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Verifying green claims: A new benchmark for water usage in indigo dyeing

What makes an indigo dyeing process “sustainable?” And what is the average amount of water used to dye denim today? The answer is - we do not know as there has been no benchmark to date that compares processes of denim mills worldwide. There have been, however, water saving claims galore but again, without a benchmark, it is hard to gauge what...

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Inside the Dick’s Sporting Goods playbook: A deep dive into Foot Locker’s new parent company

While Foot Locker is well-known internationally, Dick’s Sporting Goods has largely flown under the radar outside of North America. But its trajectory, from a local bait-and-tackle shop to a 13 billion dollar sporting goods powerhouse, reveals a strategy built on consistent expansion, retail innovation and operational persistence. From bait shop...

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Fashion

20 years on: A brief history of Tokyo’s fashion week

As the 20th edition of Tokyo Fashion Week begins to wrap up, it seems an apt time to look back on the evolution of Japan’s leading fashion event and how it has been reshaped over its lifespan. This season, under the theme ‘Be The Seam That Connects The World - JFW 20 + 20’, the fashion week wished not only to pay tribute to its 20-year history,...

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How Botika is transforming brand content creation with AI-powered fashion photography

Doubling your customer base is a common goal that most fashion startups share. But doubling your customer base within the span of a month? That's a different story, one that Botika AI, a generative AI fashion company specializing in the creation of content and product photos using AI models, found itself in last December. A perhaps enviable, but...

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