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Mass consumption an “experiment gone wrong”
LONDON – Fashion Revolution founder Orsola de Castro has welcomed the furore around Burberry’s stock incineration, believing the resulting bad
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C&A jeans set gold standard in sustainability
DÜSSELDORF – C&A has launched what could arguably claim to be the world’s most sustainable jeans. The leading European clothing
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Minimum wage impasse rumbles on in Bangladesh
DHAKA – Union organisations in Bangladesh have reiterated calls for a trebling of monthly wages for ready-made-garment workers from the
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Nike hit with damning gender discrimination lawsuit
OREGON – A group of women who were formerly employed by Nike Inc. are suing the company over claims that
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VF Corp spins out jeans businesses, Lee and Wrangler
GREENSBORO – US apparel giant VF Corporation has announced it will spin off its Lee and Wrangler jeans businesses into
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Fibre scoring tools misleading consumers, claim researchers
OSLO – Current tools used to score textile fibres on sustainability are misleading consumers as they fail to account for
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Higg MSI aims to incorporate microfibre pollution scoring
SAN FRANCISCO – The Sustainable Apparel Coalition wants to incorporate a weighting for microfibre pollution into its Higg Material Sustainability
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Australian drought could hit wool supply and prices
NEW SOUTH WALES – The ongoing drought in wool growing regions of Australia could hit supply and prices, according to
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Child labour concerns return for Turkmenistan cotton
ASHGABAT – Apparel brands are being urged not to source cotton from Turkmenistan amid fresh reports that children were mobilised
Adidas refutes allegations over Indonesian supplier
12th February 2019
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AMSTERDAM – German sportswear brand adidas has refuted claims that it has behaved unfairly in a protracted row related to a group of Indonesian workers
Study outlines tannery worker health problems
12th February 2019
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DHAKA – A new study claims most workers in Bangladesh’s export-oriented leather industry suffer from extreme health hazards due to unsafe working conditions. The Occupational
Union fears over South Africa’s largest clothing retailer
12th February 2019
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JOHANNESBURG – A leading union claims South Africa’s largest clothing and textile retailer could be on the brink of collapse with the loss of 140,00
EU launches EBA withdrawal procedure in Cambodia
12th February 2019
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BRUSSELS – The EU has started the process that could lead to the suspension of Cambodia’s preferential access to the EU market under the Everything
