"After eighteen months of predominantly virtual fashion shows, this month both New York and London fashion weeks made their partial return to real-life shows. I’ve worked at fashion week in the past, ...
2021
"We are delighted to announce the launch of our CO Labels and Components Hub in partnership with leading labels and packaging group, ITL Group. Featuring pioneering suppliers of innovative and sustain ...
"JAGGAER-TealBook 2021 Survey reveals that positive reputational impacts and supplier innovation are regarded as the main benefits. However, organizations lack data and visibility. Supplier diversity ...
"An interview with Esther Germans, SAC’s Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships, formerly of the United Nations International Labour Program. [...] Based on your fieldwork experience, wha ...
"Ukrainian unions are planning a protest action on 7 October, World Day for Decent Work, against the current labour law reform, which risks undermining workers’ and trade union rights. Among the propo ...
"A global commitment to work towards zero impact from fibre fragmentation from textiles to the natural environment by 2030. 10 years ago, the textiles sector began to recognise microfibre pollution as ...
"We have serious concerns about the safety and wellbeing of Daw Myo Aye (Myo Myo), leader of Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM), who has been detained since April by the military and held in Ins ...
"Resonance Companies today announced a key milestone in driving the return of domestic textile manufacturing — the opening of the company’s first stateside sew production facility in New York City. Th ...
"[Unreasonable Impact Americas Unreasonable Impact is an innovative multi-year partnership between Barclays and Unreasonable Group. The initiative represents a first of its kind international accelera ...
"Cambodian unions and labor groups call for the minimum wage to rise to $214, after GMAC proposed a reduction from $192 to $183 for 2022, and on the country's major buyers - @PUMA @Nike @hm @ZARA @Uni ...
"They assuage all of our guilt so we can just keep buying more stuff to fill them up with. [...] “Most citizens don’t think twice about [donating clothes] because the second-hand trade has been market ...
"Sustainability is here to stay, but just how far is the apparel supply chain willing to go make a sincere impact on the environment if it hampers the bottom line? While brands have pledged to shrink ...
"Indian textile manufacturer Welspun has vowed to support cotton farmers in its supply chain with access to finance and sustainable business training, as part of its WelKrishi programme. The company, ...
"Initial analysis of Better Buying Purchasing Practice Index (BBPPI) 2021 data indicates that adoption by buyers of standardized CSR reporting can save suppliers thousands of dollars and drive key inv ...
"At Walmart, it has always been our purpose to help people live better lives. Saving money has been core to that purpose since the beginning. But today, ‘live better’ means more. Customers have always ...
"The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) has today unveiled a new 2030 commitment and roadmap which sets out to align the industry, understand fragmentation and mitigate textile microfibre pollution. The rese ...
"Aja Barber is a writer, stylist and consultant whose work deals with the intersections of sustainability and the fashion landscape, building heavily on ideas behind privilege, wealth inequality, raci ...
"With the Eco-hanger, Mawa has created clothes hangers made of 100% eco-material based on natural and textile fibers - a novelty in the industry. The biomaterial "Mawa CellPlast" uses renewable raw ma ...
"Kontoor Brands-owned American denim brand Wrangler has teamed up with Infinited Fiber Company to introduce the brand’s most sustainable denim to-date, for fall 2021. [...] As part of the partnership, ...
"Frugi, the British ethical childrenswear brand, has partnered with the shared wardrobe for kids, thelittleloop, to offer a rental service for kids clothing. [...] Based in Cornwall and backed by spec ...