Luxury Lexicon 14 terms
Sustainability terms
How sourcing, product design and retail teams describe materials, use and environmental claims.
A
- After-sales service
- Support after a purchase, such as care advice, repairs, alterations and warranty handling.
B
- Biodegradable
- Capable of being broken down by microorganisms under particular environmental conditions.
C
- Circular fashion
- An approach that aims to keep garments and materials in use through durable design, repair, reuse and recycling.
- CSR
- Corporate social responsibility: how an organisation addresses its effects on people, society and the environment.
D
- Deadstock
- Deadstock is inventory that remains unsold or material left unused from an earlier production run.
E
- Eco-friendly
- A broad claim that a product or activity causes less environmental harm.
- Ethical fashion
- An approach to clothing that considers how it is made and its effects on workers, communities and other living things.
O
- Organic cotton
- Cotton grown under organic agricultural standards.
P
- Procurement
- Obtaining goods or services through supplier selection, purchasing and related controls.
S
- Supply chain
- The connected activities that source materials, make products and move them to customers.
- Sustainable fashion
- An approach to reducing environmental and social harm across the making, use and disposal of clothing.
T
- Traceability
- The ability to follow a product, material or component through recorded stages of its supply chain.
U
- Upcycling
- Using existing or discarded products and materials to make something with added value.
V
- Viscose
- Viscose is a manufactured fibre made by regenerating cellulose through the viscose process.