"Lined up on stools outside a well-known clothes store in south London, around 20 needle-wielding stitchers took the fight against “fast fashion” to the streets, showing shoppers how to revive shabby ...
2021
"Harris Tweed Hebrides, the UK's main producer of Harris Tweed, has introduced FibreTrace traceability technology to connect Scottish wool growers to the end consumer, embracing full supply chain tran ...
"Union leaders fear another 200,000 garment workers in Myanmar could lose their jobs by the end of the year due to factory closures caused by both the political crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nay L ...
" A fire broke out in the Jinvani Textile located in Mohalla Chowk market in Meerut on Friday morning. People somehow managed to control the fire. Bed sheets worth lakhs of rupees were burnt to ashes ...
"Bail plea has been filed by the suspects in district and sessions court in Korangi factory fire case that claimed 16 lives in the month of August. Factory owner, Hassan Ali Mehta, manager, Imran Zaid ...
"On the night of September 5, the suspects burgled a leather garment factory in Sector 9. Thakur Singh, the factory’s administrative executive, filed a complaint at Sector 20 police station. [...] “Th ...
"Inside a cramped, dingy workshop, workers hunch over sewing machines under the greenish glow of fluorescent strip lights. It’s past 9 p.m., and the temperature inside the room is sweltering, but the ...
"Jessica Chang Named 2021 Winner of World’s Largest Sustainable Fashion Design Competition. Chang Will Design a Sustainable Capsule Collection with Timberland Available for Purchase Spring 2023. Emerg ...
"Five years ago, the textile giant Welspun found itself mired in a scandal that hinged on a single word: “Egyptian”. At the time, Welspun was manufacturing more than 45m metres of cotton sheets every ...
"In the last edition of Cradle we gave you the Eco-Age perspective on an academic paper that gave insight into rental versus reuse. For this issue we’ve taken a look at Synthetics Anonymous; a report ...
"Last month the publication of the devastating sixth assessment from the intergovernmental panel on climate change (the IPCC) delivered a body blow to everyone who assumed were ‘doing their bit’, or o ...
"A fire broke out due to a short circuit in an embroidery factory in Chandalbhata's Transport Nagar at around 6:00 am on Saturday. The fire engulfed the entire factory. Nearby people immediately infor ...
"A helpline has been launched to provide assistance to informal sector workers in distress. It promises to provide the first level of counselling/intervention over the phone to workers in times of cri ...
"There was a time when “vegan fashion” was an oxymoron. Catwalks were overflowing with fur and exotic skins, faux leather was shiny, plasticky and cheap, and designers would laugh at the idea of sendi ...
"A new European Commission-funded project has been launched to explore solutions for "fair and effective market surveillance" on the chemicals in textile products imported from outside the single mark ...
"Three days after Dong Ha city implemented Directive 16, businesses in Nam Dong Ha Industrial Park are still struggling to attract workers to the factory. Jinquan Vietnam Travelling Goods has more tha ...
"The pandemic has boosted the supply and demand for local products and the clothing industry is no exception. However, the shortage of skilled labor and the competition with suppliers from China are m ...
"According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, China recycled 4 million tons of waste textiles in 2019. [...] Qu Chengfeng, who has been recycling used clothes for 10 years, was one of the first me ...
"The gas crisis in Savar and Ashulia industrial areas has reached a critical stage. Production in most garment factories is being severely disrupted due to low gas pressure. As a result, garment facto ...
"As Director of Primark Cares, Lynne Walker is responsible for transforming Primark Cares from a label to a value, leading a dedicated team and working closely with multiple others across the business ...