Apparel Insider

OSLO – Current tools used to score textile fibres on sustainability are misleading consumers as they fail to account for…
Read the full story… Fibre scoring tools misleading consumers, claim researchers

SAN FRANCISCO – The Sustainable Apparel Coalition wants to incorporate a weighting for microfibre pollution into its Higg Material Sustainability…
Read the full story… Higg MSI aims to incorporate microfibre pollution scoring

NEW SOUTH WALES – The ongoing drought in wool growing regions of Australia could hit supply and prices, according to…
Read the full story… Australian drought could hit wool supply and prices

ASHGABAT – Apparel brands are being urged not to source cotton from Turkmenistan amid fresh reports that children were mobilised…
Read the full story… Child labour concerns return for Turkmenistan cotton

NASHIK – One of the world’s leading recycled polyester businesses says plans to expand production capacity at its Indian plant…
Read the full story… Recycled polyester capacity expands in India

WASHINGTON – The global apparel sector can play a key role in cutting global warming and meeting the aims of…
Read the full story… Apparel sector can play “key role” on climate change

HONG KONG – Global fashion retailer Esprit has signed a global framework agreement with IndustriALL Global Union to boost rights…
Read the full story… Esprit signs union agreement to boost worker rights

LONDON – Stella McCartney has become the latest brand to decline to answer legitimate and relavent questions about what it…
Read the full story… Stella McCartney evasive on unsold stock issue

PARIS – Luxury retailer Kering, which owns brands such as Gucci and Alexander McQueen, has published its latest Environmental Profit…
Read the full story… Kering publishes natural capital update