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SAN FRANCISCO -Troubled footwear brand Allbirds is abandoning shoes for AI infrastructure in one of the most abrupt pivots ever

SAN FRANCISCO -Troubled footwear brand Allbirds is abandoning shoes for AI infrastructure in one of the most abrupt pivots ever

HAMBURG – More than 40,000 smallholder farmers in India and Tanzania are now growing cotton under the Regenerative Cotton Standard.

DHAKA – Bangladesh has made some progress under the ILO’s roadmap, but unions say factory conditions remain far behind the

LONDON – Fashion brands responded to the 2025 tariff shock by pausing orders, pushing for lower prices and shifting costs

VALENCIA – Spanish recycled cotton fibre business, Recover, and Chinese denim manufacturer, Prosperity Textile, are to develop a new denim

ENSCHEDE – Dutch textile recycling innovator SaXcell has confirmed plans to open a pulp plant in the Netherlands in early

LONDON – Primark claims 5 per cent of clothing units sold in 2024/25 were ‘circular by design,’ 20 per cent

AMSTERDAM – Fashion for Good has launched a new project to help unlock post-consumer textile waste for textile recycling in

EINDHOVEN – RE&UP, Madewell and ISKO have turned 20,000 pairs of post-consumer jeans into feedstock for a new textile-to-textile denim

HELSINKI – Spanish fast fashion retailer Inditex, parent company of Zara, has signed a €100m deal with textile recycler Infinited Fiber Company. The deal sees

LONDON – Chinese fast fashion brand Shein dropped 9,008 new product lines today. On Tuesday it dropped 9,677. On Monday this figure was 7,282. I

LONDON – British online fast-fashion retailer Boohoo says it plans to increase near-sourcing from the United Kingdom, Europe and northern Africa to cut supply lead

What are the main vegan alternatives to leather, how do they perform and what is their environmental profile like? INGE FLOWERS, managing director of Authenticae,

DHAKA – Government ministers and advisors, the European Union, UN bodies, brands, global fashion campaigners, brands, manufacturers and industry leaders will rub shoulders at one

DEHLI – Control Union, which recently told its Indian cotton clients it would no longer be certifying Indian organic cotton, has confirmed the move is

STOCKHOLM – Digital apparel sourcing specialist, Material Exchange, has announced has raised €25m in Series A funding. Material Exchange is a virtual marketplace which aims to simplify

WASHINGTON – A new report has ranked 30 US outdoor clothing and fashion retailers on their progress in phasing out PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances),

BRUSSELS – EU environment commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevičius, has told Apparel Insider the fashion industry is currently “free riding” on the circular system for PET bottles
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