NEW YORK - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Climate Change are to co-publish a new 'playbook' on how the global fashion industry should share information on sustainability with consumers. The 'Sustainable Fashion Communication…
LONDON - Nike has made a significant change to its corporate and social responsibility policy that will see the sportswear giant commit to only using wool certified to the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS).
AMSTERDAM – Online fashion marketplace Otrium has linked up with climate tech start-up Vaayu in a bid to assess the carbon emissions saved by selling off unsold stock at a discount rather than sending it to landfill. Vaaya used its proprietary…
PARIS - Buying second-hand has become “more ingrained in consumers’ approach to buying fashion”, according to a new impact report released today by fashion resale platform Vestiaire Collective after undertaking a global survey of 3,500 platform…
AMSTERDAM - Athleticwear brand Lululemon is among a number of new partners which have joined Fashion for Good's Sorting for Circularity USA project to assess where investment is needed to scale collection, sorting and recycling. Lululemon joins…
HONG KONG – Apparel industry NGO Redress is inviting fashion design professionals working with manufacturers in China and Southeast Asia to contribute to a new circular design research project. The study aims to assess the current state of play in…
PARIS – Fashion brand Lacoste has been accused by the Moral Rating Agency (MRA) corporate watchdog of playing down its business interests in Russia following the military invasion of Ukraine. In a statement to France’s L’Express given in early June…
WELWYN GARDEN CITY - Retail giant Tesco will today be challenged on its use of social auditing at its annual meeting over a lawsuit in which supply chain garment workers claim they were trapped in forced labour conditions. Representatives from the…
LONDON - Calls for retailers to work with their supply chain partners to improve traceability and environmental impacts are being made by think-tank Planet Tracker in its latest report. After analysing some 3,900 companies in the textile industry,…
DÜSSELDORF - German fashion retailer C&A is aiming to increase transparency across its extensive supplier network by adopting GSDCost, Coats Digital’s software solution. The retailer, which has over 1,300 stores in 17 European countries, hopes it…
MIAMI - US senator Marco Rubio, one of the authors of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), has written to his fellow senators urging them to hold fast fashion giant Shein to account on forced labour allegations. Rubio argues that Shein's…
STOCKHOLM – A Swedish blockchain company has bought online fashion brand BLK DNM known for its denim, leather, and tailored clothing as it looks to ‘inspire more responsible behaviours’ in the fashion industry. The IT firm ChromaWay, which created…
OBERTSHAUSEN –Sporting goods retailer Decathlon has teamed up with its suppliers to develop a swimsuit fabric without elastane that is designed for circularity. The retailer has collaborated with machinery manufacturer, the Karl Mayer Group, and…
DHAKA - Swedish fashion giant H&M has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) towards a circular and climate neutral garment sector in Bangladesh. Helena Helmersson, CEO…
HERZOGENAURACH – Sportswear giant Adidas has been urged to share the proceeds of its defunct 'Yeezy' partnership with Kanye West with some of the workers who made the products. The company was left with Yeezy shoes worth US$1.3 billion after cutting…
MALMO - As online retailers fight back against excessive returns, Swedish fashion e-tailer Boozt.com has blocked 42,000 customers for returning too many items because of the cost and damage to the environment. Boozt said the customers had been…
ARTEIXO - Inditex's second-hand platform, Zara Pre-Owned, is set to expand into continental Europe by the end of 2023, after a successful launch in the UK in 2022. The peer-to-peer fashion resale platform is reportedly focused on expanding the…
HERZOGENAURACH - Sportswear company Puma made seven out of 10 products from 'better' materials last year, according to the company’s new 2022 sustainability report. These materials included cotton and viscose from certified sources, as well as…
NEW YORK CITY – Industry stakeholders and United Nations representatives will meet at the upcoming UN Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network annual meeting in New York to focus on how fashion can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals…
PERTH – Bio-materials company Nanollose, which uses microbes to make cellulosic fibres, has received a tax incentive rebate from the Australian government as part of the government’s research and development (R&D) tax incentive programme. The…
LONDON– ASOS has launched its first rental service with rental marketplace Hirestreet, as the rental apparel market in the UK is forecasted to grow significantly in the next three years Selected from the clothing company’s homegrown brands, the…
PARIS - H&M CEO Helena Helmersson has been appointed the new co-chair of the Fashion Pact, succeeding the initiative's co-founder, François-Henri Pinault, the chairman and CEO of Kering. Pinault launched the Fashion Pact, which aims to mitigate…
MUMBAI - Ultra fast fashion brand Shein is set to begin trading in India again after partnering with retail conglomerate Reliance Retail, three years after its app was banned from the country. The clothing company is expected to operate through the…
VANCOUVER / SYDNEY – Canadian athleticwear brand Lululemon has launched a multi-year partnership with Australian recycling company Samsara Eco. The partnership, which aims to "infinitely recycle" nylon and polyester from apparel waste, represents…
SAN FRANCISCO – Technology firm Bold Metrics has partnered with Pact apparel in the USA to use its artificial intelligence (AI) platform to lower average return rates and to help apparel brands meet sustainability targets.The company says it’s now…
