Invisible Dynamics

An organisation can know an extraordinary amount about the quality of its products while knowing much less about the conditions in which they are made. Loro Piana offers a concrete starting point for examining this gap. At its 2025 exhibition in Shanghai, the maison presented a space dedicated to quality control, with Baby Cashmere shown under a microscope magnifying the fibre 35,000 times. It was a striking representation of the attention given to the material. In July 2025,

At New York Fashion Week, protests against wool reopened a question many in the industry thought belonged to a different category from fur and leather: Should fashion stop using wool? At first, the ethical argument appears straightforward. Wool is animal-derived; therefore, removing it should reduce animal exploitation. But systems rarely respond in straight lines. Wool represents only a small part of fashion’s overall fibre mix, yet it is renewable, biodegradable, durable an