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Editor’s comment: Fashion retail steps up to sustainability challenge

This week Drapers Conscious Fashion Summit 2025, held at Hilton Bankside London on 12 March, tackled the topics that are at the forefront of fashion retail’s ESG strategies, helping businesses to make better-informed decisions and explore new ways for the industry to share challenges, goals and collaborate. Five years into the critical decade to fight climate change, fashion retailers, brands and suppliers are rising to the immense challenge before them despite cost and trading pressures: sustainability now forms a vital part of businesses’ strategies and Drapers Conscious Fashion Summit provided an opportunity for the industry to come together and action change for the future. Across the day, more than 300 delegates unpicked some of the biggest challenges- and solutions- facing our industry, from understanding upcoming legislation that aims to transform fashion retail, to material innovation, supply chain transparency, greenwashing, circular business models, building sustainable growth and social i

about 1 month ago

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Drapers Conscious Fashion Week launches

Drapers Conscious Fashion Week 2025 tackles the topics that are at the forefront of the industry's ESG strategies, helping you to make better-informed business decisions and explore new ways for the industry to share goals and collaborate. We will examine how retailers are grappling to comply with a growing list of sustainability regulations including three incoming European Union-wide regulations: the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). We will also investigate how businesses are reducing the carbon footprints of their freight and supply chain operations, get insight from leading businesses on how they are achieving sourcing goals and much more. For further collaboration, join us at Drapers Conscious Fashion Conference and Awards on 12 March – co-located at Hilton London Bankside. We will spend the day sharing insight and examining industry-wide challenges, b

about 1 month ago

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Editor’s comment: Sustainability must remain a priority despite hea...

We are five years into the critical decade in the fight against climate change and the fashion industry’s impact on the environment is growing. Worldwide the fashion industry is responsible for 2%-8% of global greenhouse gasses, the United Nations reports, and last year the fashion sector emitted around 959 million metric tonnes of CO2 equivalents, Statista states. This is forecast to rise to more than 1.2 billion metric tonnes by 2030 without a concerted effort to reduce it. As the third-largest clothing market in the world behind the US ($358.7bn/£293.2bn) and China ($328.5bn/£268.5bn), the UK plays a significant role: consumers spent $75.6bn (£61.8bn) on clothing in 2023 – up from $75.3bn (£61.6bn) in 2022. Fashion retailers, brands and suppliers are rising to the immense challenge before them: sustainability now forms a vital part of businesses’ strategies, but as they battle increased costs and subdued consumer spend, there is a danger of it falling down the priority list. In our Mar

about 1 month ago

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Editor’s comment: Lyttle must build on M&S’s success

The fashion retail rumour mills had been whirling for several months about Price’s departure – although he and M&S remained tight lipped – and he will exit the retailer after five stellar years on 30 April to pursue a portfolio career. During his latest tenure Price revived and restored confidence in the high street stalwart. For more than a decade clothing sales at Marks & Spencer were caught in a spiral of decline. Hindered by myriad challenges, from a drop in fabric quality and lack of strong design handwriting, to stock issues, tired stores and too many layers of bureaucracy internally. The job of leading the UK’s largest clothing retailer by value was dubbed “the poisoned chalice” – many tried and many failed to revive M&S and reinstate it as the darling of the high street. Price did just that, which led him to be named Drapers Leader of the Year 2023. A seasoned retail professional, Price’s experience spans more than three decades at Next, M&S, BHS and Tesco's F&

2 months ago

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Editor’s comment: Retail is rallying – but where is government help?

As stormy January skies begin to give way to brighter February evenings, retail remains in choppy waters as sweeping cost hikes threaten to decimate already fragile balance sheets. Fashion retailers are assessing all aspects of their businesses, from store portfolios to operations, pricing, and staffing across head office and stores to try to mitigate impending rises in minimum wages and National Insurance. From April, employers’ National Insurance contributions will rise by 1.2 percentage points to 15% and the payroll threshold at which businesses become liable for the tax will be reduced from £9,100 to £5,000 per year. Meanwhile, the minimum wage will increase 6.7% to £12.21/ hour for over-21s. This means it will cost £2,500 more a year to employ someone on minimum wage working a 38-hour week. Predictably, many retailers have launched redundancy consultations in reaction to the changes. Drapersonline exclusively revealed that both River Island and PrettyLittleThing are making some head office

2 months ago

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Editor’s comment: new year brings more challenges – and solutions

Last year, retailers navigated rising costs, ever-evolving consumer habits and unreliable temperatures, alongside a new government, and sweeping legislative and tax changes. Businesses pinned their hopes on a buoyant Christmas, but the all-important festive trading failed to end the year on a high for many. While Next's stellar peak performance bucked the trend, many retailers have reported “subdued” sales, and “lacklustre” Christmas trading brought fewer shoppers to all locations, across all four nations of the UK in December, leading footfall for the month of December to drop 2.2% year on year, the latest BRC-Sensormatic data shows. It capped a difficult year for fashion retail, when total footfall for the 12 months was down 2.2% on 2023, marking the second year in a row of footfall in decline. Read our analysis of Christmas sales here. As attention now turns to 2025, the retail industry still faces myriad challenges. The largest private sector employer in the UK, providing around 2.8 million

3 months ago

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