The Kit • 11th January 2023

Can In-Person Shopping Actually be Enjoyable?

The first time I tried on a dress from Reformation, I felt like I’d struck gold. It was the Frasier cap-sleeve dress in black-and-white polka dot; it had buttons along the bodice, a flirty slit down the slide and it fit me like a glove. I wore it to dinner dates, family functions, work events—it replaced my standard jeans and button-up uniform for an entire season. And it wasn’t just me—the Frasier was a bestseller, and the brand was *everywhere* online. JLo and T Swift were wearing the pieces,

Forbes • 15th December 2022

Style Meets Sustainability In The Canada Goose X Reformation Collaboration

The struggle with the winter weather conundrum is a perennial challenge: Do you stay warm or look chic? Thanks to the very first collaboration between Canada Goose and Reformation, you no longer have to choose. “Canada Goose and Reformation each have a rich heritage and strong identity and right from the start we shared a vision that this project would equally reflect the DNA of both brands,” says Woody Blackford, Chief Product Officer of Canada Goose. “I think we are truly delivering on that pr

Harper's BAZAAR • 6th December 2022

Reformation and Canada Goose Are Collaborating for Après-Ski Season

Reformation has always filled very specific shopping niches. The jeans that feel like vintage but come in more than a single size. The celebrity-endorsed sundress for swanning into brunch with an ex. The just-revealing-enough gown to wear to six, seven, or eight weddings a year as a guest—plus one as a bridesmaid. What if it also filled the void for photogenic but actually warm après-ski outerwear, too?

This is a variation of a question the sustainability-driven, Los Angeles-based brand has con

Fast Company • 30th November 2022

Recycled cashmere and mushroom leather: How Reformation is doubling down on sustainability

The clothing company Reformation sells a lot of cashmere—as of now, 39 different styles of cashmere dresses, along with cashmere hats, scarves, skirts, sweatpants, sweatshirts, and more than a dozen variations of cashmere sweaters. While the material actually makes up only a tiny fraction of the company’s total fabric use, cashmere is responsible for nearly half of the brand’s carbon footprint. So Reformation has spent the last few years working to replace cashmere with a recycled version instea

Vogue • 17th November 2022

New York’s Fashion Act Gets a Makeover—Is It Enough?

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When the Fashion Act was introduced in New York in January, it was met with some support and a lot of criticism. Now, the coalition behind it has introduced amendments it says will “clarify and strengthen” the bill — enabling it to achieve, if passed, the emissions reductions and other supply chain improvements that its supporters had intended from the start.

After climate legislation pa

ELLE • 4th October 2022

Is Gen Z Killing Vintage Fashion?

Alicia Siemens shoves her arm back into the sagging sack of flannel and graphic T-shirts to pull a periwinkle something out of the stack. She holds it up against her chest to reveal a floral-print peasant dress circa 1970s. “There’s some staining,” she says, touching a yellowing lace collar, “But we should be able to do something with it.”

Siemens tosses the dress into a nearby shopping cart with about a dozen other items that she and co-worker Amanda Sanchez have set aside—a threadbare tee tha

Glossy • 22nd September 2022

Reformation focuses on London amid UK and European expansion

Reformation, the sustainability-focused clothing brand, is focused on growing its retail footprint. The brand currently has 35 stores across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. It’s now opening two new stores in south London, one in the highly anticipated Battersea Power Station in Battersea, alongside brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, and the other on Kings Road in Chelsea.

The brand opened its first store in London in 2019 in Notting Hill, and has since seen growing interest from local customers. As

Marie Claire UK • 22nd September 2022

Reformation's 90/10 collection features 90% recycled cashmere

A step in the right direction.

As a brand, Reformation has always kept sustainability at the forefront. After all, they are the label behind the now-infamous slogan, "being naked is the #1 most sustainable option. We're #2." Alongside tracking its clothing's environmental impact and offering its customers a transparent insight into its supply chain, Reformation is now tackling sustainability in the cashmere sector.

According to the brand, the global demand for cashmere has led to goats overgra

WWD • 21st September 2022

Reformation Backs New Cotton Coalition, Adore Me as B Corp, U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol News: Short Takes

U.S. Cotton Gains: Reformation is partnering with the White Buffalo Land Trust and more to promote organic cotton in the U.S. under a pre-competitive coalition called “C4.”

Standing for the California Cotton and Climate Coalition, C4’s premise is that by sourcing directly from farmers utilizing regenerative practices under the White Buffalo Land Trust, farmer livelihoods are more directly sustained on the rolling timeline of product releases planned for 2023. Producers for the cotton include th

Morning Brew • 15th September 2022

Reformation debuts fiber focus in digital answer to fashion week

That’s the tagline for the brand’s most recent marketing campaign, a “fake” fashion show that debuted online in the midst of New York Fashion Week after being shot without an audience across the country in Los Angeles.

