Join circularity leaders, innovators, and worker advocates in conversation with BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab and consumer sector experts as we discuss emerging technologies in the fashion industry, their potential to transform industries, and the need to integrate sustainability with intention.
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Connected Clothing: Digital Innovations to Advance Circularity
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 / Webinar
A BSR Fast Forward
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Deep Dive
Digital innovations are accelerating the fashion industry’s shift toward circular models. New data standards, labeling technologies, and policy supports are making it possible to track and manage material flows past end-of-life on the product level, providing new opportunities for transparency, resource optimization, and waste management.
Can the provision of data about individual garment attributes in a standardized format help scale reuse and recycling? Could these “digital passports
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” provide new opportunities to add value to apparel products through circular business models and reward producers accordingly? As we explore these possibilities, the shift toward a digitally enabled model of circular fashion holds lessons for other industries as well.
Join BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab
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and consumer sector
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experts and speakers from Eon, the H&M Group, and the OR Foundation as we discuss these emerging technologies, their potential to transform industries, and the need to integrate sustainability with intention. We will explore:
Connected clothing’s potential to reshape the fashion industry and what it would take to get there
Implications for workers and communities in the supply chain
Opportunities to enable transparency, create more equitable payment structures, and shift power dynamics
Sustainability challenges as waste management and recycling become a core component of circular industries and the role technology could play in improvements
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These critical issues for a just, fair and inclusive fashion system are currently under exploration by Keeping Workers in the Loop
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(KWIL), a collaboration of industry leaders and stakeholders seeking to advance a circular fashion industry that works for all.
The project is supported by Laudes Foundation and Sida, and led by BSR, in partnership with CMS and economists from the University of Lincoln, and includes H&M Group, Shahi Exports, The Renewal Workshop, and VF Corporation as industry partners.
Event Details
Date and Time
Thursday, April 29, 2021
11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT
Location
Webinar
Speakers
Margot Brent
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, Associate, BSR
Cliodhnagh Conlon
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, Associate Director, BSR
Natasha Franck, Founder and CEO, Eon
Sarah Hayes, Circularity Expert, H&M Group
Liz Ricketts, Co-Founder and Director, The OR Foundation
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About Us
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