
OECD puts Shein on notice over rights and environmental failings
PARIS – The French National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines has issued a final statement finding that ultra-fast-fashion

PARIS – The French National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines has issued a final statement finding that ultra-fast-fashion

LENZING – Speciality fibre maker Lenzing has launched a strategic review of its Indonesian operations including a potential sale of

LONDON – A new ranking of major global fashion brands has found overproduction remains fashion’s most significant, yet hidden, climate

COPENHAGEN – Bestseller has become embroiled in a public row after Danish broadcaster TV 2 scrutinised the fashion group’s Bangladeshi

This article appears in the autumn edition of Natural Fibres Insight. It’s no great secret that for years, wool has

COPENHAGEN – Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW) has been warned it risks contributing to misleading end consumers, despite being a business-to-business

SAN FRANCISCO – US denim giant Levi Strauss & Co has launched a programme that gives Indian suppliers free support

AMSTERDAM – The fashion industry is shifting further towards polyester at the expense of cotton, according to research by Solidaridad

GUANGDONG – China has switched on its first fully automated textile waste sorting line with Databeyond Technology, an AI and

HELSINKI – Finnish textile recycling technology and business, Infinited Fiber Company, has completed a two-part financing round totalling €40m. The funding includes investments from new

WASHINGTON – Decarbonising global fashion supply chains to achieve a net-zero fashion industry by 2050 will cost more than one trillion dollars, claims new analysis

LEICESTER – A UK apparel retailer is raking in a seven figure sum annually by charging clothng garment manufacturers for late delivery, claims a prominent

YANGON – Garment workers in Myanmar are unlikely to benefit from recent minimum wage increases as factories have upped production targets to compensate. New research

NEW YORK – The amount of clothing retailed on Amazon increased by 27 per cent between February and September 2018. Most of the increase was

DHAKA – 532 factories could potentially be declared ineligible to produce for Bangladesh Accord signatory companies by 1 January 2019 if the Bangladesh Accord leaves

ZÜRICH – A new PFC-free water-repellent for leather has been established by Swiss textile technology business HeiQ and DuPont Consumer Solutions, a business unit of

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s duty-free access to the European Union is under threat after the country’s president replaced the elected Prime Minister with a nationalist

LONDON – Arcadia brands such as Topshop and Miss Selfridge “face huge challenges” in the months ahead if the results of a new poll of
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