The fashion industry produces far more inventory than it sells, consuming and polluting more of the planet's resources than necessary and generating about 10% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Much of this excess merchandise ...
Economics & Business
Feb 1, 2022
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Fast fashion, which encourages consumers to quickly discard and replace clothing, uses significant amounts of natural, social, and creative resources and creates excessive waste. Research into sustainable fashion aims to ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Do you wonder where your clothes come from? The material they're made of and how they are produced? Most of us don't, but if we did, we might get a bit uneasy. Now, research is helping the fashion industry take the lead in ...
Biotechnology
Oct 12, 2021
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Social media influencers—people famous primarily for posting content online—are often accused of presenting artificial versions of their lives. But one group in particular is blurring the line between real and fake.
Social Sciences
Oct 1, 2021
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Researchers found that counterfeit dominance decreases Anglo-American, but not Asian, consumers' quality perception and purchase intention of authentic brands, according to a team of researchers.
Economics & Business
Jul 5, 2021
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The British have suffered for their fashion for centuries according to a new study suggesting that a vogue for shoes with a pointed tip led to a sharp increase in hallux valgus of the big toe—often called bunions—in the ...
Archaeology
Jun 10, 2021
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From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental ...
Environment
May 20, 2021
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Most of the literature on innovation develops in the context of technology, where the degree of radical or incremental change in terms of functionality of the product can be evaluated according to objective and predictable ...
Economics & Business
May 6, 2021
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While COVID-19 hit the textile and apparel industry especially hard, businesses with a strong online presence, several manufacturing locations and an ability to quickly adjust their merchandise were better able to withstand ...
Economics & Business
Apr 30, 2021
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The Sustainability Consortium released Wednesday, April 28, the report "Project WearEver: Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Digital Tags to Measure Clothing Use," in collaboration with Arizona State University, North ...
Economics & Business
Apr 29, 2021
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