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Joëlle Vanhamme

Professeur de marketing EDHEC Business School
Joëlle Vanhamme

Joëlle Vanhamme is Professeur de marketing at EDHEC Business School.

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Recycling Crisis / Production Issues Analysis
Each new collection triggers the emissions-heavy stages of yarn spinning, fabric knitting and chemical dyeing, and rapid style turnover multiplies those stages faster than material efficiency can absorb.

Recycling Cannot Repair What the Production Phase Has Already Locked In

  • Subir Ghosh

2 September 2026
Chemical Usage / Wardrobe Issues Commentary
The environmental cost of a garment begins long before purchase and continues long after it leaves the wardrobe, shaped invisibly by chemistry the wearer never sees.

Behind the Label Lies a Longer and Stranger Chemical Story

  • Jane Wood
  • Charlotte Barras
  • Elena Probert

26 August 2026
 
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Leader Speak / India Intimatewear Interview
Machinery can be bought by anyone, so advantage settles instead on how well a maker understands yarn behaviour through knitting, dyeing and finishing into the final garment.

How Changing Indian Bodies and Tastes Are Redrawing Intimatewear Manufacturing

  • Subir Ghosh

22 September 2026
Rethinking Circularity / Scaling Up Analysis
The store, the sales advisor and the after-sales experience convert technical detail into information that shapes how a client actually cares for and keeps a product.

Fashion Does Not Lack Circular Solutions, It Lacks Connections Between Them

  • Iuliia Moiseienko

9 September 2026
 
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Tariff Impact / Fast Fashion Commentary
Much of Shein’s production takes place in the so-called “Shein village” in Guangzhou, China, where workers often sew for 12–14 hours a day under poor conditions to keep pace with the demand for new items.

Shein, Temu and the Tariff Fallout: Why Australia Became Fast Fashion's New Frontier

  • Mona Mashhadi Rajabi
  • Lisa Lake
  • Martina Linnenluecke
  • Yun Shen

12 June 2025
Unsold Clothes / EU Rules Report
The shift from disposal to disclosure reframes surplus inventory as a governance question rather than a logistical afterthought within European fashion markets.

EU Moves to End Routine Disposal of Excess Apparel Stock; New Rules Redefine Fashion Surplus

  • Special Correspondent

13 February 2026