Sustainable Fashion Influencers: Hypocrites, or Catalysts of Change?
Fashion brands are increasingly working with sustainable influencers to promote responsible consumption—a concept some find hypocritical.
Source: sourcingjournal.com
Fashion brands are increasingly working with sustainable influencers to promote responsible consumption—a concept some find hypocritical.
Source: sourcingjournal.com
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With every passing season, the global fashion industry propagates a frenzied pace of change in trends, feeding on consumers’ insecurities, deliberately making them feel off-trend and out of fashion. The fashion cycle has now shifted from the traditional spring/summer and autumn/winter collections to over 50 new micro seasons. Global clothing production doubled between 2000-2015, while the number of times an item was worn before being disposed of declined by 36 percent. In India, customer spending on clothing rose by a whopping 181 percent between 2010-2018. The expansion of the middle-class population and growing purchasing power is likely to influence a shift from need-based purchasing to aspiration-based purchasing. This problem of overconsumption is further amplified by lucrative deals offered during shopping events such as the ‘Black Friday and Cyber Monday’ (BFCM) sales, leading to mindless consumerism.
For sustainable procurement to be a force in tackling climate change, today’s functions need to demonstrate leadership like never before and overcome three persistent and painful obstacles…
What impact did we have? Did we reach our targets? Did we make a difference? Answering these sustainability questions about a project or campaign requires collecting data to monitor and evaluate progress.
Adidas, Reformation, H&M and Stella McCartney saw the highest “media impact value” for their sustainability mentions, Lauchmetrics said.
Auto suppliers told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday they opposes setting a firm date to end the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and warned that a quick shift to all electric vehicles could cost thousands of jobs. California said in September it planned to end sales of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles by 2035.