In the new era, the new pattern of the world is being re-established, and sustainable development has become a key track for rebuilding a new commercial order. At this time, China's fashion industry is accelerating its transformation and upgrading, taking green development as the guide and building a high-quality development system for the whole industry with the practical action of all-round development of production, life and ecology. In this process, China's fashion industry adheres to the mission of assuming the responsibility of a big country and sustainable development, accelerates the pace of enterprise transformation and upgrading with green and low-carbon order, obtains rich and positive returns at the commercial level, and deeply cultivates the fertile soil for sustainable development to help social development and industry move forward.
As an industry event, the second sustainable fashion practitioners' blockbuster event is still attracting the attention of the whole industry. The "2021 Sustainable Fashion Practitioners Directory" issued this time was jointly selected and judged by the Social Responsibility Office of the China Textile and Apparel Industry Federation, the China Garment Association, the co-organizers China International Fashion Expo CHIC, the China Garment Association Journal "China Apparel" and WWW China, together with 12 authoritative experts from the fields of government, industry, academia and research.
In the past three months, Chinese local brands have enthusiastically participated, and more than 100 local enterprises have stood out. Based on their insights and observations on the fashion industry, and combined with the 12 Sustainable Development Goals of China's fashion industry, the 12 members of the Judging Committee carefully selected 17 companies that have achieved outstanding results in sustainable fashion dimensions such as green manufacturing, environmental friendliness, technological innovation, employee well-being, public education, responsible investment, circular economy, and climate action.
Among these commended enterprises, there are familiar national classic brands, and there are also some "behind-the-scenes heroes" who are not well known to the general public but have far-reaching industry influence. Their fields of operation and development may be different, but they are all advanced forces that practice sustainable fashion and promote the high-quality development of green economy in China's textile and apparel industry.
(List of companies/brands in no particular order)
As one of the world's largest consumer markets and supply chain producers, China's change in sustainable fashion is the world's biggest change force, and the little change of every industry practitioner and consumer is the ecological sustainable living water.
Today, fashion that embraces a sustainable strategy and lays out the future has developed into an emerging industry and is rapidly rising in the Chinese market. As the industry's first industry event to truly link industry and consumption, the "Sustainable Fashion Practitioners" series of activities has great and far-reaching significance for the entire industry. Behind this china's first focus on "sustainable fashion" + "practice innovation" commendation, a group of Chinese brands are relying on perseverance to seek the future and be friends of time. WWD
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