Subscribe to The Frayed Edge by Sarah Kent, a weekly newsletter on how to build a cleaner, fairer fashion system. I’m heading to New York next week for Climate Week, a much nerdier and less glamorous experience than London and Milan promise to be. Fashion Needs a New Sustainability PlaybookFashion's sustainability efforts are flagging. But those heady, hopeful days in which big fashion brands jockeyed to be greenest of them all are long over. : Total material production reached a record-breaking in 2024, up nearly from a year earlier.