"With negotiations finalized on Bangladesh’s new garment workplace safety agreement, retail giants are signing on. [...] H&M and Zara-owner Inditex are among the first signatories to the agreement. As ...
"Sustainability is the mega topic of this era. The problem: the so-called attitude-behavior gap. Many are interested in sustainable fashion, but this is not reflected in sales. We asked the Berlin age ...
"What Happened: Mytheresa is the latest luxury retailer pledging to go fur-free, starting in the spring/summer of 2022. The German retailer will begin the process of phasing out its surplus inventory ...
"Italy and Ethiopia last month signed an agreement to boost the skills of women entrepreneurs to join the leather industry. The agreement, signed between ambassador of Italy to Ethiopia Arturo Luzzi a ...
"At least 18 millers now fear huge losses following possible order cancellations as their buyers seek TCs as proof that the raw materials they collected from the spinning mills are made of organic cot ...
"As summer comes to an end and companies are mapping out their back-to-work plans, Prada Group issued a note to its Italian employees asking them to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or recovery f ...
"It’s been celebrated as a pathway to sustainability, but digital fashion doesn’t come without its own set of challenges. Digital fashion has been the Next Big Thing in fashion for a few years now. Fo ...
"The Chinese fast fashion giant’s new design competition seems aimed at shifting opinion on a company whose labour and environmental records have become frequent targets for regulators and consumers. ...
"When it comes to disrupting fashion’s waste cycle and shifting to more circular consumption methods, buying secondhand and renting have been heralded as the way forward. But what the industry’s susta ...
"Leather manufacturer Isa TanTec announced that its newest facility, TransAsia TanTec in Vietnam, has been certified as a gold-rated tannery by the Leather Working Group, an organization that promotes ...
"The Tiruppur Exporters’ Association will train 16,000 workers under the Samarth (Scheme For Capacity Building in Textile Sector) programme in the garment units in Tiruppur in two years. Raja Shanmugh ...
"Despite fashion’s rallying cries for inclusion, our understanding is pretty limited: We apply it to race, gender, sexuality, age, size, and religion, but rarely to one’s abilities. In my almost-decad ...
"So far, we have known that the BM Luggage Industry, where 17 workers were killed in a blaze on Friday morning, was unregistered, illegally located in a two-storey building in a residential area of Me ...
"Fires are a common occurrence in Karachi’s industrial areas. There are 24 fire stations in different parts of the city, but whenever a fire breaks out in a factory located in an industrial area, ther ...
"‘Fire tenders came two hours late’ “Yes, there were grills in the windows and the people upstairs could not jump out the windows because of the grills. But they were regular window grills to keep thi ...
"At least 16 factory workers and rescue workers lost their lives while three others sustained critical injuries on Friday when B.M Luggage Industry (factory) in Mehran Town Korangi caught fire. Police ...
"More than 50 firefighters from across Lancashire and Greater Manchester have been tackling a huge blaze in a footwear factory in Rawtenstall overnight. The blaze broke out at around 11:45pm at the pr ...
"Seventy-nine per cent of businesses could not avail the stimulus package announced by the government to fight against the Covid fallout, according to a survey report published on Saturday. The fifth ...
"On June 11 earlier this year, the German Parliament, the Bundestag, passed a law called "Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains". This law obliges business organisations to fulfil their due ...
"The big apparel brands have consolidated their sourcing strategy due to the Covid-19 pandemic, concentrating more on the large suppliers, according to two latest reports. The reports as well as local ...
