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The Vogue Business fashion leaders sustainability survey: Lacking the power to deliver?

An exclusive survey across 86 fashion, luxury and beauty brands’ chief sustainability officers builds a picture of small, often siloed sustainability teams, low down the hierarchy and with sometimes limited capacity to make changes needed to meet sustainability commitments.
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Photos: courtesy of Deciem, Reformation, Farfetch, Filippa K, Apparis, Depop, Neiman Marcus Group, Tapestry, Prada, Ebay, Eileen Fisher and The Estée Lauder Companies

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Switch to renewable energy by 2025. Cut virgin synthetics by 2030. Achieve net zero carbon by 2050. The fashion and beauty industries have countless sustainability commitments, but have the teams tasked with delivering them been set up for success?