"The British Fashion Council (BFC) is urging big-name companies to go beyond setting headline sustainability targets to cut emissions and waste in-house, and reduce the number of garments they are pro ...
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"Using ABB technology, Swedish company Renewcell opens the world’s first commercial-scale textile recycling plant, turning old clothes that would have gone to landfill into a new sustainable material ...
"This week is London fashion week, where hundreds of the world’s top designers will showcase their latest creations to the world. These designs will soon trickle down onto the high street. Once there, ...
"Sustainability technology platform Higg has partnered with traceability solutions providers TrusTrace, FibreTrace and Atma.io by Avery Dennison to launch a new programme that sets out to establish gr ...
"Denim is increasingly being held to circular standards as industry observers and consumers put pressure on brands and mills to reduce jeans’ weighty environmental footprint through reuse. In response ...
New signatories are: LPP SA Outerstuff LLC Prenatal Retail Group Y'Organic BV ...
"Áwet New York, which means “victory” in Eritrean, was founded by eponymous designer and former refugee Áwet Woldegebriel in 2020. The staple line aptly called “A Promise to New York” pays respect to ...
"Rens Original was founded in 2018 by two Vietnamese Sneakerheads Jesse Tran and Son Chu in the heart of Helsinki. The two co-founders created innovative ways to combat a sad fact, that the fashion in ...
"62% of Germans buy sustainable clothing at least sometimes. This was the result of a representative survey by the market research company Appinio, which surveyed 1,000 German consumers. Adidas, H&M a ...
"In Rohan, Roc'han Maille manufactures and sells wool and cotton clothing. The company seems to have found its cruising speed since its restart in 2010. [...] “Covid-19 has complicated the task for us ...
"Keqiao District in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, has the largest concentration of printing and dyeing factories in Asia; almost 200, the capacity of which accounts for nearly 40% of China's total production. T ...
"In Savar's Birulia, agitated workers set fire to tyres and blocked the road demanding two months of wage arrears. The workers, from Shams Washing, blocked the Savar-Birulia road around 12:30 pm on Mo ...
"We are proud to announce that we have signed the Dutch government's Green Deal Circular Denim. GARCIA is part of the J.O.G. group (consisting of Jeans Centre, GARCIA outlet and GARCIA) who will activ ...
"Since the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak began in China at the end of 2019, its impact has been felt across the global apparel and textile sector. Just Style's timeline shows how the pandemic is evo ...
"Machines can print textiles, cut fabric, and fold clothes. But it’s hard to train them to sew as fast and precisely as humans. Softwear Automation is a robotics company that wants to make T-shirts. “ ...
"Many of the businesses across Myanmar have stopped their operation temporarily or permanently following protests and internal political instability since February 1 takeover. Among them are CMP (cutt ...
"Taking historic and decisive action to help keep workers safe on the job and combat unfair pay practices, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed a package of 18 worker protection bills, including nation- ...
"What about nettles (Urtica Dioica) as a more sustainable alternative? It’s one of the oldest known fibre crops, does not require pesticides or herbicides to grow and it can be harvested up to 6 times ...
"Workers’ rights organisation the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) has called for Myanmar to be stripped of the preferential trading terms offered under the Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement. The Europe ...
"Last week Clean Clothes Campaign launched the updated version of their Fashion Checker tool — a campaign that seeks to shine a light on living wages and transparency in apparel supply chains. WikiRat ...