Circular economy in the Italian fashion sector – a new, post-pandemic state of the art

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the development of circular economy in the Italian Fashion-Luxury industry. The research takes into consideration 4 different tiers of the fashion supply chain, namely textile companies, brand owners, retailers and final consumers. Albeit being an exploratory research, the extensive coverage of the supply chain allows to check the consistency of the approaches used upstream with the requests coming from the market, as well as assessing the alignment in terms of maturity at the various tiers of the Supply Chain.