5 ways to shift consumers towards sustainable behaviour

Most people want to be sustainable, but have a hard time taking the necessary actions.  According to Nielsen, a data analytics company, sustainability is the latest consumer trend. Their research shows chocolate, coffee and bath products with sustainability claims grew much faster than their traditional counterparts. Yet only 0.2 per cent of chocolates and 0.4 per cent of coffees have...

Things To Look For In A Sustainable Garment

Fashion Transparency Index, for example, is an excellent source of information on top brands. It shows which companies have taken significant effort in opening their operations details to the public as well as those which prefer to keep such peculiarities in secret which leads to increased suspicion and distrust. If you need a to do a fast check on some piece of clothing you’ve just found...

How E-Commerce Benefits the Fashion Industry

Fashion brands and retailers model their business with the latest technologies to meet the demand of consumers and stay ahead of competition. The fashion industry is booming with the growing number of customers from e-commerce websites. To help you understand better, we have listed below some of these benefits. Rise in Investor Confidence According to recent news, a fashion e-commerce...

The Importance of eCommerce to the Fashion and Apparel Industry

In today’s advance age of technology, what satisfaction means for customers is having access to an entire range of items on their fingertips. Being able to browse through a wide variety of brands on a mobile device, tablet, or a desktop computer, is what people now find convenient. One thing that people frequently browse online are fashion products — this makes the fashion industry the...

Sustainable Clothing: What to look for when buying Eco-Friendly Garments

Here are four things to look for when buying eco-friendly garments.Fashion’s dirty little secret is increasingly neither little nor secret, but it is indeed dirty.  Fashion has emerged as one of the biggest sources of pollution on the planet. According to a study by the United Nations Environmental Programme, the fashion industry produces 20 percent of global waste water, and 10 percent...

Sustainability in Textile Industry; Reality and Challenges

Sustainability in textile industry has become an extensively debated issue due to the nature of the industry. Textiles is considered globally as one of the most hazardous both to environment and society if not operated in a controlled way. Unfortunately, in Bangladesh textile industries still has a huge scope of improvement. Without being sustainable the survival of the textile industries is...

How to Decipher “Sustainable Fashion” in 2020

Fashion is a multi-billion dollar industry. When we think of sustainability and fashion we do observe a gap in the market. As consumers and retailers we need to understand that we are a part of a circular economy . If you think of sustainability it’s foundation is based on 3P’s , they are — People, Planet and Profit. It is important to strike a balance between these three. Fashion has been...

Sustainability Facts Check!

One of the items that most people must have is clothing. NudistColonies are definitely a rarity, therefore we must all wear clothes orat least we should at work. (Who wants to be sued for sexualharassment!). Facts:* It takes 1 pound of polluting chemicals to every 3 pounds offinished fabric.* Growing Cotton uses 22.55 of all the insecticides used Globally.* Growing enough cotton for 1 T-shirt...