{"id":9,"date":"2017-02-22T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/?p=9"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:38:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:38:25","slug":"fashion-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/2017\/02\/22\/fashion-and-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion and Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If asked, the average person would be hard-pressed to specifically identify the various brands\u00a0the Kering company owns. But if I were to tell\u00a0people that they owned such luxury brands like Gucci, Stella McCartney, Puma, Bottega Venata, Balenciaga, and many more, I may find that many people\u00a0are more familiar with those brands. Many people may identify luxury brands with opulence and extravagance. We often don&#8217;t think of the fashion industry as bastions of a sustainable business model. However, this is exactly the position that Francois-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering wants to be in. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2016-12-22\/fran-ois-henri-pinault-on-a-more-sustainable-fashion-industry\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Businessweek article &#8220;The Future of Fashion Is Mushroom Leather,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Pinault discusses the company&#8217;s sustainability report and how they are addressing sustainability in all areas of their fashionable supply chain&#8211;from python farms to their brand designers.<\/p>\n<p>Class discussion questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is sustainability an important issue for the fashion industry?<\/li>\n<li>How does Kering&#8217;s initiatives impact their supply chain?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If asked, the average person would be hard-pressed to specifically identify the various brands\u00a0the Kering company owns. But if I were to tell\u00a0people that they owned such luxury brands like Gucci, Stella McCartney, Puma, Bottega Venata, Balenciaga, and many more, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/2017\/02\/22\/fashion-and-sustainability\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355817,770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-society","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/busandsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}