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Rakuten Offers Members Early Access to New York Fashion Week Designs

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Rakuten has returned to New York Fashion Week and is offering its members exclusive items for pre-sale from the runway shows of designers Prabal Gurung , Sergio Hudson , Patricia Bonaldi ( PatBO ) and Rachel Scott ( Diotima ). The items will be revealed in the designers’ respective shows during NYFW, which kicks off Feb.

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M&S to Host Reality Competition Series to Find its Next Fashion Designer

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British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is on the hunt for a new fashion designer, and the search will play out on screens across the UK in a new reality TV series set to arrive on ITV1 and ITVX this fall.

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3 Ways Fashion Brands can Move Toward Sustainable Business Models

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As prices continue rising, consumers rely on a combination of their wallets and consciences when deciding which fashion industry trends to buy into. Shoppers have been so eager to applaud sustainable apparel production that the eco-fashion industry faces concerns both in terms of greenwashing and stiff competition verging on saturation.

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3 Ways Fashion Brands can be More Sustainable Today

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The fashion industry has been questioned a lot about its environmental impact. As new regulations are enforced and consumers develop ever-more-sophisticated expectations around a brand’s environmental impact, fashion brands have to do more than claim they are compliant. A few ways fashion brands can be more sustainable now include: 1.

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ThredUP Continues Anti-Fast Fashion Offensive with V-Day Campaign, adds Francesca’s to Resale Roster

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ThredUP is teaming up with TikToker Nava Rose to launch the Dump Fast Fashion Shop, an online secondhand storefront to help consumers thrift for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Nava Rose models one of her styles for the Dump Fast Fashion shop on ThredUP. “I Together with ThredUP, I’m committed to ghosting fast fashion.

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How Transparency and Traceability can Drive Sustainable Fashion

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is now withholding fashion goods in customs unless the importer can prove that they do not contain cotton from the Xinxiang region of China. With the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) finding that 40% of environmental claims made by fashion brands could be misleading, there is ample room for improvement.

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With SHEIN Exchange Launch, Retailer Uses Resale to Mend its Wasteful Fast Fashion Ways

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This pilot version is part of SHEIN’s larger commitment to address the ongoing issues of textile waste and build a more circular fashion industry. SHEIN also has become a signatory of World Circular Textiles Day, a coalition of organizations with a mission to shift the fashion and textiles industry toward full circularity by 2050. “At

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