"In the Beyşehir district of Konya, a shuttle bus carrying textile workers collided with a pickup truck entering from the secondary road. While the drivers survived the accident without injury, 17 wor ...
2022
"A government study finds 80% of Ctg diarrhoea patients drank Wasa water. [...] The average age of the affected patients is around 22 years. As many as 48% of them are women while 52% are men. Around ...
"The following statement was issued by the Koggala Free Trade Zone Workers Action Committee (KFTZWAC). Initiated by several employees from the Esquel and Aura Garment companies and other plants, the c ...
"C&A is a Supporting Partner of the Circular Fashion Partnership, a cross-sectorial project to support the development of the textile recycling industry in Bangladesh by capturing and directing post-p ...
"A state-of-the-art biodegradability laboratory has been established at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Dartmouth in a bid to accelerate innovation in ocean-safe plastics and other materials w ...
"Following the call of the President of the French Republic and the French government, LVMH announces an energy efficiency plan in order to make a concrete and immediate contribution to the national e ...
"How did your clothes get to you, and who was properly paid for them in the process? The garment industry is notorious for worker exploitation and complicated, unclear supply chains." ...
"Environmental charity Hubbub, Glasgow-based Advanced Clothing Solutions (ACS) and environmental consultant Ecosurety have joined forces to launch Slow Threads: The Sustainable Fashion Fair during Sco ...
"When Rayana Edwards started collecting old saris, she was overwhelmed by the response. "It rained saris," she says. "It was like we were solving a problem for women who had beautiful saris with no pl ...
"Cucinelli first visited China in 1989 and fell in love with its cultural heritage and the white cashmere combed from the beards of Capra Hircus goats in the country’s frigid northern region of Inner ...
"The Institute of Digital Fashion is blending the physical and digital with the launch of a London Fashion Week project that promotes sustainability." ...
"We unpack the sustainable shopping habits of today’s Gen Z Chinese consumers, and what brands can do to capture their spend. Optimistic, responsible, committed to individualism and concerned about th ...
"The Vietnam Textile and Garment Union has disseminated 10 points about unemployment benefits that workers need to know [including] conditions for receiving unemployment benefits; unemployment benefit ...
"Workers staged a protest in Savar to protest against the illegal closure of [Dress Up Ltd.] and demanded its demanding and payment of arrears." [Ed's note: see entries for Dress Up in the Open Appare ...
"IndustriALL general secretary Atle Høie said: “We have been very patient in waiting for this report to confirm what we have been saying for a year already. There are now no more excuses: this report ...
"Branding lessons learned from the Boohoo x Kardashian faux pas. What do Kourtney Kardashian and sustainability have in common? Exactly: nothing. There’s not even a 0.005% overlap in values." ...
"London’s Fashtech Innovation Center is a partnership between print expert Kornit, digital cutting business Zund and manufacturer Fashion Enter that is helping brands and retailers to be more sustaina ...
"Austrian wood-based fibre producer Lenzing has announced that its Chinese subsidiary will be using 100 per cent renewable electricity from 2023, reducing carbon emissions by 100,000 tonnes annually." ...
"As a responsible business, our first priority is the safety and wellbeing of the people who make our clothes and products. We are also conscious of the workers whose livelihoods rely on employment at ...
"“Fashion” is a system that puts value on what is new because it is new, making it synonymous to “change.” Rather than being a style, it is a process according to which styles replace each other. So h ...