News

2021

New York Times

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NSI Director, Maxine Bedat speaks to the New York Times about the current challenge of supply chain traceability.

2021

Deutsche Welle

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NSI was featured in DW’s video series digging into the ultra disposable fashion company Shein.

2021

Financial Times

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The Financial Times includes NSI Director’s book UNRAVELED as a best book of the year for Style.

2021

Financial Times

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The Financial Times includes NSI Director’s book UNRAVELED as a best book of the year for Business.

2021

Grist

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NSI helps Grist wade through fashion greenwashing for their holiday gift guide.

2021

Financial Times

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FT How to Spend It, explores whether jeans can ever be “eco”. NSI’s director, weighs in.

2021

Super Creativity Podcast

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Maxine Bedat is a guest on James Taylor’s podcast to speak about the fashion industry’s impact on climate change.

2021

Sourcing Journal

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NSI speaks to the leading industry journal about the potential greenwashing of H&M’s “Green Machine”.

2021

Vogue Business

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“China and India did not upgrade their commitments at COP26, and yet these are the key sourcing countries for the [fashion] industry. This means that the fashion industry has the power and potential to step up and make really meaningful reductions in these countries,” says Maxine Bédat, founder of the New Standard Institute, in this piece on the takeaways from COP26.

2021

Bel Jacobs

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“Today, our entire media landscape is centered on celebrities, who then appear in fashion advertising. And when you see celebrities, on Instagram, on red carpets, as guests on shows, they’re always wearing something new - because they are paid to do so. But the business model trickles down.” NSI Director speaks to Bel Jacobs about the powerful nexus between social media algorithms, fashion industry advertising, and the influencer economy.

2021

Vogue

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NSI Director speaks to Vogue about the benefits and limits of voluntary Science Based Targets.

2021

New York Times

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Vanessa Friedman seeks out NSI’s advice on how to avoid toxic chemicals in clothing.

2021

The Guardian

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The Guardian asks NSI, “Are clothes made from recycled materials really more sustainable?

2021

Good On You

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This feature explores the fashion industry’s inaction on the climate emergency.

2021

Vogue

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Vogue looks at the rise of B Corp in the fashion industry. NSI weighs in on the benefits and limitations and the need for regulation.

2021

Fast Company

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NSI Director speaks to Fast Company about the rise of disposable fashion company, Shein.

2021

Back Row

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Amy Odell in her newsletter “Back Row” speaks to NSI about the limits of “sustainable fashion”.

2021

Glamour (UK)

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Glamour UK explores what happens to the clothes charity shops can’t sell. NSI weighs in.

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New York Times

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NSI Director was asked to weigh in on the cotton tote crisis.

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Financial Times

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NSI Director’s book, Unraveled: The Life and Death of Garment is longlisted for the Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2021.

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2021

Wallpaper

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For Wallpaper’s Thinker’s series, NSI Director was in conversation with Christian Smith of Fair Wear Foundation responding to the question “What does fashion still need to fix?”

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2021

GreenBiz

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NSI is interviewed for GreenBiz about its work using data to turn industry into a force for good.

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2021

Financial Times

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NSI Director’s book, Unraveled was selected as a Book of the Week by the FT.

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2021

Bloomberg

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Bloomberg speaks to NSI about textile recycling technologies. “What we really need to see from these companies is reporting,” said Maxine Bédat.

2021

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Refinery29

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Refinery29 asks NSI , “Can Influencer Culture & Conscious Consumption Coexist?”

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2021

Elle

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Maxine Bédat Unravels the Lies of Greenwashing in this Elle feature.

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2021

Goop

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Goop featured an excerpt of NSI Director’s book, Unraveled.

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Fashionista

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Fashionista digs into Unraveled, picking up the theme of Amazon warehouses as explored in the book.

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2021

Business of Fashion

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NSI Director writes an op-ed in BoF, “Only Government Can Make Fashion Sustainable.”

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2021

NYTimes

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Vanessa Friedman features Unraveled and points out that “sustainable” fashion is now used to push further sales.

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2021

Shondaland

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Shonadland interviews NSI Director about her book, Unraveled.

2021

Fast Company

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Fast Company features an excerpt of Unraveled.

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2021

The New Yorker

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Bill McKibben asks NSI, “What can you learn about how our world is organized by following a pair of jeans through its travels to your closet?”

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2021

Vogue

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NSI Founder, Maxine Bédat pens an op-ed for Vogue on the urgent need for the fashion industry to take action to address their negative impacts now.

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2021

The Zoe Report

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“We have this idea that [what you donate] goes off and it finds this beautiful better home and we can feel good about it because we’re giving back, we’re clearing up space in our own lives which is de-stressing,” says Maxine Bédat, NSI Director speaking to The Zoe Report. “The reality is not exactly that.”

