LONDON – Fashion’s race to scale lower impact materials and cleaner manufacturing is being slowed by a structural imbalance in who carries the risk. A

PARIS – French retailer Carrefour has begun rolling out environmental labelling across a first tranche of its Tex private label clothing. The move starts with

ZURICH – Oeko-Tex has partnered with TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, to digitise transaction certificates for organic cotton supply chains. The move comes as certification volumes

PARIS – Textile recycler Reju has selected Rochester, New York for its first US industrial sized textile to textile recycling facility. The company says it

ISTANBUL – Türkiye’s textile and apparel industry entered 2026 with fresh signs of contraction, after more than 4,500 companies shut in 2025.

PARIS – The French Government has asked its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) operator, Refashion, to propose new penalties for ultra fast fashion. France’s EPR scheme

LONDON – Valentino Garavani, the Italian designer whose gowns helped define post-war glamour and dressed generations of royalty and film stars, has died.

LENZING – Fibre maker Lenzing and Energie AG Umwelt Service have extended their partnership in Reststoffverwertung Lenzing (RVL) to the end of 2040. The companies

SEOUL – South Korea researchers have developed a method that removes microplastics in minutes by drawing the particles together with a magnetic field.