Opinion: Why Supporting Sustainability Is Key For The Luxury Industry

Opinion: Why Supporting Sustainability Is Key For The Luxury Industry LVMH’s latest move to partner with designer Stella McCartney signalled a wider move in the luxury industry to support sustainability and make it aspirational. Brands, both big and small, luxury and mass, will have to follow suit, explains Diana Verde Nieto. Sustainability often seems like…

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Marie-Claire Daveu (Kering): “Being sustainable is a necessity if you want to continue to do your business”

Marie-Claire Daveu (Kering): “Being sustainable is a necessity if you want to continue to do your business” Daveu is Kering’s chief sustainability officer and head of international institutional affairs since 2012. She started her career working at the public sector, serving as chief of staff to French politician Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. This is her second interview…

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Sustainable Luxury: Decoding the Next Decade of Change

Sustainable Luxury: Decoding the Next Decade of Change The latest report from Positive Luxury indicates that the current business model is pushing the planet’s resources to their limits, and the impact of that short-term gain is tough to ignore. For years, “buy-use-dispose” was the lifecycle of most items consumers bought. That has led to the current…

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How Sustainability Became a Luxury Value

How Sustainability Became a Luxury Value On Friday, 32 fashion companies, including pillars of the world’s luxury fashion market—Chanel, Ralph Lauren, and Prada among them—as well as fast fashion players like H&M Group and Zara, announced that they were signing the Fashion Pact, a non-legally binding agreement to combat greenhouse gasses and emphasize sustainability in the…

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Introducing circular fashion: the shopping concept that could save the planet

Introducing circular fashion: the shopping concept that could save the planet The industry’s buzziest new idea could finally be an authentic way of reconciling a love of fashion with sustainability Sustainability has never been important to shoppers, nor to the fashion industry. This generation cares about the planet; we might have enjoyed February’s freakishly warm…

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