"For the fashion industry, sourcing from military-controlled Myanmar is now a pressing ethical dilemma. A new report details multiple cases of labour and human rights abuses in garment factories." ...
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"Calvin Klein Jeans tapped Fashion Clinic, a Hong Kong-based collective of designers and tailors with specialties in redesigning and upcycling deadstock garments and materials, to help tell a visual a ...
"HURR, the leading UK-based fashion rental platform, has announced that it is now a certified B Corporation, making it the first rental business to get the designation. [...] The award recognizes HURR ...
"Denim may no longer be the monocrop industry it once was, but it’s far from becoming a zero-cotton garment, and experts aren’t sold on it ever needing to be. [...] “I think it would be nice if 100 pe ...
"Biotechnology company Insempra has announced a strategic investment in synthetic biology company Solena in a bid to accelerate the development of “naturally superior” materials." ...
"The textile and garment industry, which is the backbone of Vietnam’s economy, is benefiting from the country’s deeper integration into the global economy through joining more free trade agreements (F ...
"The agitation, “save water, save environment”, took place across 16 places, including outside textile giant Trident Group’s unit at Dhaula village in Barnala, and put the spotlight on water pollution ...
"Brac says it is providing RMG workers with six services under this project, including skill development, primary health and nutrition services, legal aid services, financial inclusion services, and o ...
"Ahead of the back-to-school season, the H&M Group-owned brand will debut its first products that follow Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign project, a set of guidelines established in 2019 to ...
"More than 30 environmentally conscious artists and designers join forces at “CanU,” a new exhibition in Shanghai that aims to educate, engage, and empower people about sustainability in fashion." ...
"US boycott of Xinjiang cotton looks to reshape global textile supply chain by isolating China – the world’s biggest textile producer, exporter and consumer But global textile supply chain is so inter ...
"Muji is still touting products made with Xinjiang cotton, and not only in China, where the Japanese retailer has publicly voiced its support for the fiber despite widespread concern that it’s being h ...
"The regime in Belarus has dismantled the country's independent trade unions. IndustriALL and affiliates stand strong in defending them and democracy in the country." ...
"Summary: OLYMP showed progress and met most of Fair Wear's performance requirements in its first year of membership. With a score of 65 points, the member is placed in the 'Good' category. The member ...
"Geckos and turtles front the campaign for National Geographic and ethical sneaker brand Cariuma." ...
"Amazon is officially starting deliveries in its new custom all-electric Rivian Electric Delivery Vehicle (EDV). The tech giant’s new EDVs hit the road as of July 21 in cities all over the U.S., inclu ...
"When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, social conflict inside the country was not put on hold: any illusion that its defence needs might produce a truce in the class struggle soon vanished. If a ...
"Molly-Mae is miles ahead of her closest Love Island competitor Kem Cetinay whose businesses are thought to have earned him £698,624 in capital and reserves. [...] Her success is not without controver ...
"Decathlon has launched a rental service across a range of its products in order to make sports more affordable for shoppers. The service, which includes stand up paddleboards (SUPs), kayaks and e-bik ...
"Dr. Martens has partnered with five Central Saint Martins (CSM) MA Fashion students to create bespoke designs as part of the brand’s ‘All Access Summer’ campaign, each to fit with the students’ own f ...