"At the start of the 2022 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector Clean Clothes Campaign welcomes the strong emphasis on purchasing practices in the official agenda. As a global ...
"From raw materials to manufacturing, labour exploitation and modern slavery are rife in global garment supply chains. Workers in the industry are vulnerable to forced labour, wage theft, hazardous co ...
"From raw materials to manufacturing, labour exploitation and modern slavery is rife in global garment supply chains. Workers in the industry are often vulnerable to forced labour, wage theft, hazardo ...
"The label aims to develop an open-source tool that will enable brands to measure performance on issues like gender equality, living wages and diversity and inclusion. After becoming luxury’s first ma ...
"One of the showpieces of the young company Lamoral on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus is a water-repellent coating that is applied to textiles. [...] Without using fluorine, which means that no PFAS ...
"Natalie Johnson is the CEO and founder of neuno, an online fashion house dedicated to making fashion digital through NFTs. In another role, she was the brand manager for a large Australian fashion ho ...
"The doctoral student in neuroscience only started sewing in 2018, beginning with small bags before moving on to clothes. Four years on, she estimates about 80 percent of clothes in her wardrobe are h ...
"Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck load of clothes is burnt or buried in landfill. Waste is prevalent in every part of the fashion industry, as a result of overproduction, over consumpti ...
"The company has said it is committed to furthering the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) field while driving forward sustainable fashion solutions." ...
"A new project aims to validate and scale technologies that can successfully transform agricultural waste into sustainable textile fibres. Led by global sustainable fashion innovation platform Fashion ...
"Shraddha Joshi-Barde retails apparel and home decor items in which the texture, shape and colour come from leaves, barks and twigs, without the use of chemical or synthetic dye. Shraddha Joshi-Barde ...
"The resistance of Uğur Tekstil workers resulted in a victory. 97 workers dismissed on November 18 for being unionized were reinstated." [Ed's note: see entry for Uğur Tekstil in the Open Apparel Regi ...
"At around 10 pm on February 22, a fire suddenly broke out in a factory of about 3,000 square meters of the company specializing in garment production.In just a few minutes, the fire quickly engulfed ...
"Bangladeshi suppliers need to operate with necessary transparency to enable their German sourcing companies to comply with a new supply chain law that obliges the latter to actively perform due dilig ...
"A delegation of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has visited the headquarters of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in Brussels on Tuesday. The d ...
"Respiratory disease and its complication are the cause of children deaths worldwide every year. Several epidemiological studies pointed out an association between quality of residential in inner city ...
"Jade, can you tell us more about your approach to sustainability within George at Asda? Sustainability has become business as usual for us at George, we set our ‘George for Good’ strategy back in 201 ...
"Migrant Forum in Asia releases the 3rd volume of its analysis report series, "Crying Out for Justice: Wage Theft Against Migrant Workers during COVID-19" This report is an analysis of the cases docum ...
"Apparel brands often talk about the “great” partnerships they have with their suppliers. But what really makes a “True Partner?” The term “partnership” is a long-established part of the apparel indus ...
"What might fashion look like when the only option left is making and selling fewer clothes? One brand is trying to get ahead of that question. At the individual brand level, sustainability is a key p ...
