"From directional denim to sustainable swimwear, meet the forward-thinking fashion brands reducing the environmental cost of our wardrobes right now." ...
2022
"Negotiations for the wages of workers in the garment and textile industry is set to start next month and workers are expecting to see their minimum wages rise to at least $200 per month." ...
"Two firefighters were wounded during a warehouse fire here shortly after midnight on Wednesday. According to the report of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the fire came from a textile factory in ...
"[N]on-profit group Fashion Revolution has teamed up with a number of organisations around the world to set up the Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign. Officially launching this week, the aim is to get on ...
"Luxury fashion retailer Fwrd has launched a new buy-back and resale initiative in a bid to promote circularity and extend the lifecycle of high-end items." ...
"Ukraine’s Parliament has passed two bills that obliterate workers’ rights to collective bargaining and other fundamental labour protections, and allow employers to put up to 10% of their workforce on ...
"We are pleased to announce that German fashion brand s.Oliver Bernd Freier GmbH & Co. KG is officially a member of Fair Wear! The s.Oliver Group’s goal is to create value through sustainability and i ...
"As Sri Lanka's ex-prime minister is elected president, Just Style investigates how the country's political and economic crisis is impacting the apparel sector right now as well as what it could mean ...
"Business organisations are broadly lining up behind a proposed European ban on products linked to forced labour, albeit with various important provisos." ...
"The days of the bedroom fitting room are numbered. Online retail giant Boohoo has become the latest in a string of retailers, including Next, Uniqlo, and Zara, to start charging shoppers for returns. ...
"We, the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion (UCRF), a diverse collective of more than 225 specialist fashion sustainability researchers and practitioners from around the world, is focused on sy ...
"Pasha Whitmire is the Material Development Lead at Patagonia and point for Patagonia’s technical apparel and equipment product categories. He has built the synthetic material strategy for environment ...
"One of the keys to cracking the code of footwear sustainability is reducing and managing waste. Currently, about 90 percent of shoes end up in landfills, where they begin to break down, but never ful ...
"Boohoo Group has launched a new community programme entitled Be You, aiming to empower 14 to 16-year-olds with knowledge about the fundamentals of data science." ...
"Fashion giant Primark has announced it is to become the first retailer to feature Spanish textile recycler Recover’s RColorBlend fibre - a blend of recycled cotton from textile waste and low impact d ...
"The Fabric Act sees support from Washington as Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney and more back the bill Thursday. [...] Standing for the ‘‘Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Cha ...
"Workers for athleisure company Lululemon Athletica in Washington, D.C., have filed to unionize, seeking to become the first of the company’s 315 U.S. locations to form a union." ...
"Customers will see electric delivery vehicles on the road in more than a dozen cities including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, San Diego, and Seattle The state-of-the-art vehicles are part of ...
"An alliance of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) has drawn up new proposals on responsible purchasing practices in a bid to reduce the negative impacts of the fashion industry on garment workers a ...
"The city council has welcomed the creation of a new textile manufacturers’ federation. The newly-formed Apparel & Textile Manufacturers Federation (ATMF) was formally launched at the Houses of Parlia ...