
Patagonia donates US$10m to climate change causes
CALIFORNIA – US outdoor brand Patagonia will donate the entire US$10m it saved in taxes last year to non-profits which

CALIFORNIA – US outdoor brand Patagonia will donate the entire US$10m it saved in taxes last year to non-profits which

MANILA – A Chinese textile business has targeted the Philippines for a reported US$100m green textile park. China Zhejiang Guannan

MUNICH – Textile technology business Polartec has launched the first ever fabric technology engineered to reduce microfibre shedding. The business

NEW YORK – AlgiKnit, a biomaterials company which is developing yarn spun from kelp, has announced a US$2.2m Series Seed

LONDON – Online apparel brand Boohoo is selling some dresses at a loss to drive website traffic. Carol Kane, joint

DHAKA – Bangladeshi garment suppliers are still being driven down on price by apparel brands and retailers – but some

STOCKHOLM – Swedish fast fashion brand H&M is to close down its Cheap Monday skinny jeans brand amid declining sales

LONDON – A new report claims Chinese viscose factories which have signed up to a high-profile industry sustainability initiative are

AMSTERDAM – More than half of the 1,600 garment factories inspected by the Bangladesh Accord are yet to install adequate

LENZING – This week offers further evidence that the luxury fashion sector is embracing sustainability. Austrian specialist fibre maker, Lenzing, has announced a massive expansion

PERTH – An Australian tech business this week launched the first plant-free viscose-rayon fibres at an industry conference in Vancouver. Nanollose has set up a

KENYA – Clothing made with Calotropis procera, a species of flowering plant native to parts of Africa and Asia, are likely to hit shops before

ADDIS ABABA – Government, union leaders and textile manufacturers met this week to discuss wages and worker rights in Ethiopia’s rapidly developing textile sector. Among
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