sustainability

Digital Product Passports are on the horizon. Drapers examines how fashion businesses can get started.

Online retailer N Brown Group is switching its plastic garment bags to an innovative biodegradable and recyclable polymer alternative to cut down on plastic waste. Drapers finds out more about the sustainability strategy behind the switch.

The Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL) has made an urgent plea to retailers for excess, returned and end-of-line clothing and home stock to sell in its charity shops across the UK.

Drapers hears from Primark's product longevity and partnerships lead, Vicki Swain, about the retailer's continuing mission towards sustainability and why affordability can be synonymous with durability.

As part of a new series, Anna Woods, founder of Positive Retail, shares her journey from a high street buyer to setting up her own business tackling brands’ surplus stock.

Sustainability remains firmly on fashion retail's agenda, despite rising costs, tough trading and economic headwinds.

Marcus Hartmann, head of public affairs and sustainability, North Europe at H&M, tells Drapers what a sustainable future looks like at the retailer, and how it plans to work towards its sustainability goals.

US cult womenswear brand Reformation was recognised for Best Circularity Initiative at Drapers Conscious Fashion Awards 2025. Chief sustainability officer Kathleen Talbot, and VP of global business development Sarah Hooe, tell Drapers about the brand's exemplary progress.

Building up its repair offer is a focus for the year at sustainable brand Patagonia, marketing and product director Tyler LaMotte said at the Drapers Conscious Fashion Summit on 12 March.

Drapers Conscious Fashion Week runs on 10-14 March and will examine how businesses are tackling incoming sustainability regulations, improving working conditions within the supply chain and adapting their strategies to drive positive change.

A slew of regulations including CSRD, CSDDD and ESPR will begin to make waves in the sustainability space this year. Drapers spells out what they mean for fashion retail.

Head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) for Passenger, Jane Blacklock, shares her advice for understanding factory conditions and incorporating sustainability into a fashion business, ahead of Drapers Conscious Fashion Summit on 12 March.