Sophie Benson
Journalist at Freelance
Author and freelance journalist working with a focus on sustainable fashion, the environment, workers’ rights, and consumerism
Articles
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1 month ago |
goodonyou.eco | Sophie Benson
As political extremism reshapes the global landscape, fashion brands are quietly retreating from public commitments to sustainability and diversity. This pivot isn’t only about ethics—it’s also shortsighted business that risks long-term brand value for questionable short-term gains.
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1 month ago |
voguebusiness.com | Sophie Benson
The threat of President Trump’s import tariffs is weighing heavily on Assisi Garments. The organic cotton manufacturer, which is based in Tamil Nadu, India, provides work and training to vulnerable members of the community, such as widows and single mothers, and uses its profits to fund initiatives including cancer clinics and homes for the elderly. Its biggest brand partner, Kooshoo, which makes plastic-free hair accessories, makes 80 per cent of its sales in the US.
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2 months ago |
voguebusiness.com | Sophie Benson
For the last five years, the European Union has been a vocal advocate for tighter sustainability regulations, spurring and scaling momentum towards circularity, transparency and traceability. Then, at the end of February, progress ground to a halt — and some say it began to reverse.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
businessoffashion.com | Sophie Benson
The European Union proposed a raft of reforms to flagship sustainability regulations Wednesday, slashing environmental reporting requirements for thousands of businesses and almost entirely removing the supply chain from due diligence considerations. The trading bloc’s pioneering green agenda has played a central role in pushing fashion brands to do more to address pollution and labour abuses within the industry. Its rollback threatens already lagging efforts.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
nokillmag.com | Sophie Benson
London Fashion Week (LFW) has just wrapped for another season, and it was a big one for sustainability – London became the first of the big four fashion capitals to adopt minimum sustainability requirements. In January, the British Fashion Council (BFC) announced that it was adopting the minimum sustainability requirements which were first developed by Copenhagen Fashion Week back in 2019 and fully implemented for the AW23 season in the Danish capital.
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McKinsey: “Sustainability has fallen off the agenda, with only 18% of fashion executives citing it as a top-three risk for growth in 2025, down from 29 percent in 2024.” If we frame everything through a lens of capital we miss the wider picture. What about the risk to humanity?
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