
H&M responds to China crisis
STOCKHOLM – Swedish fast fashion giant H&M has responded to threats by Chinese consumers to boycott its stores. The company’s

STOCKHOLM – Swedish fast fashion giant H&M has responded to threats by Chinese consumers to boycott its stores. The company’s

BEIJING – A leading Chinese viscose producer has been dragged into the global row around forced labour and human rights

SPONSORED CONTENT – In the past few years we have seen a sustained upturn in the demand for organic cotton.

BEIJING – The Shanghai office of the Better Cotton Initiative has complained that the head office of the global cotton

BEIJIING – Chinese sportswear company Anta Sports has begun the process to quit the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and continue

BRUSSELS – Natural fibres such as cotton and wool offer many solutions to the world’s current environmental challenges, but they

MANCHESTER – Fast growing online fashion retailer, Boohoo, has cut ties with hundreds of UK suppliers following a critical review

SHANGHAI – H&M has been blocked from using several major Chinese ecommerce platforms including JD.com, Pinduoduo, Tmall and Taobao over

AMSTERDAM – A new report says the use of forced labour was rife in the 2020 cotton harvest in Turkmenistan.

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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