
Sparxell raises US$5m to scale plant based colourants
LONDON – Cambridge spin-out Sparxell has raised US$5m in a pre series A round as it looks to scale its

LONDON – Cambridge spin-out Sparxell has raised US$5m in a pre series A round as it looks to scale its

BERLIN – German lawmakers have approved an “anti-greenwashing” law that targets vague environmental claims, with fashion in the firing line.

SHANGHAI – Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition 2026 is launching a dedicated ‘Pet Boutique’ zone at the fair,

NYMÖLLA – Lenzing is to take a controlling majority in Swedish innovation firm TreeToTextile, as it aims to industrialise a

NEW YORK – Allbirds will close all of its full price stores in the US by the end of February,

NEW YORK – The fashion industry is still moving too slowly on decarbonisation, with supply chain emissions rising and coal

BAVARIA – Kelheim Fibres has said it will close on 31 March 2026 after failing to secure a viable path

LONDON – The UK Textiles Pact has published a ten point, industry blueprint setting out how a mandatory Extended Producer

NANYANG – Nature-inspired filtration membranes with one nanometre pores could help textile dyehouses recycle water and cut energy use. This

GENEVA – The Better Cotton Initiative has launched a new consumer-facing product label that lets retailers and brands state, on pack, the origin and percentage

AMSTERDAM – In an industry first, major fashion players have joined forces to push hemp from the margins of novelty blends into mainstream denim. Bestseller,

PARIS – Shein will open six permanent bricks-and-mortar stores in France from November in a world-first for the ultra-fast-fashion group. The debut site will be

PARIS – The French National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines has issued a final statement finding that ultra-fast-fashion giant Shein “does not comply

LENZING – Speciality fibre maker Lenzing has launched a strategic review of its Indonesian operations including a potential sale of the Purwakarta site. This is

LONDON – A new ranking of major global fashion brands has found overproduction remains fashion’s most significant, yet hidden, climate problem. Only 9 per cent

COPENHAGEN – Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW) has been warned it risks contributing to misleading end consumers, despite being a business-to-business event. This is after the

GUANGDONG – China has switched on its first fully automated textile waste sorting line with Databeyond Technology, an AI and optoelectronics company. The new system

Methane emissions increasingly matter in sustainability circles, and fashion has a significant methane footprint. But fresh calls to abandon wool, leather and other animal-derived fibres
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