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What’s Eating Fashion Today? Part 3: Technology and R&D

Problem no. 3: Technology and R&D If you’ve been following this series on 4 macrotrends that’s affecting fashion, you’d know by now that fashion has always had a hard time dealing with demand volatility and in today’s market, there’s extra pressures on getting radical transparency right, because this adds to consumer demand. This article is […]

What’s Eating Fashion Today? Part 2: Radical Transparency

Now that we’ve laid some groundwork on fashion’s supply chain management and agility to respond to a volatile market, let’s continue to highlight the other trends niggling at fashion today.  Part 2: Radical Transparency  One of the things that often gets missed in the realm of fashion activism or ‘sustainable’ manufacturing is that nobody really […]

What’s Eating Fashion Today? Part 1: Demand Volatility

The fashion industry is huge.  Like, HUGE huge. It has so many moving parts to it since the advent of current-day globalisation has let #fashion manufacture their clothes via a global assembly line. If you’re reading this blogpost then you would have some knowledge already about the origins of fast fashion and its predecessor–high-street fashion —but to recap, I’ll […]