"Consumers can influence the environmental impact of their wool clothing by increasing the active lifetime of a garment, according to a new study from the Woolmark Company, a not-for-profit global aut ...
"Friday’s “shoes green pact” was drawn up by the Portuguese Footwear Association, representing companies in Europe’s third largest footwear producer after Italy and Spain. More than 90% of their produ ...
"“There’s all this talk about sustainability and you know buy this or buy that, but the truth is, is that these corporations that are preaching this are just making too much. They are making too much, ...
"French biotech startup Pili, which seeks to develop plant-based dyes and pigments for the textile industry, has raised US$15.8 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate its industrialisation ...
"Leather has been seen as an unshakeable and prominent aspect of the fashion industry for millennia. The oldest intact leather shoe is over 5,500 years old, pre-dating the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000 ye ...
"Companies and researchers have found it difficult to determine who exactly is in the crosshairs of an anti-forced labor campaign targeting China. [...] “A lot of members they’re just overwhelmed with ...
"Retailers relied on pricing to solve a lot of their problems last year. Staggering input costs, including those related to energy, transport, and raw materials, were only manageable because they coul ...
"Commodity prices have fallen from their peaks, suggesting there is room to negotiate. But there’s some risk in asking vendors to lower rates." ...
"Yoox is launching a pre-owned category on its marketplace as it promotes circular fashion It follows the launch of resale services powered by Reflaunt on Net-a-porter, Mr Porter and The Outnet last y ...
"Textiles and apparel is to become the latest addition to GRI’s Sector Standards, following approval by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) of a project to create a sustainability reporti ...
"Canadian-based, purpose-driven retailer Frank And Oak announced its shift to a 100% responsible product assortment. The brand's whole product line now either uses low-impact, cruelty-free, organic, b ...
"Goal and Scope The main purpose of this study is to assess the potential reduction in environmental impact of cotton farmed and ginned by small holder farmers operating under the REEL cotton program ...
"True responsibility is shown in understanding not only the activities and outcomes of interventions to improve sustainability, but also the impact. CottonConnect monitors the results of its agricultu ...
"Our Impact Report 2022 reports the results of programmes in the cotton production year 2021-22, including the REEL Cotton Programme, Organic Cotton Farmer Training Programme, Women in Cotton, and Hea ...
"Spanish recycling innovator Recover has teamed up with Swiss spinning machinery manufacturer Rieter in a bid to increase the use of recycled textiles as raw materials." ...
"In Spring 2020, at the height of the first lockdowns and economic upheaval around the globe from COVID-19, the Knight family, the largest shareholder in Nike, Inc., the world’s second largest fashion ...
"Labor Unions in six countries in South and Southeast Asia are joining forces to demand an end to stock buybacks by US-based Big Fashion companies after years of unpaid wage claims. These unions and t ...
"A new international campaign is targeting fashion brands like Nike that are spending vast sums on stock buybacks instead of compensating workers for lost pandemic wages. [...] On February 27, unions ...
"Inspired by its love of the ocean, Barcelona-based TwoThirds has already adopted Econyl, a material made from nylon waste, such as used fishing nets, because it is recyclable and uses 60 percent less ...
"The Lycra Company, Lenzing, Jeanologia and Marmara Hemp are among the partners to contribute to Soorty’s new fabric collection. Called “Design for Circularity,” the eight-piece capsule collection bri ...
