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Beyond the Front Row: What Fashion Month Reveals About Traceability

As Fashion Month makes its annual tour of New York, London, Milan and Paris, traceability is bringing greater visibility to the materials, partnerships and production decisions behind what we wear.

Every September, Fashion Month turns the industry’s attention to New York, London, Milan and Paris. Collections debut and brands compete to define trends for the season ahead, but the runway is also becoming a place to make the systems behind those collections more visible.

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At London Fashion Week last season, sustainable couture label TAMMAM presented the first garment made from U.K.-grown cotton, documenting the fiber’s journey from a vertical farm at the University of Nottingham through ginning, spinning, weaving and final construction in London. Designer Patrick McDowell also embedded a Digital Product Passport powered by Certilogo into every look in his Spring 2026 collection, allowing audiences to access information about materials, production and the journey through the supply chain.

These examples reflect a broader shift taking shape across Fashion Month. The British Fashion Council has begun adopting Copenhagen Fashion Week’s sustainability requirements for emerging designers, while material innovation, responsible sourcing and circular design are becoming progressively more visible alongside the collections themselves.

Together, these developments are bringing conversations that once happened primarily within sourcing and supply chain teams into a much more visible cultural setting. The shift extends beyond any one technology or regulation. Fashion is increasingly creating space for consumers to understand the materials, partnerships and production decisions behind what they wear.

Pulling back the curtain on the supply chain

Fashion has always been a reflection of cultural change. You can’t value what you can’t see. As new generations become more deliberate about how they spend and how they build identity, traceability creates an opportunity to pull back the curtain........

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