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Observation can really help a company gain insight on what a consumer truly wants. There is less of a bias because consumers are just performing their daily tasks, not necessarily realizing they are being observed. For example, observing the public by taking street style photos of people, the consumer did not get dressed in the… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021

A representative from The Root, black culture magazine commented on the ad that it portrays the message that black people are undervalued and seen like props for white people to look better. There were different points of views on this issue, some saying that people are being too sensitive, and some getting offended. Regardless of… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021

A few days after the 2010 Fall Fashion Week in New York City came to a close, The New Islander’s Fashion Editor, Genevieve Tax, criticized the fashion industry for running on a seasonal schedule of its own, largely at the expense of real-world consumers. “Savvy shoppers, consequently, have been conditioned to be extremely, perhaps impractically,… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021

Ysabl is a graduate of BA Communication Arts with area of specialization in Advertising and Public Relations. She recently studied in Slim’s Fashion and Arts School during which she was able to intern for international fashion designer Tex Saverio for Fashion Exchange International. Her inclination to “do something” has been building up since childhood years… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021

This year, 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers were reviewed and ranked according to what information they disclose about their social and environmental policies, practices and impacts, in their operations and supply chain. Internet technology, enabling the far reaches of online retailers and social media platforms, has created previously unimaginable ways for… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021

Locally produced cloth and cheaper European imports were assembled into new styles to accommodate the growing elite class of West Africans and resident gold and slave traders. There was an exceptionally strong tradition of cloth-weaving in Oyo and the areas inhabited by the Igbo people. Fashion, or one’s own personal style, functions as a “societal… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021

I am passionate about cinema, writing, reading and connecting it all to sustainability. 96% do not publish a roadmap on how they plan to achieve a living wage for all workers in their supply chain. For brands that have been reviewed year-on-year since 2017, we have seen their average scores on transparency progressively increase. Academic… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021

Previously, Carry set up her multi-award winning fashion brand Pachacuti in 1992 after a Masters in Native American Studies, supporting sustainable, rural livelihoods for women in the Andean region. Pachacuti pioneered radical supply chain transparency and was the world’s first Fair Trade Certified company. Her collections were shown at London, Paris and Milan Fashion Week… Continue reading Fashion Transparency Index 2021