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Sustainability Takes a Back Seat, Even at Sustainable Fashion Brands

In a challenging market, a generation of brands that helped pioneer ‘sustainable fashion’ are shifting their sales pitch, letting design, not values, do the talking.
An Asket campaign covers a shop window with messages for shoppers to consumer less.
For the last decade, Swedish slow fashion brand Asket’s marketing has revolved around encouraging shoppers to consume less. In a challenging market, it’s switching tack to focus on its product first. (Asket)

Since its founding ten years ago, Swedish slow fashion brand

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Can Brands Still Make the Case for Sustainable Fashion?

In a climate where consumers are wary of greenwashing and a backlash against “woke capitalism” takes shape, brands peddling sustainability messaging have to treat the topic with a degree of irreverence and put the product first.

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Sarah Kent
Sarah Kent

Sarah Kent is Chief Sustainability Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in London and drives BoF's coverage of critical environmental and labour issues.

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