Fibre Collective, an...

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Global Fashion Summit: Sustainability in the spotlight, but ‘less talk, more action’ needed

More than 1,000 representatives from fashion brands, retailers, NGOs, policymakers, and manufacturers returned to Copenhagen this week for the 2023 edition of the Global Fashion Summit. The event brought together some of the world’s biggest fashion conglomerates including PVH and VF Corp, luxury groups LVMH and Kering, sportswear giants Nike and...

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The Fashion Pact faces key departures as H&M assumes leading role

The Fashion Pact, an initiative launched four years ago with the aim of driving environmental change in the fashion industry, is now grappling with the departure of several influential members, coinciding with H&M's ascension to a prominent position within the coalition. Renowned luxury retailers Hermès and Selfridges have recently withdrawn...

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The Fashion Pact names Helena Helmersson as new co-chair

The Fashion Pact, a global initiative of fashion and textile companies committed to tackling climate change and restoring biodiversity, has named H&M Group’s Helena Helmersson its new co-chair. Helmersson, chief executive of H&M Group, succeeds The Fashion Pact’s co-founder, Kering’s chairman and chief executive officer François-Henri Pinault,...

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Salvatore Ferragamo - a year in sustainability

The Italian house Salvatore Ferragamo created a video to summarize what were the actions taken in 2019 towards sustainability. The brand is part of the Fashion Pact, which goal is to help reduce global warming, restore biodiversity and eliminate single-use plastics; and they have been committed to sustainability since 2014, publishing every year...

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Tendam joins Fashion Pact

Spanish fashion retailer Tendam, which owns brands the Cortefiel, Pedro del Hierro, Springfield, Women’secret, Fifty brands, and, as of November, Hoss Intropia, is the latest company to join the Fashion Pact, a coalition of fashion and textile businesses committing to tackle sustainability issues. Unveiled back in August by François-Henri...

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The Fashion Pact announces 24 new signatories

The Fashion Pact met for its first working meeting last week after 32 brands originally joined the coalition for a more sustainable fashion industry in August. Comprised of a diverse group of fashion and textile companies, the Fashion Pact is a pledge to work towards sustainable goals in climate, biodiversity and oceans. The coalition announced...

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Fashion Pact: 32 brands unite to protect climate, biodiversity and oceans

Just ahead of the G7 meeting in Biarritz, which is concluding today, François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of luxury fashion group Kering, unveiled the Fashion Pact, a coalition of 32 fashion houses to protect the world’s climate, biodiversity and oceans, on Friday, to be presented to world leaders of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany,...