MILAN - Luxury fashion house Gucci has reportedly deleted its claim of becoming “entirely carbon neutral” from its website and is no longer working with South Pole, the Swiss carbon credit consultancy it partnered with on the commitment. Gucci,…
ST LOUIS – A US consumer has filed a complaint in a district court in Missouri that accuses Nike of product greenwash in the US state. The lawsuit says that “to increase profits and to gain an advantage over its lawfully acting competitors, Nike…
BRUSSELS - More needs to be done to address power imbalances in garment value chains, according to a new report released by the Fair-Trade Advocacy Office (FTAO) in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth. The report, titled Fair Purchasing…
ELGIN - Scottish cashmere brand Johnstons of Elgin has become the latest in the fashion industry to be awarded B Corp status in recognition of its efforts to reduce its social and environmental impacts. B Corporations, of which there are more than…
MILAN – More new speakers have been announced in the lead up to the opening of the 11th edition of Planet Textiles, which kicks off on June 12th at ITMA 2023 in Milan. Alessia Scroccaro, sustainability specialist, at the Benetton Group will be…
LONDON - Retail giant Marks and Spencer (M&S) has announced that it has increased its investment in sustainable fashion brand Nobody's Child. In 2020, Nobody's Child became the first independent label to be marketed through the M&S website and the…
AUCKLAND – Some of New Zealand’s most popular clothing brands are failing to provide basic information on where their clothes are made, according to Oxfam's latest ‘What she makes’ campaign milestone report. Based on public data available to…
BARCELONA - Spanish clothing brand Mango has signed the Pakistan Accord, making it the 55th company to pledge its support to the protection of garment workers in Pakistan. The company joins the likes of Hugo Boss, Inditex, Primark and Puma in the…
DÜSSELDORF / MADRID – German fashion retailer C&A has launched a new collection made with recycled cotton produced from textile waste by Spanish materials science company Recover. The new spring/summer 2023 collection is part of a four-year…
LONDON – Nearly 200 companies operating in the fashion and textiles industry across Asia, Europe, and North America feature on the Circular Start-up Index of more than 500 innovative start-ups, launched by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to…
BROOMFIELD – Croc Inc, the company behind the footwear brand Crocs, has pushed back its target of becoming a net zero company to 2040, instead of the previously announced 2030 deadline. Reported in the company's 2022 Environmental, Social and…
SINGAPORE - Chinese ultra fast fashion giant Shein's drive to improve its reputation is continuing with a US$70 million investment over the next five years to modernise its supply factories, increase automation and improve facilities for workers.…
BERLIN - Software provider circular.fashion and the German Fair Recycling Federation have concluded a 2-year closed loop pilot-scale project, which they describe as ‘very promising’. The aim of the initiative, which launched in June 2021, was to put…
LONDON - More than half of brands and retailers do not link executive pay with sustainability performance, according to a new report from the Planet Tracker financial think tank. It analysed 30 brands and found that 17, including Anta Sports, Gap,…
BRUSSELS – Scientists at the VUB University in Brussels have made progress in the development of a ‘self-healing’ leather-like material that could be used in future textiles and footwear. In a new study, mycelium, a root-like structure of a fungus…
BARCELONA - A director of ultra fast fashion giant Shein has raised eyebrows by claiming the company plans to become more focused on sustainability in future. Shein executive vice chairman Donald Tang told the World Retail Congress in Barcelona that…
LONDON – Younger consumers say they can no longer afford to shop sustainably because of the cost-of-living crisis, a new study produced by customer research company, Untold Insights has found. Approximately 1,000 people between the ages of 16 and 40…
LONDON – The UK based department store, Selfridges, has launched what it is calling a “season of second-hand and circular shopping experiences” in a four-month long event called “Worn Again”. The event is part of the company's Reselfridges…
VANCOUVER – Canadian athleticwear brand Lululemon has launched its first line of shirts made with plant-based nylon as part of its partnership with biotechnology company Geno. The deal with San Diego-based Geno, which ferments plant sugars into the…
DENVER – Timberland, Vans and The North Face are working with farmers in Thailand to roll out new footwear made with regeneratively sourced natural rubber, as they look to meet stringent environmental goals. Parent company VF Corporation, which owns…
BRANDE - Danish fashion giant Bestseller has avoided 37,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the two years since announcing its a carbon-neutral transport agreement with shipping giant Maersk. Bestseller says its logistics emissions in 2021-22 would have…
ARTEIXO - Spanish fashion brand Zara has linked up with textile recycler Circ to launch what it says is the first ever collection of clothes made with recycled polyester and lyocell separated from blended textile waste. The collection of womenswear…
NEW YORK — US fashion brand American Eagle Outfitters has announced twin online initiatives encouraging young shoppers to buy second-hand. In partnerships with apparel consignment firm thredUP and social media platform Snapchat respectively, a new…
NEW YORK – Luxury fashion company Tapestry, which owns brands such as Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman, has announced that it has joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) network. The EMF's network aligns stakeholders from across industry…
DENVER – US apparel brand Smartwool has teamed up with North Carolina-based circularity platform Material Return to turn customers' old socks into new ones. The Second Cut hike sock has been created out of repurposed yarn taken from used hike socks…
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