Fashion is an industry that runs on change with new trends, styles, and whole new ranges offered up every season. In order to meet those demands, it must keep the supply chain working at full steam to stitch up and ship out new fashions at breakneck speed.
With its focus on the front end to deliver a continuously changing collection of fashion, it has, by necessity, been slower to change the many moving parts of the industry’s back end.
So, it has been moving at a measured pace to meet the growing demand for sustainable fashion and a more environmentally and socially-responsible industry.
As one of the world’s dirtiest industries, fashion has recognized its responsibility and formed the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) comprised of 250+ members to change the apparel, footwear, and textiles industry so that it “produces no unnecessary environmental harm and has a positive impact on the people and communities associated with its activities.”
But given the ambitious goals of creating a sustainable fashion industry and the scope of change required to meet them, the industry’s progress has been slow… more