"From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya Rakini will stand up for herself, and you. From an early age she's fought for what's right. As a child living in Tamil Nadu, she stopped eating so he ...
2023
"Bangladesh has come a long way as a ready-made garment manufacturing country in recent years and is well on its way to displacing China as the world's largest exporter. Given the Rana Plaza building ...
"Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) introduces The Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified® Gold Cashmere Sweater, an iconic product made to be worn, loved and live on responsibly for generations to come. A ...
"The Finance Ministry said on Wednesday it expected garment export growth to halve in 2023, from nearly 11% to 5.5%. The ministry was presenting information on the new budget law for 2023 when it made ...
"As consumers strive to reduce their fashion consumption to become more sustainable, they are becoming increasingly involved in the circular economy. More are turning to rental operators like Rent the ...
"Puma, Adidas and Gildan have all improved their rankings on the Corporate Knights’ 2023 Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable corporations. [...] Kering slid down the list from number 12 la ...
"“It starts with how you perceive your workforce or the costs you’re incurring. For most people, it’s a cost,” said Faryal Sadiq, vice president, sales and marketing, Interloop. “At Interloop, our min ...
"Amazon workers are staging the first ever UK strike on Wednesday against the online giant in a protest over pay. Around 300 staff walked out at Amazon's Coventry warehouse, the GMB union said, over w ...
"Inditex’s CEO, Oscar García Maceiras, signed the Group’s endorsement of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network at a meeting with the Director-General of the International Labour Organization, ...
"Middle Eastern fashion retailer Level Shoes has partnered with circular solutions provider Reflaunt to get a foothold of the secondhand fashion market with its own takeback and resale service. " ...
"The retail giant, the biggest private employer in the United States, is boosting the pay range at US stores to between 14 and 19 dollars an hour from the prior 12 to 18 dollars an hour." ...
"Tiffany Rogers, director of fair compensation and member engagement at the Fair Labor Association (FLA), which works with boldface names from Adidas, Hugo Boss and Lululemon to Nike, Patagonia and Un ...
"As of Jan. 1, minimum wage earners won’t net less than 8,506.00 Turkish lira ($454.26) each month. The per-month gross minimum wage, however, has increased from 7,603.43 Turkish lira ($406.76) to 10, ...
"Citizens of Humanity is investing in creating a pipeline for regenerative cotton. The Los Angeles denim company is working with agricultural nonprofit Kiss the Ground to create “Kiss the Ground Cotto ...
"Levi’s has scaled its automation program, allocating 25,000 hours of work to a team of in-house robots over the past year. The company announced plans to reassign a number of “tedious” tasks—from dat ...
"The mixed-reality project thus advocates ownership, zero waste, and sustainability. And so, to avoid dead stock, all of the creations are available to purchase via an ethically made-to-order system." ...
"Peek under the surface of ‘sustainable’ fashion’s sleek new vegan veneer and its ethical credentials are not what they seem. Ratty hemp dresses and fraying cork shoes have been replaced by buttery-so ...
"So what might it look like to do better? In a recent Twitter thread, menswear writer Derek Guy laid out plausible costs for making a men’s button-down shirt in the United States with high-quality fab ...
"The PVH-owned brand has “curated” a new resale collection to tap into Depop’s Gen Z consumer base and help clear unwanted stock." ...
"Consumers, investors, and governments are finally recognizing the link between fashion and the detrimental impacts of climate change, sparking a growing market for sustainable shoes and apparel. At S ...