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Enabling Efficieny and Sustainability Through Traceability

Case Study

  • Credibility in collaboration: how do traceability standards aid brands in meeting their sustainability commitments?
  • Enhanced capacity in raw material tracing: reliability, usability, and interoperability of data across a product’s lifecycle through the use of global standards
  • Driving the digital transformation of standardised supply chain data through the digital product passport

 

Next Level Barrier: Fragmented value chain systems often prevent fashion’s ability to identify, capture and share information smoothly
Solution Unlock: Implementation of unified standards, creating a common language to underpin traceability processes for global accountability

✷ Includes sponsor content

The French Proposal: Policy and Penalities

Case Study

  • The swift passing of a recent bill from France’s National Assembly proposes major penalties for the sale of some fashion products
  • What qualifies as environmentally damaging and how might this proposal impact spending and consumption habits?
  • What are the details of the proposed restrictions and how is this bill moving at such an unprecedented rate?

Next Level Barrier: The uncapped growth of ultra-fast business models is environmentally damaging and negatively affects French brands and manufacturing
Solution Unlock: Explore ambitious legislation to define and regulate acceptable levels of fashion sales in France, diverting over-consumption

Tackling Transparency: From Farms to Fabric

Case Study

  • Scaling an end-to-end protocol: learnings so far from an industry-shifting cotton fiber transparency programme
  • Action on field-level data: unlocking holistic impact from farms to fabric through grower-centric supply chain reporting
  • Meeting a new burden of proof: how is policy driving brands and retailers towards cultivating deeper traceability strategies on cotton?

 

Next Level Barrier: Verified datasets for sustainable fibers are required to achieve transparency demands across all supply chain levels
Solution Unlock: Drive quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement to the key sustainability metrics of U.S. cotton production

 

✷ Includes sponsor content

Reverse Logistics for Circular Fashion Systems

Case Study

  • As circular partnerships develop, a growing need for integrated reverse logistics is emerging across the fashion sector
  • What are the strongest transition strategies for circular futures globally – and what role do reverse logistics play?
  • Exploring opportunities: where can the fashion and logistics industries collaborate to co-create powerful solutions at scale


Next Level Barrier:
Despite globally fragmented efforts, circular fashion systems are not yet in place

Solution Unlock: Integrated logistics partnerships to drive the creation of stronger networks through co-ordinated efforts

 ✷ Includes sponsor content

Celebrating Circular Business Models

Case Study

  • Rethinking value: what will it take to keep products in use through circular business models?
  • A question of scale: tactics, techniques and incentives for making second-hand the first choice from both brand and retailer perspectives
  • Increased revenue from circular business models: what metrics signal success for circular businesses, and how can fashion brands start making the transition?

 

Next Level Barrier: The majority of fashion sector revenue is not coming from circular business models
Solution Unlock: Rethink performance indicators, incentives, products and customer experiences while eliminating messages encouraging unnecessary consumption 

Beyond Responsibility: What about Reduction?

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Unlocking Global Collaboration

Case Study

  • Fashion is a global sector with a global value-chain – so relies on successful collaboration between a wide range of stakeholders, regions and emerging markets
  • In today’s global context and macro-economic climate, how are new iterations of collaboartion elevating the development of the fashion sector as a whole?
  • How is fashion empowering practitioners in the field in paradigm-shifting and inspiring new ways ?

 

Next Level Barrier: Region-specific context must be understood by all collaborating stakeholders working towards a circular economy
Solution Unlock: Connect specific value-chain innovations and regional markets within a wider context of strategy towards a thriving fashion sector

✷ Includes partner + grantor content

Futureproofing Fashion Transport

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