Facing the impacts of fast fashion and flexible production, traditional textile manufacturers in Changshu chose to upgrade themselves via intelligent transition, digitalization, e-commerce and stronger efforts in branding, so as to maintain their advantages in the market.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly important tool in addressing the global issue of textile waste and promoting a circular economy.
Bill McGraith, formerly of PVH Corp, an apparel manufacturer that own brands such as Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, gives his take on the various supply chain issues that have traditionally pervaded in the sector and how digital technology can help.
The eighth edition of the Fashion Transparency Index ranks 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers based on their public disclosure of human rights and environmental policies, practices, and impacts, across their operations and supply chains.
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the International Apparel Federation (IAF), and 128 additional organizations from the globe, delivered a letter to supranational, national, and local authorities around the world to modernize domestic textile, garment, footwear, and related accessories labeling requirements and legally allow more sustainable and economic, digital labels for required labeling information.
Global fashion brands touting sustainability claims continue to buy from their contract factories in Cambodia that burn illegally logged wood in their boilers.
The Global Fashion Summit 2023 focused on the need for tangible actions to tackle environmental challenges in the fashion industry.
Sad news for those backing a more sustainable fashion industry: Chloé has confirmed that Gabriela Hearst is leaving the French fashion house following her spring 2024 show in September.
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) opened the doors to Planet Textiles at the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition center from June 12 - 13, welcoming attendees to the 2023 edition of the event. Under the theme, Future-Proofing Global Supply Chains, the event took place over two days and brought together over 200 delegates to network with industry peers and share learnings and best practices on how collective action can help accelerate industry transformation and future-proof global supply chains.
Geospatial organisation and location firm Ordnance Survey (OS) is working with several partners to establish the Supply Chain Data Partnership (SCDP) with an aim to tackle supply chain issues and build a more sustainable global economy.
Danish companies Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) have submitted a $1.3 billion investment proposal to the government of Bangladesh to produce 500 megawatts of offshore wind energy.
Better Cotton works extensively in Pakistan. A new pilot scheme aims to improve mapping data and thereby rationalise country programming. An interview with Muhammad Qadeer ul Hussnain, Digital Agriculture Manager at Better Cotton.
Many textile enterprises are moving toward green production processes due to increasing consumer awareness in key export markets. In this article, we will run through how firms are adapting to this trend.
Sonovia’s ultrasonic technology drastically reduces environmental pollution in the denim industry, according to a comparative study released earlier this months.
Paying more for clothes does not necessarily mean they will last longer, according to new research carried out by the School of Design.
A new Playbook by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) talks directly with fashion’s communicators. Written for marketers, brand managers, imagemakers, storytellers, media, influencers and beyond, ‘The Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook’ from UNEP and UN Climate Change, provides a much needed framework when policies around how to communicate environmental claims increasingly come into force.
Education and training is essential in equipping the supply chain with the tools to digitise and will aid in creating a talent pool of digital advocates.
Between 2021 and 2023, brands participating in The Jeans Redesign have brought 1.5 million pairs of redesigned jeans to the market that are durable, recyclable, traceable and made using safe materials and processes - that’s more than three times as many as in 2021.
For many years, Banolata Refractory, a brick manufacturer in northern Bangladesh, had wanted to start making environmentally-friendly bricks and cut its carbon emissions, but it lacked the funding to build a greener and cleaner kiln.
Take-back schemes are presented as a convenient option for consumers to return their unwanted clothes directly to fast-fashion brands and retailers, who promise to give them a second life, either by donating to those in need or recycling into new clothing. After 11 months of tracking, the outcomes of the tracked items expose the discrep- ancy between brands’ claims and the actual fate of the collected clothing.
