There are positive signs of growth in the fashion industry, and insiders say it's the perfect time to enforce meaningful change “April is the cruellest month,” laments T.S.
Eliot in The Waste Land and, in fashion, this has been a springtime like no other. The coronavirus outbreak has forced an infamously rigid industry to amend its ways.
In a matter of weeks, supply chains have been realigned, production cycles rewired and smart-working procedures put into action. “By the end of this pandemic, as if after a war, only our buildings will remain standing and everything else will have changed,” trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort wrote as she launched The World Hope Forum in mid-April - a collective calling for more caring means of production.