
French clothing brands want binding sustainability laws
PARIS – 150 French textile and apparel businesses have called for an end to voluntary industry commitments on sustainability which

PARIS – 150 French textile and apparel businesses have called for an end to voluntary industry commitments on sustainability which

LONDON – Fashion Revolution claims transparency progress is still too slow among 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and

HONG KONG – The world’s largest denim manufacturer, ISKO, has entered a licensing agreement with textile research and development company

WASHINGTON – Esquel Group, the Hong Kong-based textile and apparel manufacturer, has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Commerce

SINGAPORE – Sateri, the world’s largest viscose producer and a member of the RGE group of companies, has expanded its collaboration

AMSTERDAM – A major new study claims there are enough usable agricultural residue streams from farming in South and Southeast

LONDON – The UK government has been accused of dragging its heels in tackling the the environmental damage and human rights

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) says almost a third of its apparel industry workforce has now

PARIS – French prosecutors have opened an investigation against fashion retailers Uniqlo, Zara owner Inditex, French company SMCP and US

STUTTGART – The number of Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)-certified facilities globally rose 15.3 per cent year on year to 17,800 in 2025. Certified sites

NEW SOUTH WALES – Australian brand LSKD has signed a 10-year agreement with Samsara Eco to use enzymatically recycled nylon 6,6 in its products. The

LONDON – Epoch Biodesign has unveiled plans for Europe’s first nylon 6,6 bio-recycling demonstration plant, weeks after raising €10.3m. The facility will be located at

PARIS – Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN say they have validated a new textile-to-textile polyester recycling process at semi-industrial scale. The trio processed several tens of

AMSTERDAM – The Clean Clothes Campaign has filed a lawsuit accusing Levi Strauss of misleading consumers about labour conditions in its supply chain.

WASHINGTON – The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has questioned a US trade probe into alleged excess capacity in fashion supply chains. The trade

BRUSSELS – European textile trade body, EURATEX, has issued a stark warning over the future of Europe’s textile industry. It says factory closures are continuing

SAN FRANCISCO -Troubled footwear brand Allbirds is abandoning shoes for AI infrastructure in one of the most abrupt pivots ever seen in consumer markets. The

HAMBURG – More than 40,000 smallholder farmers in India and Tanzania are now growing cotton under the Regenerative Cotton Standard. This is according to the
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