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What hampers fashion innovation scaling?

Despite the fashion industry’s current boom in innovations that tackle its biggest problems like textile waste, reliance on fossil fuels, harmful dyes and more, the pace of scaling is trailing behind. In a new report, the denim supply chain platform and think tank Transformers Foundation has identified three main barriers as well as three...

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Fifteen years on, Addis Ababa sharpens its focus and looks inward

Hub of Africa Fashion Week (HAFW) has never been about spectacle. Founded by Mahlet Teklemariam, it is an intimate, boutique platform built on care, conversation, and genuine human connection. Today, it stands as the third-largest fashion platform on the African continent, yet its strength has never come from scale alone. Its power lies in...

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Vinted announces “major” US expansion to address growing demand

European resale platform Vinted has made a more definitive leap over the pond to launch its services in the US. Its expansion in the region, beginning with New York, responds to evidence of a growing need among Americans for an outlet to offload their secondhand goods. The latest shift hints at an intention to potentially scale the platform in...

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Canopy outlines details of 2 billion dollar investment blueprint for decarbonization in India

Solutions-driven environmental non-profit Canopy has outlined the finer details of its new 2 billion US dollar finance platform designed to speed up the growth of low-carbon materials and transform the paper, packaging, and textile supply chains. Said to be the first of its kind, the new initiative, announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos...

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