2021

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Shondaland

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Vogue speaks to NSI where they ask, “Why was sustainability still not a priority during fashion month?”

2021

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The Nation

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“Fashion is a resource intensive process,” says NSI Director Bédat in this piece on the trend of sustainable fashion. “To make that process exist within planetary bounds and where workers are not exploited along the way is going to take some rule-setting.”

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2021

Fast Company

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“It’s really hard to read the research coming in about the environmental and social crises that the industry is wrapped up in and to be greeted by these incremental improvements,” says Maxine Bedat, NSI Director in this piece on Uniqlo’s new reduced water technology.

2021

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Vogue Business

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NSI is quoted in this Vogue Business piece about Amazon’s promise of more climate friendly products.

2021

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Business of Fashion

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BoF speaks to NSI in their article, “Scaling Up or Selling Out: How Can Sustainable Labels Credibly Collaborate with Big Brands”

2021

Vogue

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Vogue speaks to NSI where they ask, “Why was sustainability still not a priority during fashion month?”

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2021

Business of Fashion

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BoF speaks to NSI about the fashion industry’s interest in ESG and “green” bonds.

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2021

Business of Fashion

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NSI speaks to BoF about how fashion companies can effectively draw down carbon use in their supply chains.

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2021

Fast Company

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Fast Company asks NSI if H&M can undo the environmental devastation its business model has caused. “When you actually look at the numbers, the answer is a resounding ‘no.’”

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2021

Vogue

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While we’ve seen a flurry of environmental targets of late, brands now need to urgently follow through on these commitments to cut carbon emissions. “There's a real focus this year on what those companies are actually doing,” Maxine Bédat, executive director at the New Standard Institute think-tank, tells Vogue.

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2020

Firewall

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NSI Director and Firewall host, Bradley Tusk, discuss the ethical conundrum of fast fashion, the knock-on effects of Marie Kondo's decluttering movement, and whether COVID has put a permanent dent in our shopaholic ways.

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2020

Grist

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We make 2021 sustainability predictions for Grist.

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Vice

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We discuss the down side of drop culture.

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Vogue Business

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Vogue Business asks NSI to weigh in on what sustainable fashion meant in 2020 and what we can expect for 2021.

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2020

Bigger Than Us

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NSI Director is interviewed on an episode of the BTU podcast.

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Vogue Business

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Can Emerging Fashion Brands Scale Sustainable Initiatives? NSI weighs in.

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Patagonia

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Can We Stop Greenwashing? Elizabeth Cline asks for Patagonia.

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2020

Goop

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Goop highlighted NSI’s Master Class in the Goop 15.

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2020

Harper’s Bazaar

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Harper’s speaks with NSI for their piece, “Rethinking Sustainability.”

2020

Vogue

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Vogue speaks to NSI about the benefits and potential pitfalls of the latest fashion trend: recycling.

2020

The Financial Times

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The FT interviews NSI for their piece questioning the greenwashing plaguing the fashion industry.

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2020

WWD

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WWD’s Executive Editor, Bridget Foley profiled NSI.

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Fortune

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NSI helps Fortune navigate the big myths of “sustainable fashion”.

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2020

Business of Fashion

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Business of Fashion highlights the problem of missing data and centers NSI’s work in the coverage.

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2020

Fashionista

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Fashionista highlighted NSI’s report on the Roadmap to the Rebuild.

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2020

Complex

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Complex shares the launch of NSI’s Roadmap to the Rebuild.

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2020

Doré

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In the early days of Covid, NSI Director spoke to Doré about the need for activism.

2020

Vogue

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Vogue Feature Joining voices with Whitney McGuire and Dominique Drakeford of Sustainable Brooklyn and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, NSI’s Director spoke with Vogue about the need for accountability and not just empty gestures when it comes to sustainability.

2020

Fast Company

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“Many of us are questioning what is really essential and what is not. We’re questioning how much of these trends we really want to participate in; we’re asking ourselves what is it that clothes really do for us. This mentality could stick and lead to a much healthier industry in the future.” NSI is quoted in Fast Company.

2020

At a Distance

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NSI Director was interviewed on the podcast At A Distance about the impact of Covid-19 on how we think about fashion and sustainability, the need to no longer consider ourselves “consumers,” and why building a better world can begin in our closets.

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2020

Highsnobiety

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Highsnobiety included NSI on a panel of leaders in the industry, about our forecast for the future of fashion and what, if anything, will change in the aftermath of Covid-19 and the global protests in support of Black Lives Matter.

2020

The Green Dreamer

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In this podcast, NSI Director sheds light on the work NSI is doing to set a new standard for the fashion industry, especially when words such as sustainable and eco-friendly are not standardized and often are used as a greenwashing tool; why recycled microplastic fibers used in so-called ‘eco’ athletic wear or swimwear, might not be as eco-friendly as it's made out to be; and more.

