{"id":28644,"date":"2025-05-13T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/?p=28644"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:18:04","slug":"press-op-ed-sustainability-is-no-longer-in-fashion-but-the-apparel-industrys-future-depends-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/resources\/press-op-ed-sustainability-is-no-longer-in-fashion-but-the-apparel-industrys-future-depends-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Press\/Op Ed: Sustainability is no longer in fashion, but the apparel industry's future depends on it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Lewis Perkins  | May 12, 2025 (featured on Reuters)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For U.S. apparel retailers, these are difficult times. Economic uncertainty has led to plunging consumer sentiment \u2014 the second-lowest on record . At the same time brands are fighting an uphill battle on costs as they consider how on-and-off tariffs for manufacturing leaders may raise apparel prices up by 58%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But amid talk of cutting costs, changing sourcing locations and scaling up investments in the U.S., there\u2019s a critical solution that risks being overlooked: investing more in sustainability, not less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/climate-energy\/sustainability-is-no-longer-fashion-apparel-industrys-future-depends-it-2025-05-12\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lewis Perkins | May 12, 2025 (featured on Reuters) For U.S. apparel retailers, these are difficult times. Economic uncertainty has led to plunging consumer sentiment \u2014 the second-lowest on record . At the same time brands are fighting an uphill battle on costs as they consider how on-and-off tariffs for manufacturing leaders may raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,49],"tags":[],"media-types":[51],"class_list":["post-28644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-category","category-thought-leadership-category","media-types-article"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28644"},{"taxonomy":"media-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-types?post=28644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}