
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

TEXAS – Textile Exchange has published a major new cotton LCA that shows how sharply impacts can vary across production systems and geographies. The study,

BRUSSELS – The EU has announced a major overhaul of its customs code which will hit fashion brands selling cheap parcels direct into the EU.

AMSTERDAM – Fashion for Good has launched a project to test whether mass balance accounting could be used for biomass-attributed PET for clothing. The work

BEIJING – Shein has used new customer survey data to claim “circular fashion” habits are already common among its shoppers. The online retailer said repeat

STOCKHOLM – H&M Group reported falling sales and flat financial performance in 2025, with net sales down 2.6 per cent to US$24.15bn from US$24.81bn. Sales

STOCKHOLM – Renasens has raised €10m to scale a textile recycling technology that uses supercritical CO2 to recover fibres from blended waste. The Swedish start-up

BRUSSELS – The EU has launched an €11m fund to support textile recycling technologies for mixed post-consumer clothing waste from blended products. The call, under

BRUSSELS – 15 MEPs have urged the European Commission not to limit upcoming textile ecodesign rules to recyclability and recycled content alone. In a letter

BREMEN – Cotton farming is under growing pressure from weak farm economics, climate disruption and rising production risks. This is the warning of the International
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