"Illicit trade fuels modern slavery. Human trafficking is a highly lucrative line of business for the global criminal network that also engages in the trade of drugs, wildlife, counterfeit products, e ...
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"Swedish-German fashion brand Marc O'Polo has teamed up with blockchain specialist Retraced to gain greater insight into its supply chain." ...
"Amazon opens its first brick-and-mortar fashion store today at The Americana at Brand, a shopping complex in Glendale, California. Announced earlier this year, the physical retail experience is descr ...
"About this report Digitalisation is changing the balance of power in fashion capitalism. In Switzerland, three out of ten three out of ten items of clothing are bought on the internet. The big online ...
"Digitization is changing the balance of power in fashion capitalism. In Switzerland, three out of ten items of clothing are already bought online. The large online retailers and trading platforms in ...
"The non-governmental organization Public Eye has analyzed the most important online players with a view to supply chain transparency, wage policies in the production countries, working conditions in ...
"Verticals like the H&M Group or Primark have been doing it for a long time, now smaller fashion retailers can do it too. Fashion retailer Peter Heckmann from Haltern founded the start-up Help & Be Ha ...
"In a world where planned obsolescence is still part of some marketing plans, luxury denim brand G-Star RAW has released a new campaign with an unconventional message: a pair of G-Star jeans should be ...
"Turkey produces millions of jeans for global fashion brands. Subcontractors often do the dirty work and let textile workers toil with toxic chemicals and under catastrophic conditions. Former textile ...
"Many global fashion brands, including Zara, have jeans produced in Turkey. In the documentary "Toxic Jeans - The Dark Side of the Turkish Textile Industry", Arte provides information on precarious wo ...
"Buy now, pay later services like Klarna have made shopping easier than ever – but is that a good thing? Debt has never looked so good. A quick scroll through the #Klarna tag on TikTok and you’ll see ...
"With a new type of weaving machine, C. Cramer can flexibly process highly sensitive carbon fibers into high-tech textiles and at the same time reduce waste and energy consumption." ...
"The Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) has reported that its Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) initiative reached record levels of supply and demand last year, with a total of 600 million CmiA-labelled textil ...
"Sam Bennett started 2020 with a resolution: The creative would no longer buy new things, unless there was a real necessity for the item or if it was unavailable secondhand. A few months later, the pa ...
"The European Commission recently issued a package of proposals aimed at making fashion products within the EU internal market more environmentally friendly. This blog post looks at why the European C ...
"Vegan leather = sustainable leather. Right? Well, not exactly. The term ‘vegan’ can be misleading. Better for animals…absolutely. But better for people and the environment? Unfortunately, it’s not th ...
"Most consumers wish to act sustainably when making purchasing decisions but their willingness to do so is being weakened by the cost of living crisis, according to a new survey." ...
"Can politics make fast fashion obsolete? That was the theme of a seminar in Oslo recently. With the EU's textile strategy in mind, which has promoted expanded producer responsibility based on a form ...
"In our latest, exclusive report TheIndustry.fashion, in partnership with Bleckmann, has shone a spotlight on some of the brands we believe are paving the way for a new tech-led, sustainably driven fa ...
"NFTs have been a controversial topic since its introduction, but in recent times, as more and more popular and universally-loved celebs indulge in NFT games, more and more people have become aware of ...