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Explainer: How Fashion Brands Should Prepare for Mandatory Digital Product Passports

The deadline for every fashion item sold in the EU to have its own digital identity is inching closer. Brands need to get ready.

Technology

Explainer: How Fashion Brands Should Prepare for Mandatory Digital Product Passports

The deadline for every fashion item sold in the EU to have its own digital identity is inching closer. Brands need to get ready.


Sustainability

Explainer: What the EU’s Moves to Water Down Sustainability Rules Mean for Fashion

After months of political wrangling, Europe’s Parliament has reached a deal to significantly scale back landmark corporate sustainability rules, paving the way for much laxer environmental reporting and due diligence requirements for large fashion brands.

Sustainability

Explainer: What the EU’s Moves to Water Down Sustainability Rules Mean for Fashion

After months of political wrangling, Europe’s Parliament has reached a deal to significantly scale back landmark corporate sustainability rules, paving the way for much laxer environmental reporting and due diligence requirements for large fashion brands.


Sustainability

The Frayed Edge: A Playbook for a Luxury Scandal

Big luxury has deployed a tried and tested playbook to defuse the fallout from an ongoing sweatshop scandal, there’s been an unusual level of regulatory drama in Brussels and we’re giving up on the prospect of an Hermès handbag made from mushroom leather.

Sustainability

The Frayed Edge: A Playbook for a Luxury Scandal

Big luxury has deployed a tried and tested playbook to defuse the fallout from an ongoing sweatshop scandal, there’s been an unusual level of regulatory drama in Brussels and we’re giving up on the prospect of an Hermès handbag made from mushroom leather.


Sustainability

The Frayed Edge: Regulators Take a ‘Business First’ Approach to Sustainability

Europe is pushing ahead with moves to water down flagship sustainability rules in a bid to boost competitiveness, while Italian lawmakers are looking at ways to protect ‘Made in Italy’ from the fallout of a sweatshop scandal.

Sustainability

The Frayed Edge: Regulators Take a ‘Business First’ Approach to Sustainability

Europe is pushing ahead with moves to water down flagship sustainability rules in a bid to boost competitiveness, while Italian lawmakers are looking at ways to protect ‘Made in Italy’ from the fallout of a sweatshop scandal.


Sustainability

The Frayed Edge: Nike’s Sustainability Reset

The sportswear giant has toned down communications around its sustainability efforts, replacing its glossy annual impact report with hard-to-find data sheets. Meanwhile, Rolex is cosying up to Trump and the EU’s push to clean up fashion waste is getting real.

Sustainability

The Frayed Edge: Nike’s Sustainability Reset

The sportswear giant has toned down communications around its sustainability efforts, replacing its glossy annual impact report with hard-to-find data sheets. Meanwhile, Rolex is cosying up to Trump and the EU’s push to clean up fashion waste is getting real.


Luxury

In Geneva, Luxury Watch Leaders Brace for US Tariffs Impact

Chief executives said they planned to raise prices while cutting margins.

Luxury

In Geneva, Luxury Watch Leaders Brace for US Tariffs Impact

Chief executives said they planned to raise prices while cutting margins.


Global Markets

EU Suspends Retaliatory 25% Tariffs on US Goods After Trump U-Turn

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said, “If negotiations are not satisfactory, our countermeasures will kick in,” underscoring that the retaliatory tariffs are on hold for 90 days.

Global Markets

EU Suspends Retaliatory 25% Tariffs on US Goods After Trump U-Turn

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said, “If negotiations are not satisfactory, our countermeasures will kick in,” underscoring that the retaliatory tariffs are on hold for 90 days.


Sustainability

The EU’s Retreat on Sustainability Regulations, Explained

The European Union has unveiled plans to significantly water down landmark sustainability rules that would require large fashion brands to report more details about their environmental footprint and take on more responsibility for abuses in their supply chains.

Sustainability

The EU’s Retreat on Sustainability Regulations, Explained

The European Union has unveiled plans to significantly water down landmark sustainability rules that would require large fashion brands to report more details about their environmental footprint and take on more responsibility for abuses in their supply chains.


Sustainability

Misguided Regulation Is Putting the Sustainable Fashion Movement at Risk

A backlash against complex and costly new rules is threatening Europe’s pioneering efforts to make the industry operate more responsibly. Failure to address valid criticisms risks undermining the whole endeavour, argues Kenneth P. Pucker.

Sustainability

Misguided Regulation Is Putting the Sustainable Fashion Movement at Risk

A backlash against complex and costly new rules is threatening Europe’s pioneering efforts to make the industry operate more responsibly. Failure to address valid criticisms risks undermining the whole endeavour, argues Kenneth P. Pucker.


Sustainability

Shein Is on a Pre-IPO Charm Offensive

The controversial e-commerce giant is on a charm offensive as it seeks to manage regulation that takes aim at fast fashion and drum up support for a possible London listing.

Sustainability

Shein Is on a Pre-IPO Charm Offensive

The controversial e-commerce giant is on a charm offensive as it seeks to manage regulation that takes aim at fast fashion and drum up support for a possible London listing.