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GFA partners with UNEP to define new sustainable targets at COP27

The Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced at COP27 that they are partnering to launch a new ‘Fashion Industry Target Consultation,’ which will call on fashion stakeholders to define holistic and concrete targets for a net-positive industry. The ‘Fashion Industry Target Consultation' will aim to...

Nov 8, 2022

BusinessFeatured

UN releases new climate report urging for drastic change

The United Nations (UN) has released its most recent report on climate change, presenting stark warnings for the future of the climate if immediate and drastic action is not taken. The newly published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has outlined the widespread damages human-induced climate change is causing, with the UN...

Mar 1, 2022

Business

Mondottica joins UN Global Compact Network UK

Mondottica International Group, which owns licenses for the likes of Anna Sui, Cath Kidston and Ted Baker, has announced a new membership with the United Nations (UN) Global Compact and the UN Global Compact Network UK, in an extension of its sustainability and ethical commitments. The voluntary platform looks to encourage the development and...

Dec 2, 2021

Fashion

CNMI launches sustainable partnership with Ethical Fashion Initiative

The Italian fashion organisation, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI) is teaming up with the United Nations Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI) to launch a joint environmental, social, and corporate governance due diligence and corporate sustainability reporting framework for the fashion industry. The sustainable framework will enable...

Sep 27, 2021

People

Model Natalia Vodianova named new UN women's health envoy

United Nations, United States - Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova travels the world working for luxury fashion brands such as Balmain and Stella McCartney, and now as a United Nations’ goodwill ambassador she’ll be promoting a new global message about normalizing discussions on women’s reproductive and sexual health. Vodianova was named as a...

Feb 25, 2021

Fashion

Future Fashion Now competition launched by WeDesign

WeDesign has teamed up with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations (UN) to launch the Future Fashion Now global, sustainable design competition. The competition aims to engage students, designers, fashion weeks and the global fashion industry to create a sustainable outfit or accessory to inspire the future of fashion. The Ellen...

Aug 13, 2020

Schools

Future Fashion Now competition launched by WeDesign

WeDesign has teamed up with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations (UN) to launch the Future Fashion Now global, sustainable design competition. The competition aims to engage students, designers, fashion weeks and the global fashion industry to create a sustainable outfit or accessory to inspire the future of fashion. The Ellen...

Aug 13, 2020

BusinessFeatured

Primark backs UN’s appeal for garment worker support

Fast-fashion retailer Primark has endorsed the UN’s International Labour Organisation calling for urgent collaboration between stakeholders to support garment industry workers across the world affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The International Labour Organisation has issued a joint statement alongside International Organisation of Employers,...

Apr 23, 2020

Video

Video: Kate Gilmore | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70

The deputy high commissioner for human rights at the UN Human Rights Office reflects on the nature of human dignity at the Business of Fashion Voices conference. Source: Youtube, UN

Dec 31, 2018

Fashion

UN to form alliance to make fashion more sustainable

UN Environment - the United Nations’ agency assisting countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices - is set to launch an alliance on Sustainable Fashion in March. The alliance aims to encourage governments, NGOs and the private sectors to reduce fashion’s negative social, economical and environmental impact. According...

Nov 23, 2018

Fashion Featured

​Next generation of fashion leaders to deliver UN resolution

London - The fashion industry is said to thrive on change, but it's the industry's future leaders who aim to bring around the biggest change by making sustainable fashion the new norm. Next week is set to see the next generation of fashion leaders come together at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit to draft and negotiate the first-ever United Nations...

May 4, 2017

News

​Next generation of fashion leaders to deliver debut UN resolution

London - The fashion industry is said to thrive on change, but its the industry's future leaders who aim to bring around the biggest change by making sustainable fashion the new norm. Next week is set to see the next generation of fashion leaders come together at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit to draft and negotiate the first-ever United Nations...

May 4, 2017