By SPESA

As we mentioned in this month’s SPESA Speaks, there were a few key topics that piqued our interest this year and we would like to explore more. To close out 2020, we wanted to provide a quick breakdown of the news articles and discussions that have surrounded these topics in recent months.

2020 News on Sustainability:

• Can Rethinking Consumption Ever Really Be Fashionable? - December 2020

• Researchers Make the Business Case for Sustainability Investments - December 2020

• Consumers Are Confused About What Ethical Fashion Really Means - December 2020

• Covid-10 Hampers Fashion Industry’s Circularity Drive - November 2020

• Transparency Success Depends on Like-minded Supply Partners - July 2020

• Sustainability Could Push ‘Virtual Fashion’ Market to $150 Billion - July 2020

• There Needs to be a Reckoning in the Fashion Industry - September 2020

• Green Brands Have a Head Start on Fashion’s Post-Virus Recovery - May 2020

• Current Events Have Made Transparency a Top Consumer Demand - June 2020

• Covid Could Be Turning Point for Fast Fashion Brands to Act Responsibly - July 2020

• Fashion’s Circular Economy Could Be Worth $5 Trillion - November 2020

• Industrial Sustainability Focuses on Energy Management - December 2020

• How Sustainability in the Manufacturing Process Can Help Close the Loop in the Supply Chain - November 2020

• How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Became Denim’s Instrument of Change - December 2020

• Brands Selling Sustainability Must Earn Consumers’ Trust - November 2020

• Chemical Management Key to Achieving Production Sustainability - November 2020

• Initiatives in Textile Recycling - November 2020

• 21 Billion Pounds of Textiles Wind Up in Landfills Annually. Is a Sustainable Textile Supply Chain Possible? - September 2020

• Sustainable Supply Chains - A Force for Real Change - April 2020

• Manufacturers Key to Realising Circular Fashion - September 2020

Previously Included in Behind the Seams:

• Is 2020 the Year of Conscious Fashion? - November 2020

• Made-to-Order: Detroit's Fashion Industry Takes Aim at Sustainability - August 2020

• In Fashion, Social Impact Is the New Black - June 2020

• Sustainable Technology and Consumer Lifestyles Guide Denim Trim Makers - September 2020

• ‘Post-Pandemic Fashion Will Be Sustainable And Affordable’: Interview With Anna Gedda - August 2020

Other 2020 Hot Topics:

• Reshoring

• Workforce Development