The Weekly Briefing - 1 March

Our roundup of the week’s fashion headlines…

Stylist
“We stuck out like sore thumbs”: Lauren Nathan-Lane on the reality of being a disabled model in the fashion industry
“I loved watching this season’s London Fashion Week shows but the lack of disabled representation is so stark… The next step needs to be more disabled people behind the scenes, too: photographers, make-up artists, hair stylists. We want more disabled people in those jobs as well and we want them made accessible so that people aren’t made to feel like their access is a big deal.” Read.

VOGUE
Ukrainian Fashion Brands To Know And Support
Vogue highlights 6 Ukrainian brands supported by the USAID Competitive Economy Program, beginning with a summation of the feeling following the start of the crisis. Read.

The Guardian
Can we enjoy fast fashion without destroying the planet?
Lucy Siegle unpacks the current fashion landscape and the ‘solutions’ that may continue to harm the planet. Read.

VOGUE
Paco Rabanne, D&G, and ETRO to appear at Metaverse Fashion Week
Decentraland, a metaverse platform, is hosting the first virtual fashion week at the end of March, with a number of big luxury names signed up to ‘show’. Read.

Business of Fashion
How Can Fashion Become Truly Circular?
Dame Ellen MacArthur appears on the Business of Fashion podcast to discuss how the fashion industry can become waste-free and the true definition of circular. Read.