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2020

Shondaland

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Shondaland speaks to NSI about how to break up with fast fashion.

2020

Complex

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NSI spoke to Complex to help their readers become more knowledgeable about the impact of the fashion industry and their role in it.

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2020

The Zoe Report

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The Zoe Report asked NSI to explain the nuts and bolts of the social and environmental impacts of the fashion industry and what readers can do to be part of the solution.

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2020

Vogue

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Vogue speaks to NSI about the connection between the world’s response to the coronavirus and the implications it has for mobilization to solve the climate crisis.

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2020

Common Objective

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NSI clarifies the questionable sustainability claims of recycled polyester.

2020

Vogue Business

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Vogue Business speaks to NSI Director, Maxine Bedat, on how to assess the sustainability credentials of “sustainable” capsule collections.

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2020

People

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NSI partnered with actress Elizabeth Banks and costume designer Arianne Phillips to bring re-wear to the Oscar’s red carpet.

2020

VOX

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Vox spoke with NSI’s Director on the need for reliable data in the fashion space and what NSI is doing to address this issue.

2020

Harper’s Bazaar

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NSI has partnered with Harper’s Bazaar to create “Sustainable Style”, a series devoted to stories focused on the fashion and beauty industry’s effects on the environment.

2020

CNN

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CNN spoke to NSI about the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

2020

Business of Fashion

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Business of Fashion highlighted NSI as a leader in working to make sustainability sexy.

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2020

Fast Company

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Concerned about the lack of alignment between sustainability claims around recycle polyester clothing and the data, NSI worked with Fast Company to bring the issue to light in their publication and speaking at their Innovation Festival.

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2020

Business of Fashion

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“Consumers are becoming more aware of the fact that radical transparency as a marketing tool is not [the same as] radical transparency on what an ethical and sustainablecompany is.” NSI's director on the current state of transparency in @bof.

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2019

NPR’s Here and Now

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NSI was interviewed on NPR’s Here and Now on the human toll of the fashion industry.

2019

Goop

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Goop Editor and NSI Advisory Council Member Andrea Arria-Devoe profiled NSI.

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Fashionista

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Fashionista spoke with NSI on whether the fashion industry needs more sustainable fashion brands.

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2019

Dore

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NSI contributed to the media platform Doré to discuss why we can’t just shop our way into sustainability and the freedom gained from a less consumerist lifestyle.

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2019

Purple Fashion Magazine

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NSI contributed to Purple Fashion Magazine’s cosmos edition.

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Martha Stewart

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Martha Stewart profiled NSI, highlighting our campaign to get fashion companies to disclose their environmental and social footprint.

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2019

NPR Science Friday

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NSI’s Maxine Bedat and Dr. Linda Greer along with journalist Marc Bain, spoke with NPR Science Friday’s Ira Flatow on how the fashion industry is responding to the climate crisis.

2019

NSI Launch

Cocktails and dinner with Maxine Bédat.

2019

Dare I Say

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HB’s Features Director Olivia Flemming has a frank talk with NSI founder Maxine Bédat, and environmental toxicologist Linda Greer to discuss the ugly truths behind our beautiful industry.

2019

Vogue

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Can NSI put an end to fake news about sustainable fashion?

2019

Harper’s Bazaar

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Harper’s Bazaar asked NSI to asses the practices of 13 fashion brand that claim to be sustainable.

2019

WWD

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Bridget Foley’s talks views on Sustainability with NSI founder Maxine Bédat.

2019

BoF

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NSI was featured in this Business of Fashion piece on the need for clear data in the fashion industry.

2019

NSI at Spring Palace

Co-hosts Emily Deschanel, Penny Lovell, Carineh Martin, Allison Oleskey, and Tara Swennen joined fellow celebrities, stylists and industry insiders at Spring Place in Los Angeles to learn about the fashion industry’s impacts and what can be done to drive meaningfully positive change.

2018

CBS This Morning

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NSI was asked to serve as the expert in this CBS This Morning segment on what viewers can do to curb the carbon footprint of fashion industry. The main takeaway - no matter where you are buying, make sure you’re being sold a quality garment.

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2018

Change Fashion

Hosted at Donna Karan’s Urban Zen and in partnership with the Chapman Perelman Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Soze Agency, NSI provided all of the research for this groundbreaking exhibition on the impact of the fashion industry.

2018

Model Citizens

Hosted at the stunning home of model, advocate and NSI Advisory Council member, Angela Lindvall, NSI brought together leaders in the Los Angeles community to share learnings and collaborate on helpful ways to drive positive change within the industry.

2018

CFDA + NYU + UN

In partnership with CFDA, NYU and UN Global Compact, NSI brought together fashion industry players to share the impacts of the industry and to build partnership to develop solutions.