by Fashion Innovation Alliance | May 13, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
Quartz/ Marc Bain/ May 13, 2019 The US is in the process of increasing tariffs on essentially everything the country imports from China, meaning industries spared from previous tariff hikes are probably going to be hit now. One category where shoppers are...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | May 7, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
Bloomberg/ Robert Williams/ May 7, 2019 All the recycled water-bottle sneakers, organic cotton tote bags, and mushroom-leather belts on retailers’ shelves last season weren’t enough to turn back the dial on the fashion industry’s environmental footprint. The...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Apr 24, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The Guardian/ Scarlett Conlon/ April 24, 2019 Adidas, Reebok and H&M are among the brands leading the way when it comes to transparency in their supply chain, a new report has found. The Fashion Transparency Index has rated 200 of the world’s biggest...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Apr 15, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
ABC News/ Devin Dwyer/ April 15, 2019 The Supreme Court debated the meaning and propriety of “FUCT” for nearly an hour on Monday — but the word was never spoken by any of the nine justices. Justice Sonia Sotomayor referred to it as...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Mar 27, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The Guardian/ Jennifer Rankin/ March 27, 2019 The European parliament has voted to ban single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers as part of a sweeping law against plastic waste that despoils beaches and pollutes oceans. The vote by MEPs paves the...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Mar 17, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
Wired/ Issie Lapowsky/ March 17, 2019 On October 27, 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an email to his then-director of product development. For years, Facebook had allowed third-party apps to access data on their users’ unwitting friends, and Zuckerberg was...
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