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Textile Exchange: Sustainable fashion reckons with “the era of disruption”

Sustainable fashion is going through a tough transition, and that played out onstage last week at the annual Textile Exchange conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Over 1,600 stakeholders from across the fashion supply chain showed up, hoping to make sense of the chaos we find ourselves working through. An audience poll taken on the first day…

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In a similar vein, London-based upcyclist Christopher Raeburn (who also serves as global creative director of VF Corp-owned Napapijri) has been running open studio tours for customers and potential brand collaborators for over a decade. He says it has been a fundamental tool in converting customers to more sustainable consumption habits, and justifying the high…