Reformation—which has ambitious sustainability goals, including greenhouse-gas reduction targets and a transition to recycled fabrics—staged the “no show” to highlight sustainability issues in the fashion industry, which is estimated to be responsible for up to 10% of total globa

Vogue Business • 15th September 2022

Brands and farmers partner to make regenerative cotton more accessible

In the context of the current commodity system, C4 is revolutionary, says Fibershed founding director Rebecca Burgess. Fibershed is part of a group awarded $30 million by the US Department of Agriculture, announced yesterday, to expand climate-beneficial fibre production under the agency’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities programme. C4 will be the pilot for cotton and gives the work a major boost, says Burgess.

“These things may look nominal, but there's a lot of radical change happen

Sourcing Journal • 7th September 2022

Why Reformation’s Staging a ‘No-Show’ Fashion Show

Reformation kicked off the fall season with its first-ever “no-show” digital fashion event.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles brand debuted its autumn 2022 line at an online-only virtual showcase streamed on its e-commerce site. Models in dresses, sweaters, separates and outerwear walked the runway in an empty L.A. warehouse for an audience watching from their digital devices.

Reformation wanted to highlight new styles and material innovations without staging a full-scale runway show and the waste

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 13th September 2017

When to accept or reject a job at an institution with significant financial challenges (essay)

Should I consider a position with an institution facing “financial challenges”?

The question came up during a career planning conversation at a HERS Institute this summer. I couldn’t resist thinking, “What institution isn’t?” But I could see from the face of the questioner that her concerns were more serious.

But how serious? That’s the first question. First piece of advice: find a CFO or other financial expert whose judgement and discretion you trust, and ask for help in assessing whether to

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 11th April 2017

Advice for deciding when to participate in an executive job search (essay)

People frequently ask me whether they should respond to search inquiries. Since more often than not, the women who reach out have received negative messages about their potential ambitions, my role is to offer an alternative perspective: Why not go for it?

At a recent conference, however, I talked with three HERS Institute alumnae who faced more challenging decisions. Each person seemed to have strong motivation to get into the search but also faced potential serious downsides in being part of

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 7th February 2017

Advice for obtaining leadership positions in one's department (essay)

We often hear about faculty members who are reluctant to respond to requests to take leadership roles. But I’ve also been asked about the reverse: What do I do if I’d like to be more involved with my department or unit leadership but no one is approaching me?

I’m going to start with the assumption that the issue is not a concern on the part of your chair or dean that you have had opportunities to lead and not handled those situations in a way that contributed to the effort. If that describes yo

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 10th January 2017

How to engage more faculty in leadership roles (essay)

Talking with a new dean at the end of the year, I heard a question that chairs, deans and provosts often pose when they are confused and frustrated that faculty members they’ve asked to take on leadership roles in their departments or programs have turned them down: “Don’t they see how much their leadership matters?” In principle, yes. In practice, maybe not.

This dean was particularly stumped because -- to her and the chairs in her school -- it is clear that the school has many new initiatives

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 29th November 2016

Rethinking leadership approaches after the presidential election (essay)

On Friday, Nov. 11, three days after the election, HERS Institute participants -- women leaders in higher education from across the country -- gathered for our fall session on the Wellesley College campus. Many of us had hoped to be there celebrating the election of the first female president of the United States. Instead we were grappling with the fact that the new president was the male candidate who used bias against women -- and almost everyone else -- as a campaign tool.

We had all witness

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 20th September 2016

Changing times require response-enabled leadership (essay)

During the HERS Institutes, we focus much of our time on the skills that women in academe need to lead change projects. On a recent visit to the University of Alaska Anchorage, HERS alumnae there asked me to talk about the much broader topic of leading in changing times. When we're talking about leading in changing times, we're talking about leading while the ground continues to move. You have to be able to make new changes even as you're making the changes you planned.

In such circumstances, o

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 23rd August 2016

What Hillary Clinton's comment at the convention says about women's progress (essay)

The line I will most remember from Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech?

“After all, when there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit.”

I know it could be dismissed as a good headline and hardly historic rhetoric. Out of the context of the convention evening, it may not be profound. But I’d like to revisit it in the context of the convention’s closing event and my many years of work on “women’s issues.”

For four nights, convention watchers listened to many groups describing their goals and need

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • 22nd March 2016

The importance of exercising leadership at every level of college administration (essay)

Those of us who work in higher education cannot depend on the small group that we traditionally refer to as the leaders on each campus to serve our students and our wider communities. It is important to develop the capacity to exercise leadership from any position in a college or university. Improving our institutions requires that everyone, whether in senior posts or supporting roles, uses whatever assignments we have to expand the possibilities for innovation, inclusion and excellence.

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