"Youth-focused fashion retailer PacSun has announced its participation in Cotton Incorporated’s Blue Jeans Go Green Denim Recycling Program with the launch of its PacDenim For a Better Tomorrow initia ...
2021
"From the boutiques of Christian Dior to royal wedding favours, jute is growing in popularity worldwide as demand for alternatives to plastic soars, with experts predicting the bag industry alone will ...
"Sreyra, Ponler, and Sreyven are three young garment workers in Cambodia. Day after day, they produce clothes for the most important global brands, until something exceptional disrupts their routine: ...
"The abrupt departure of the fast fashion e-tailer’s CEO alongside a warning that profits could fall sharply this year have raised the stakes for the company’s strategy update next month. Asos enjoyed ...
"H&M and Kering are among the fashion players that have recently launched pilot programmes to trace their supply chains using blockchain technology. Fashion has been eyeing blockchain to trace its not ...
"Transport movement on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway resumed as garment workers -- protesting closure of two RMG factories in Gazipur -- withdrew their blockade after four hours. Thousands of workers from ...
"With the world agog over synthetic fabrics, a chemist and her colleagues ‘smoothed out’ cotton – and saved an industry. [...] In 1958, Benerito became leader of the SRRC’s Cotton Chemical Reactions L ...
Made Andika Putra, founder of the D'Nara Natural Color Weaving Group, has been nurtured by Bank Indonesia program though various MSME projects and has built a successful business in producing naturall ...
"The Danish clothing giant Bestseller has handed out mass bonuses to all of it employees: the equivalent of an entire extra month’s salary along with their usual November pay slip. Why the early Chris ...
"While some activists opt for edgy banners at a runway show, others opt for “unboxing” videos of damaged goods in front of sustainable fashion TikTok’s unflinching gaze. Over the past few days, Coach ...
"AKM Salim Osman, president of Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA), has again been elected to the top post of the association unopposed." ...
"Formerly a designer for Alexander McQueen, after taking a break from the world of fashion to focus on her family, Katie Walsh founded The Re-Pete Project. Going against the grain of fast-fashion, her ...
"Welcome to our Q&A series where we talk to activists, designers, artists, and organisers about the big issues in sustainable fashion. We’re sitting down with MI Leggett, who gives new life to abandon ...
"Shoemaker Adidas is launching its Choose to Give Back program that lets people send used products — apparel, accessories and sports gear such as running shoes and soccer jerseys — from any brand back ...
"Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL) R|Elan has showcased its innovative collection from recycled PET at the FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW) Sustainable Fashion Day. In collaboration with designer duo, Da ...
"Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc around the world since late 2019, and the end is not yet in sight. We have seen a high number of fatalities and patients, overwhelmed public he ...
"EVRYTHNG, the Product Cloud managing digital identities for the world’s consumer products, today announced it has partnered with Compare Ethics, the verification platform for sustainable apparel and ...
"Whether yoga pants and Air Jordans appear under Christmas trees in the U.S. and Europe may come down to Vietnamese assembly line workers like Le Thi My. My is part of an exodus of factory employees w ...
"Denim manufacturer ISKO has launched R-Two 50+, the latest iteration of the firm’s fabric, utilising a minimum of 50 per cent recycled material. The company launched R-Two almost two years ago, citin ...
'Introduction Disasters like floods, droughts and landslides are a growing risk for millions of people in the global South. Yet in our globalising world, they are increasingly connected to processes o ...