"Secondhand sales are booming, but few retailers go it alone. Here’s what brands should consider when selecting a resale partner." ...
2023
"Halit Gümüser, managing director of Kipas Holdings, the parent company of Kipas Textiles, has one message to the international community: Remember Turkey." ...
"At the Bangladesh Business Summit 2023, members of the Bangladesh apparel industry called on fashion buyers to offer fairer prices given the quality and product diversity it now has to offer, accordi ...
"The Global Organic Textile Standard is pleased to announce the release of GOTS Version 7.0, which features an expanded scope of environmental and social criteria while maintaining a standard that is ...
"As part of its commitment to give clothes a longer life, Primark is launching new durability and repair initiatives designed to help ensure clothes can be loved and worn for longer. According to lead ...
"The European Commission has rejected calls from the bottled water industry to reserve recovered PET bottles in priority for recycling into new food-grade plastics, saying this risked causing distorti ...
"Today, leading sporting goods retailer INTERSPORT Sweden – with almost 100 stores across the country – is partnering with solutions-driven non-profit Canopy to advance forest-friendly supply chains. ...
"Today, Belfast-based global circularity platform RESPONSIBLE announced the acquisition of HARU, uniting their cutting-edge re-commerce technologies and circularity solutions to benefit the fashion in ...
"The University of Helsinki has been awarded European Union (EU) grants worth nearly €1.7 million (US$1.8m) for a research project that combines the cultural history of textile dyeing with the explora ...
"Four students and one faculty member addressed a letter to University President Santa Ono calling on the University of Michigan to condemn alleged wage theft by Nike and the Hong Seng Knitting factor ...
"Textile innovation company Circular Systems has joined forces with traceable fibre technology specialist FibreTrace, to implement physical traceability technology into Texloop recycled cotton on a gl ...
"The iconic German department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, will close down 52 of its 129 stores, as announced on Monday by the group, which has been struggling financially for several years." ...
"Technology research and advisory company Technavio released a report on the growth of the clothing rental market, pointing out its estimated increase by 3 billion dollars from 2021 to 2026 and highli ...
"A total of 631 apparel, footwear and textile shipments with a combined value of $29.55 million have been stopped under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) since it came into effect in June ...
"Pangaia’s brightly-coloured loungewear drove a pandemic sales boom, but the company’s bigger ambition to establish itself as a materials innovation powerhouse remains nascent. The brand swung from an ...
"In 2020, the British Fashion Council (BFC) launched the Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) to create a new industry standard for accountability by acting as a catalyst for change in the UK fashion i ...
"Some 23 million items of returned fashion were sent to landfill or incinerated in the UK last year, according to a new landmark study from the British Fashion Council’s (BFC) Institute of Positive Fa ...
"In episode 289, Kestrel welcomes Amy Powney, a UK based fashion designer, creative director and activist living in London. After starting as an assistant who swept the cutting room floor, Amy worked ...
"Californian recommerce specialist Trove has published the first of what it says will be an annual assessment of the resale platforms of more than 40 leading fashion brands and retailers." ...
"H&M U.S is helping garments gain a second life with its very first resale business model in the U.S. on March 14th, 2023, through thredUP's Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS). "H&M Pre-Loved" offers customer ...