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30 June 2022

Meta's virtual fashion experiment means that social media, insecure in their "Kingdom of the Immaterial" seek an anchor in the “material”

The vice president of fashion and shopping partnerships at Meta and BoF technology correspondent Marc Bain join Lauren Sherman to discuss the company's new market experiment - which launched a virtual clothing store with Thom Browne, Balenciaga and Prada - and the future of fashion on the platform. Our comment builds on this conversation.

26 June 2022

A technology that traces the product chain

Inaugurated in Florence the method that combines sustainability and transparency through an innovative platform. A technology that guarantees transparency on the supply chain and products. By scanning a Qr code on the product, you access an interactive interface that allows you to navigate the supply chain in an intuitive way, but also to discover the sustainability elements of the specific collection

23 June 2022

How Technology Is Tearing Down Fashion’s Value Chain Siloes

Few off-the-shelf solutions are designed to integrate the fashion value chain from end to end, meaning companies need to build custom solutions. Integrated, digitally enabled value chain solutions can help brands see up to a 50% increase in speed to market, up to 8% rise in full-price sell through and up to a 20% decline in manufacturing costs. This article appeared in The State of Fashion: Technology, an in-depth report co-published by BoF and McKinsey & Company.

14 June 2022

Behind the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (Higg MSI) hides a large Greenwashing operation

The Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, introduced in the New York State Assembly in October 2021, obliges all fashion companies that generate more than $100 million to track at least 50% of value chains and disclose environmental impacts. However, the Higg MSI index used seems to favor the use of low-cost net fibers derived from fossil fuels. [industry-linked sustainability standard allows clothing giants to ramp up emissions – The Intercept.com]

06 June 2022

The BoF Sustainability Index 2022

The annual BoF Sustainability Index 2022 report on fashion's progress towards sustainability goals has been published, with in-depth assessments of the performance of the 30 largest companies in the sector. The results confirm that the fashion and sportswear industry need to engage more in good sustainability practices to transform the industry by 2030

19 May 2022

Growing Urgency of Transparency in the Fashion Industry

The Roadmap to Net Zero report, published by the World Resources Institute and the Apparel Impact Institute, commented by Material Exchange. One of the main takeaways of the report is the estimated emissions produced by the fashion sector.

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