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Sustainability champions Vin + Omi bring royal nettles to London Fashion Week
One of the most quirky eco-friendly contributions to this year’s London Fashion Week, Sting, an event launching the Spring/Summer 2020 collection by Vin + Omi, featured clothing made from nettles harvested at Prince Charles’s rural Highgrove estate.
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Is clothing rental taking over from cheap ‘disposable’ fashion?
Fashion-conscious women turning their backs on the wasteful throwaway culture engendered by cheap, fast fashion retailers may be turning to rental as a way of changing up their everyday looks. Market analyst Mintel found 57% of UK fashion shoppers trying to shop more sustainably. More than half have also either rented clothing or are considering […]
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Global recycling crisis sparks fresh thinking on packaging
Versatile and durable, plastic has revolutionised modern life. But 63% of products sold in the food and beverage, beauty, home care and pet food sectors are now packaged in plastic. More than 8bn tons of this near-indestructible material has been produced since 1960. Global efforts to recover and recycle it barely dent the problem. Before […]
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Respect for animals is shaping global markets, say researchers
Animal-awareness was listed among the top 10 global consumer trends for 2019 in a report by independent market researchers Euromonitor International.
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New technology can bring transparency to global food chains, but collaboration will be key
Global supply chains bring UK consumers a variety of food that would have dazzled our grandparents. Particularly in big cities, you can now buy pretty much whatever ingredient you need, whether or not it’s ever been produced in the British Isles, and regardless of the time of year.
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Has the ‘sweatshop’ returned to the UK fashion industry?
The apparel industry has dominated Leicester since the 19th century; its thriving city factories once claimed to ‘clothe the world’.
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