Second-hand clothing has been making a comeback, as consumers become more conscious of sustainability. Jack Yan asks: what is fashion’s next role? […]
Fashion’s future purpose, heading back into the Zeitgeist
January 29, 2024/10.37
Tag: UNEP
Twenty years ago: Lucire becomes UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner
June 2, 2023/12.29
It’s been 20 years since Lucire and the United Nations Environment Programme decided to work together. Jack Yan looks back at how the arrangement came about and why it’s even more vital today […]
June 23, 2022/13.11
In another entry for our 25th anniversary, Jack Yan recalls some of the people who helped get us to this milestone […]
Why we should be thankful for Stella McCartney
November 29, 2017/2.09
Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. In October, Fast Company profiled Stella McCartney in a piece that found its way to me not via Lucire, but via Medinge Group, the international think-tank on humanistic branding. Wearing that hat, we’ve long advocated corporate social responsibility, and McCartney has been “living the brand” for a […]
Lucire turns 15: bring on the future
October 21, 2012/9.45
I’ve written so many editorials about Lucire’s history for our various anniversaries that now we’ve turned 15, I feel like I’d just be going over old ground. Again. I’d do it maybe for the 20th or 21st, but the story has been told online and in print many times. But 15 is a bit […]
Thinking environmentally: Abi Ferrin interview, COP 15 highlights
December 13, 2009/10.56
On the main part of the Lucire site today: our Paris and New York correspondent, Rola Saab, interviews Abi Ferrin. Rola purposely sought out Abi because of her environmental concerns, and her latest collection was inspired by the Osa rainforest in Costa Rica. Continue reading here. As the UNEP’s first fashion industry partner, we […]
København innovates with sustainable fashion
December 6, 2009/12.21
As the first fashion industry partner of the United Nations Environment Programme since 2003, it always delights us to see the next generation of designers focus on sustainable fashion and corporate social responsibility. On December 2, the Danish fashion industry showed its Innovating Sustainable Fashion collections, with Karin Eggert Hansen, a student at the Danish […]
Gisèle Bündchen is UNEP’s new ambassador
September 21, 2009/14.09
Today on the Lucire site: we have news that supermodel Gisèle Bündchen has followed in our footsteps by partnering with the UNEP. As Lucire pioneered the idea of partnering the UNEP with the fashion industry, we’re delighted to see the environmental organization find someone as high-profile as Gisèle. Meanwhile, we have a road test […]
Miksani introduces Carbon Neutral fashion range
August 27, 2009/16.25
We’ve heard of many labels using the eco-fashion tag—after all, Lucire was the first fashion magazine to bring sustainable style into the mainstream, from 2003. Miksani, meanwhile, has gone one further with a Carbon Neutral clothing range for spring–summer 2010, launching at the Pure London Fashion Show. Miksani says its products have a minimal […]
Insight about the Honda Insight
March 21, 2009/9.46
Above: The 2000 Honda Insight for the US market. [Cross-posted] I get a bit bored of the media—this includes The New York Times today quoting ‘analysts’—saying that the Honda Insight (which got way better mileage than the Toyota Prius, and which was on sale in the US before the Prius) did not succeed because […]
