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How To Be A More Transparent Business

Transparency might be a buzzword in the fashion industry right now, but what does it mean, why is it important, and what does best practice transparency look like?

What is transparency?

Radical Transparency was one of the top ten fashion industry trends identified in the McKinsey / Business of Fashion The State of Fashion 2019 report. But what exactly is it, and why is it so important?

Put simply, transparency is about knowing - and revealing - where your products are made, under what conditions, at what cost and under what terms of trade.

This doesn’t just mean how they are made at the last step in the chain; it means going right back to the raw mate…

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