Sustainable Fashion
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All Stories for Sustainable Fashion
New expo showcases past and future of Fashion Week
Fp Staff •The historic looks from the runways of Balenciaga, Versace, and Moschino, the innovative works of Dutch fashion designer Ronald van der Kemp and digital fashion house The Fabricant will feature at the exhibition starting 20 May
Style check: How sustainable is the sustainable business for designers in today's fast fashion?
Nivedita •While sustainable practices are catching up like never before in the fashion industry, fashion designers weigh in on what is its impact on the brands
When sustainable fashion becomes an act of revolution; here's how to keep disposable consumerism at bay
Swareena Gurung •The Fashion Revolution Week suggests four Rs to adopt and promote sustainable fashion: Renewal, Revival, Responsibility, and Revolution.
Dolce&Gabbana announces it'll drop use of animal fur in its collection starting 2022
•"Dolce&Gabbana is working toward a more sustainable future that can’t contemplate the use of animal fur,” the company said in a statement
Rebranding humble jute: From rice bags to ramp fashion how India plans to capitalise on jute's popularity
Fp Staff •India is trying to promote jute as a fabric for a sustainable future, with the government issuing a mandate that all grains should be packed in jute sacks.
Clothing as a hymn to the planet: 11.11/eleven eleven on their sustainable practices, fostering respect for artisans
Namrata Zakaria •The DNA of the label is in tracing the journey of the garment: the product, the services and the foundation of the supply chain, all the way back to the land and the people at the site of manufacturing.
Refashioning the sari, repurposing lives: How Stefano Funari brought together gender empowerment and success
Namrata Zakaria •A profitable enterprise that employs underprivileged women from Mumbai’s slums, to make contemporary fashion from recycled saris, has Gucci supporting it too.
With slow and 'seasonless' clothing in focus, how some pandemic-born labels are changing the face of Indian fashion
Shubhanjana Das •Certain pandemic-born brands display a nuanced knowledge of the shift in market demands during the pandemic and an irreverence towards seasonal fashion and conventional modes of production and marketing.
With COVID-19 transforming fashion, Milan designers swap extravagance for slow, sustainable clothing
•While the bustle of live shows with the parade of itinerant fashionistas decamping from New York to London, Milan and finally Paris was missed, designers also were stimulated by the slower pace of the pandemic-era fashion cycle.
Decoding sustainable fashion: Shift to slow design models, change in consumer mindset imperative, say experts
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe •For India, tradition and heritage play much into the global experience of sustainable fashion.