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Kering's 97% Traceability and the Real Cost of Scale
Kering Just Reported Near-Total Supply-Chain Traceability After a Decade of Work — And the Real Lesson Is That Scale Created the Opacity It Is Now Spending a Fortune to Undo
Kering has published a ten-year Impact Report claiming a 34 percent absolute carbon reduction and 97 percent traceability on key raw materials. The headline figure that matters is not the... Read more...
Ukrainian Designers independent design
Four Ukrainian Designers Kept Building Independent Labels Through a War — And What Their Survival Reveals Is the Strongest Case for Craft Over Scale
What does it take to run an independent fashion label from inside a country at war? Ksenia Schnaider, Litkovska, Masha Popova and Tamar Keburia have not only survived it but... Read more...
OCED - An Energy Shock Is Coming for Fashion.
The OECD Just Warned an Energy Shock Will Raise Clothing Prices — But It Lands Hardest on the Exact Tier of Fashion You Should Already Be Leaving
The OECD’s June Economic Outlook warns that the energy shock from the Middle East conflict is driving inflation toward 4 percent and slowing global growth, with apparel directly exposed through... Read more...
African Independent Designers Galeries Lafayette
A Dozen Independent African Designers Just Got a Flagship Floor in Paris — And It’s the Honest Answer to Fashion’s Appropriation Problem
Galeries Lafayette is handing a flagship floor to a dozen independent African designers for its “Africa Now” pop-up — names like Christie Brown, Eric Raisina, Late For Work and Vanhu... Read more...
Prada’s $995 Sandal and the $10 Original It Copied
Prada’s $995 Sandal and the $10 Original It Copied — What the Hundred-to-One Price Gap Really Reveals About Luxury
Prada's Kolhapuri-inspired sandal sells for $995. The centuries-old Indian original it resembles costs about $10. The cultural-appropriation controversy — and Prada's artisan-training response — is the clearest natural experiment imaginable... Read more...
Under Armour Just Made Its First Fashion Collaboration in Thirty Years
Under Armour Just Made Its First Fashion Collaboration in Thirty Years — And It Reveals Exactly Where the Power Has Moved
Under Armour just made the first fashion-brand collaboration in its thirty-year history — and chose Marine Serre, the LVMH Prize-winning French designer whose entire brand is built on upcycling deadstock... Read more...
An independent designer's studio with garments on a rail, the working environment behind craft-led fashion
Fashion's Biggest Talent Prizes Just Quietly Stopped Funding Runway Shows — And Started Funding Businesses Instead
Within ten days, three of European fashion's most important talent programmes — Italy's CNMI Fashion Trust, Britain's BFC NewGen, France's Andam — all restructured around the same idea: stop paying... Read more...
Folded sustainable clothing illustrating the collapse of the sustainability premium in fashion
The Fashion Industry Just Quietly Admitted Its Sustainability Model Is Broken — What the Copenhagen Summit Actually Revealed
At the Copenhagen Fashion Summit this week, McKinsey, Kering, and the Global Fashion Agenda all admitted versions of the same thing. The decade-long bet that consumers would pay a premium... Read more...
Stack of basic apparel illustrating the Shein acquisition of Everlane and the end of the DTC ethical-fashion era
Shein Just Bought Everlane — And Quietly Ended the Era of Ethical DTC Fashion
On Saturday Everlane's board approved its sale to Shein for one hundred million dollars — down from a five hundred and fifty million dollar valuation just six years ago. Common... Read more...
Milan Fashion Week runway illustrating the end of fur promotion in Italian luxury fashion
Milan Just Walked Away From Fur — The Quiet End of an Era in Luxury Fashion
On May 15, the official trade body that runs Milan Fashion Week announced it will no longer promote fur. The decision marks the official end of fur as a credible... Read more...
Why Nothing Fits: The Vanity Sizing Lie
Why Nothing Fits: The Vanity Sizing Lie No Retailer Will Tell You
A women's size 14 in 1937 was equivalent to a size 8 in 1967 and is now labelled a size 0. The body did not change; the industry's labels did.... Read more...
Organised closet with neatly hung clothing illustrating the wardrobe gap
The Wardrobe Gap: Why You Have Nothing to Wear in a Closet Full of Clothes
The average person experiences the feeling of having nothing to wear roughly two thousand eight hundred times in a lifetime, while owning approximately five hundred and fifty dollars worth of... Read more...
Fashion industry executives discuss sustainability and business resilience
Sustainability Just Became a Survival Strategy: What the 2026 Global Fashion Summit Quietly Changed
Last week in Copenhagen, the fashion industry quietly buried the language of aspirational sustainability and replaced it with something colder, sharper, and far more consequential: survival economics. Here's what actually... Read more...