🧦 High Quality, and Max Comfort Meets Sustainability
Arvin News, SKIMS Scores ZERO on transparency, Fashion ads from home, Renewcell Saga, Dune Two Kimmel Interview, The Take Back Bag
Arvin News
Happy Sunday!
Today, we're diving a little deeper into why our latest collection is not just a product but a step towards a better apparel industry, without compromising the quality and comfort you've come to expect from Arvin Goods.
This collection’s heart is a commitment to high-quality materials that pave the way for a better product. Our selection of Recover Fiber, a groundbreaking material, proves our dedication to reducing our footprint through minimized water usage, energy consumption, and waste production. Yet, what truly sets this collection apart is its ability to deliver unparalleled comfort and enduring quality, proving that sustainability and luxury can go hand in hand.
Your Choice Matters. Choosing Arvin Goods is more than just opting for “eco-friendly” socks. We try not to lean on this as a marketing topic, it is something you should expect from all your favorite brands. It should be about making a statement with your wardrobe choices. Your options should prioritize low-impact materials, value craftsmanship, and refuse to compromise on comfort and quality. We represent a move towards a high-quality lifestyle, where purchasing choices can actually have a positive impact on the world around us.
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Team AG ✌️🧦
Stories Of The Week…
Fashion
SKIMS, Missguided & Temu hit the bottom of the fashion transparency barrel - DAZED
The Remake Accountability Report has entered its fourth year, calling on behemoth fashion labels across the world to bring transparency to their working practices – from where and how garments are made, where materials are sourced from, to the salaries they pay their workers, right from CEO level down to the people actually sewing the clothes. Each year, the results are pretty damning, with countless brands refusing to reveal their data, and many others sharing theirs, only to find themselves languishing at the bottom of the chart due to questionable practices.
2024 saw the US-based non-profit investigate a total of 52 brands as part of the as-yet unreleased report, attributing them each anywhere between 0 and 150 points based on social and environmental categories. Unsurprisingly, mega fast fashion brands Missguided, Fashion Nova, and the snowballing Temu platform failed to amass any points, and sank straight to the bottom of the fashion barrel. Also languishing at the bottom was SKIMS, with Kim Kardashian’s beloved shapewear line scoring zero points. Though this could mean none of the above labels agreed to share their data with Remake rather than dodgy practices, it does beg the question: why the lack of transparency if you’ve nothing to hide? 🙈👙
Design
Fashion Ads Are Embracing the Saying “There’s No Place Like Home” - dwell
About two years ago, a pattern started to emerge in fashion campaigns: models standing in settings that appeared to be bedrooms, kitchens, and other living spaces, looking straight into the camera with languid poses that made it seem as though they’d been hanging out there all day, or maybe even their entire lives. "Calling this [art direction] style ‘grandpa's lake house’" tweeted Elizabeth Goodspeed in August 2022, attaching campaign images from Bode, Nike, Aimé Leon Dore, and J.Crew, all of which featured similar backdrops with dark-wood wall paneling and vintage-inspired decor like quilts and chess sets. 🛋️📸
Industry
Renewcell Saga Proves Industry Change Won’t Happen From the Inside - Sourcing Journal
Renewcell’s bankruptcy filing confirmed what fashion industry experts have long feared: like people, the fashion industry can’t—and won’t change—unless it has to.
Poised to transform the fashion industry from the inside out, Renewcell’s Circulose, a 100-percent circular, wholly recycled product made from textile waste, was the climate friendly alternative to replace fossil fuel produced, environmentally unfriendly fabrics. But higher prices and fashion brands’ inability to “effectively” integrate Circulose into their supply chains caused demand and fanfare to wane, ultimately culminating in Renewcell declaring bankruptcy.
But Renewcell didn’t fail; it solved the problem it set out to resolve. The fashion industry failed Renewcell. 💸👖
Entertainment
Jimmy Kimmel Interviews Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler & Florence Pugh - YouTube
Dune Two is all the talk this week. This is a fun interview on the Kimmel show.🪱⚔️
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