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The Commitment Issue

The Fashionable Lampoon International

clarity, brilliance and transparency • October 2020 Tiffany & Co. is announcing the entire processing path of its recently sourced and individually registered diamonds starting from 0.18 carats

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Ibrahim Kamara / Willy Ndatira

Johnson Tsang

Paolo Bottarelli

Giovanni Vetere

Alexander James

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commitment • circularity starts here; different types of materials should not be mixed. Plastic is only plastic and organic material is only organic. If the paper inside a magazine is not coated but the cover is, the issue persists. Biscuit packages tend to be produced in plasticized paper when it would be fine to have them in either plastic or paper and not both combined

collecting data from different sources to disclose the value of a brand • a conversation with Cynthia Figge, founder of CSRHub. Customers will buy from brands that can prove their commitment to the environment and their civic duty

Images Portfolio by Sinéad O’Dwyer

the beauty industry – a challenge of transparency and biodiversity • Andrea d’Avack, President of Fondation Chanel Global Head of Corporate Responsibility Dr. Nicola Fuzzati, Ingredients Innovation and Development Director for Chanel Research

yarn made from discarded materials – fishing nets, fabric scraps, carpets • Prada’s Re-Nylon is fabricated using industrial waste retrieved from oceans, watercourses and landfill sites – the resulting fabric can be regenerated ad infinitum

Giorgio Armani, the ratio of traceability — how serious must we be? • the Italian Master stands for worldwide causes: packaging is to be let go, water to be saved and shared a conversation with Nigel Salter

trees to compensate for carbon emissions – a step forward, to be honest • a call to action was raised by Gucci – given the positive promotion, what can the next step for the industry be?

pictorial landscapes • model Micah Walsh almost pictorial landscapes and the human body blending into them. Parallels and resemblances between respective patterns and shapes – a metaphor for an almost-forgotten mutual belonging

Canali – 85th anniversary of a family commitment to the land, to the people • Stefano Canali on the history of the family, the factory and the years he spent there as a child, as well as the priority he was taught to always give to the human handmade

images portfolio by Brooks Salzwedel

Maria Grazia Chiuri – young girls and their master ladies • Dior in Apulia, Southern Italy. Being sustainable also means protecting artisans from dissolving into the contemporary rush – young girls ready to save the legacy of textile masters

aesthetics and literature: from a roof garden to a vertical forest • the myth of Babylon, and a Parisian apartment of Carlos de Beistegui designed by Le Corbusier

human density is a matter of energy • people are leaving cities and heading home to the countryside – but the hyperdensity of urban spaces offers an opportunity

unseen data and human connections – it’s also about how a tree feels • Dutch eco-awareness artist Thijs Biersteker’s recent work illustrates the complexity of plant communication Finnish futurologist and author Risto Linturi explores the promises and pitfalls of virtual reality

Petros Efstathiadis • at some point felt it like this is the end of the history but not politically with an idea prevailing upon another, just an end with nothing heroic and no explanation

the Tyre Collective – combating the microplastic pollutant that we are forgetting • the UK produces 68,000 tons of tyre-wear fragments every year, and up to...