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How Sustainability Became a Path to Fashion’s C-Suite

As big brands get serious about transforming their businesses for the future, executives with experience driving climate and social impact strategies are in hot demand.
Executives with experience in environmental sustainability and social impact are increasingly finding roles in fashion's C-suite.
Executives with experience in environmental sustainability and social impact are increasingly finding roles in fashion's C-suite. (Shutterstock)

At the start of this year, H&M Group chief executive Helena Helmersson laid out a bold ambition: by the end of the decade the fast fashion giant would

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A Guide to Fashion’s New C-Suite

The executive ranks at big brands increasingly include once-unknown job titles, reflecting an industry-wide shift in focus to improve its record on areas such as diversity, sustainability and logistics.

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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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