Fashion Industry

Fashion retailer Shein says it plans to make its supply chain infrastructure and technology available to other brands.

In this episode, of the frictionless podcast Danielle Malconian discusses the online apparel business and the market for plus-size fashion. Retail supply chain and the circular economy. Trends in the retail supply chain industry podcast.

Recently at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, designer Stella McCartney and Dame Ellen MacArthur cohosted the launch of a sustainability report that sets out a new vision for the retail fashion industry.

This study identifies major challenges that fashion industry supply chains will face in the future as well as areas where action must be taken, and it also proposes various solutions.

The Human-Centered Supply Chain Playbook aims to make sense of the new landscape while addressing the overarching challenges experienced by designers and supply chain partners alike.

‘The Human-Centered Supply Chain – Delivered by DHL’ study with CFDA and in collaboration with Accenture, highlights four key areas of focus for building a design business in the new fashion landscape.

While global fashion brands dictate the precise designs of clothes down to the last stitch, their claim to have little power to ensure the basic rights of workers in factories is absurd, they simply don’t care.

The first edition of the Fashion Transparency Index includes 40 of the biggest global fashion brands, which we have selected based on annual turnover, and we relied on publicly available financial information to choose this selection of brands and their inclusion was not voluntary.

Many companies do not really know where their clothes are being made, and the vast majority of today’s fashion brands do not own their manufacturing facilities, making it difficult to monitor working conditions throughout the supply chain.