Fashion’s sustainability reckoning
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Clothing businesses are bracing for new rules that could upend their business model.
By Leonie Cater
COPENHAGEN – On the surface, it was everything you would expect from a high-end fashion industry knees-up.
Green juice for breakfast, impeccably dressed conference-goers, Moët & Chandon flowing before dinner.
But the topic at the heart of this year’s Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen was less glamorous: How can a sector that has thrived on novelty and extravagance survive global efforts to slash carbon emissions and eliminate waste?
From bringing more transparency to supply chains to developing more sustainable manufacturing methods, panels revolved around how the fashion industry can fall in line with upcoming EU and U.S. regulations – sharp-ish.
That’s with good reason. The bloc’s textiles industry faces an onslaught of regulation that could force a reckoning over its environmental and human rights abuses.
The EU’s textile and clothing sector had a turnover of €147 billion – and ...
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