Suzi Delaney, Founder of Rplanet, presents key takeaways from the Fashion Roundtable X COVID-19 Weekly Webinar— all centred around the question, what does The New Normal look like?

For every environmentally and socially conscious Gen Z consumer, there is another shopping for fast-fashion on their phone. This need for cheap, fast-fashion is a direct result of the extreme pressures faced on social media to look good and to shop ‘new’ even in times of a pandemic. In order to change the way the next generation of consumers approach fast fashion, we must put ethics and sustainability above profit-making.

We are posing the question what is "The New Normal" on our Friday webinar and I am interested to hear what people would like our lives, our business and our economy to be when we leave the lockdown.

In light of the recent announcement that the next London Fashion Week is going to be held digitally, and will merge its womenswear and menswear shows, Bev Malik analyses how the pandemic is set to affect fashion month and how it may have a sustained impact on the fashion calendar in the future.

Academics Kate Fletcher and Mat­­­­hilde Tham have devised a robust strategy for how we can transform the fashion industry through a method that puts the earth first. With a combined experience of 50 years work within fashion and sustainability, the recently published “Earth Logic Fashion Research Action Plan” is a timely call to action.

Many journalists have likened the situation in which we find ourselves to World War 2. In truth, there are far more differences than similarities – but certainly there are parallels to be seen in fashion. For WW2 altered fashion’s shape, just as COVID-19 is forcing large scale change on the industry now.

This paper is intended to provide useful directions for new manufacturers of Covid-19 PPE for healthcare and for other key workers. The OPSS PPE Legislation Guidance for Businesses (PPE Regulations) includes guidelines for importers, but this category is not addressed in the current research paper. This is a research paper and it is advised you seek and consult the relevant legal and professional advice for manufacturing PPE equipment.

Peter Penny, an expert on psychology in the workspace, and mentoring people to greater success in their lives and career shares his advice for navigating the Coronavirus pandemic.

Tansy Hoskins, author of Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World, argues how "hypebeast" culture — which fuels our obsession with collecting the latest trainers — is causing an environmental catastrophe.

A recent report from ITV News once again uncovered the shocking reality of the UK’s fast fashion habits. But this time, its findings were somewhat unexpected. While many view recycling as the best way of combatting overconsumption, in reality, the second-hand clothes we are exporting to countries such as Africa are causing an “environmental catastrophe”.

Last week, our CEO Tamara Cincik was asked by the UK government to create an informative vlog explaining the work Fashion Roundtable have been doing on PPE procurement for our NHS heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch here:

As an organisation, Fashion Roundtable facilitate collaboration between the worlds of politics and fashion; bridging the gap between policy makers and creative leaders. In the past few weeks, our role quickly became vital to facilitating conversations between UK government and manufacturers with the capacity to produce masks and personal protective clothing for the NHS and wider public.

The temporary closure of High Streets and malls throughout Europe and North America is causing financial hardship that some brands will never recover from. But the knock-on effect stretches far beyond Western shores. Arguably those hit hardest are the garment-factory workers in South Asia who are reporting $3.02 billion dollars of cancelled or suspended orders from retailers.

Behind the scenes we have been busy lobbying for the fashion and textiles industry across a number of different issues and across several different Whitehall departments.

Updated Information on the Coronavirus Financial Support deployed by the Government. Including information on available Grants, Tax and Rates, Reimbursements and Loans.

As the fashion industry has been upended with lower volumes, idle workers and restless energy, brands have turned their efforts towards doing what they can to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Here we take a look at the relief efforts across the world.

Currently we are working from home and around the clock to ensure support for the fashion industry and wider afield during the pandemic. While the lines between the days are becoming blurred, we are grateful for the strength amongst our community.

“Like many other fashion freelancers in the UK, this has been a nail-biting couple of weeks for me. Since Covid-19 hit the UK, all of my talks and workshops have been postponed, all freelance hours have been cut, leaving me with very little income until normality commences.”

We examine what are ‘essential and non-essential’ jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic by looking at the conflict between government’s call for “business to carry on” under social distancing guidelines and the British General Union’s concerns for warehouse workers in fashion.