Fast fashion is one of the biggest challenges to sustainable garments and an equitable supply chain within the fashion industry. With the demand for sustainable fashion rising, many fashion retailers are cleaning up their supply chain and improving their working conditions and hiring practices. But what does it mean to be truly sustainable in the fashion industry? How has the pandemic affected the industry and movement towards a more sustainable supply chain? Leveraging industry knowledge from financing through end-stage production, Ashia Sheikh Dearwester, chief strategy and partnerships officer at Nest; Mallory McConnell, senior director of supplier sustainability and partnerships at PVH Corp; Anushka Salinas, ’10BUS, president and chief operating officer at Rent The Runway; and Jessica Schreiber, ’11GSAS, founder and CEO at FABSCRAP, explored multi-layered approaches to mitigating the impacts of garment and footwear supply chains on people and the environment. This session was moderated by Rachel Cernansky, ’08JRN, sustainability editor at Vogue Business and freelance journalist.
