Business is Also Ethics

What connects the Copenhagen Fashion Summit and the Amarnath Yatra, a pilgrimage in northern India? Garment factory owners navigating business pressures, workers’ rights, and an apparel industry that often pits the business pressures against labor rights. Starting May 15, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit will bring together CEOs of global apparel companies, suppliers, designers, sustainability gurus, journalists and others to exchange ideas and innovations on making fashion environmentally-conscious and respectful of labor rights. The fragility of those grand ideas were exposed last year, when I chatted…

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