
Myanmar exports grow amid ethical violence
NAYPYIDAW – Garment exports from Myanmar are on the up despite ongoing political unrest and allegations of ethnic cleansing in
NAYPYIDAW – Garment exports from Myanmar are on the up despite ongoing political unrest and allegations of ethnic cleansing in
TEXAS – A group of leading international apparel brands have publicly pledged to increase their use of recycled polyester (rPET)
NEW YORK – US apparel retailer J Crew Group has announced a sobering set of financial results for the third
TEXAS – US denim brands Wrangler and Lee have put their financial weight behind a new foam dyeing process which claims
AMSTERDAM – Bringing garment manufacture closer to home is not necessarily the solution to reducing poor working conditions for employees
ADDIS ABABA – One of China’s largest textile manufacturers, Wuxi Cotton Mill, has become the latest inward investor to head
GREENSBORO – US-based apparel and lifestyle retail brand VF Corporation has purchased New Zealand-based Icebreaker as it looks to increase
Aggressive tax avoidance schemes might make financial sense but for a growing number of consumers, they’re simply not cricket. When
ISTANBUL — Customers shopping at Zara, the fast fashion retailer owned by the world’s largest apparel company, Inditex, recently found
LONDON – Better Cotton says monsoon floods have hit thousands of its licensed growers across Punjab’s key cotton districts. In an update shared this week,
LONDON – John Lewis has launched a knitwear collection made entirely from reclaimed wool, produced end-to-end in the UK. The retailer worked with recycling partner
LEEDS – New University of Leeds research claims many textile biodegradation figures rely on lab tests that don’t reflect real-world conditions. The paper synthesised 24
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 – Bestseller has become embroiled in a public row after Danish broadcaster TV 2 scrutinised the fashion group’s Bangladeshi supply chains. The programme included
This article appears in the autumn edition of Natural Fibres Insight. It’s no great secret that for years, wool has carried a heavy burden in
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
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