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Meet Maqu: Sustainable Peruvian label aiding childhood education

Buenos Aires – Maqu is a Peruvian sustainable fashion brand originally established in Berlin. Its DNA is based on nature and works under guidelines of social responsibility and carries out initiatives for the education of children in the Andes of Peru. The brand was founded in 2016 by the Peruvian Marisa Fuentes Prado. It proposes a fully...

Podcast

Podcast: CEO of Mytheresa on competing for luxury shoppers

In this episode of the Glossy Podcast, the CEO of Mytheresa, Michael Kliger, has discussed competing for luxury shoppers and the online retailer's customer first approach. Other topics that were talked about were its expansion into menswear, and on becoming more sustainable. Listen to the podcast below. Source: The Glossy Podcast via Megaphone...

Fashion

Phoebe Waller-Bridge to auction Golden Globes suit for Australia fire relief

Awards season is always a time for celebrities and other prominent members of the entertainment industry to use their platforms to bring awareness towards specific causes, and the 2020 Golden Globe Awards ceremony—which marks the beginning of the awards ceremony circuit—was no exception. And while Golden Globe recipients took the opportunity of...

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Will the Global Fashion Agenda succeed in making sustainability the norm?

Fact - the fashion industry remains one of the most environmentally damaging industries in the world. In 2015 alone the global industry consumed 79 billion cubic meters of water, released 1,715 million tons of CO2 and produced 92 million tons of waste alone according to data from the Boston Consulting Group. In addition, because the industry has...

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Fashion Leaders of Tomorrow share UN resolution draft

London - The fashion leaders of tomorrow are acutely aware of the problems they stand to inherit from the current industry which range from pollution to gender inequality and overconsumption. Which is why they insist on making sustainability the primary norm of the fashion industry. In order to achieve this, a number of fashion students from the...

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Fashion Industry Leaders vow to move towards a Circular System

If the global fashion industry wishes to secure its future then now is the time to come together to and takes steps towards a circular system. That was the main takeaway from the Copenhagen Fashion Summit this week, which took place on May 11 at the Koncerthuset in one of the most green countries in the world: Denmark. Industry leaders from...