Ecotextile News

Fashion activist Katharine Hamnett: "Things have got worse"

Fri, 24 May 2019

LONDON — Fashion designer and ethical activist Katharine Hamnett sat down with Ecotextile News for the latest instalment of our Hard Talk interview series. Industry alignment, the key issues facing the cotton sector, potential for legislative change, politics, trade ...

Levi's, Nike, Gap seek climate and carbon talks

Thu, 23 May 2019

WASHINGTON — Senior executives from more than 75 businesses in the United States, including apparel powerhouses Gap, Levi’s and Nike, have arranged to meet with a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers to debate meaningful climate legislation — including a national ...

Levi's, Nike, Gap seek climate and carbon talks

Big Closets Small Planet: H&M climate positive by 2040?

Wed, 22 May 2019

WAKEFIELD – Series Two of the Big Closets Small Planet podcast, run in partnership between Ecotextile News and the Sustainable Fashion Academy (SFA), is now in full swing. Innovation in Climate Action is this week’s focus. More specifically, host Mike Schragger asks ...

Big Closets Small Planet: H&M climate positive by 2040?

BACK ISSUE ARCHIVE

- Urban Outfitters pivots into rental fashion
  
  Wednesday, 22 May 2019
  PHILADELPHIA — Fashion retailer Urban Outfitters has announced that Nuuly, a subscription-based...
  
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- F4D partner with Oxitex and Class
- Nike debuts circular fashion design guid...

- Pilot yields C2C certified ‘biodegradable’ printed textiles
  
  Wednesday, 22 May 2019
  TÜBINGEN – In a significant advancement for the textile printing sector, speciality chemical...
  
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- ADIF and ZDHC announce collaboration
- Dye price chaos fears after fatal factor...

- Supply chain transparency 'good for business'
  
  Tuesday, 21 May 2019
  WASHINGTON – A new report claims that companies exhibiting greater supply chain transparency...
  
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- European recycling board expands polyest...
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundation praise...

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- Sustainability in the apparel industry
  
  Wednesday, 01 May 2019
  Making the Case for Improving a Laudable Initiative Dalena White, IWTO secretary General The ever-increasing focus on sustainability in the apparel industry is both important and encouraging. Anyone who manufactures garments using natural materials like wool, or with...
  
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- Eurojersey declares PEF in textile sector first
  
  Friday, 24 May 2019
  MILAN – Italian warp knit fabrics producer Eurojersey has become the first textile company to...
  
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- Textile Exchange and Reblend join Cotton...
- Animals in fashion: are we nearing Farma...

- Inditex extends displaced migrant support
  
  Friday, 24 May 2019
  ARTEIXO — Spanish fashion conglomerate Inditex, the parent company of brands such as Zara and...
  
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- Are banks ignoring ethical fashion?
- PVH strategy to change one million lives...

- PEFC helps fashion see the wood for the trees
  
  Thursday, 23 May 2019
  LONDON — PEFC’s Forests for Fashion event has seen industry representatives from the likes of...
  
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- Final Planet Textiles 2019 line-up revea...
- ASBCI Conference places focus on sustain...

Features
- Everlane outlines its 'sustainable' goals
  
  Thursday, 11 April 2019
  Using radical supply chain transparency to guide its ‘anti-fast fashion’ business model, Kim Smith, Everlane’s head of apparel gave John Mowbray an insight into how the US retailer works. We first came across Everlane around eight years ago when our mothballed sister...
  
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- Blue Signs
- The ups and downs of ‘closing the loop’

Editor's Pick
- OECD forum offers frank assessment of garment sector
  
  Thursday, 11 April 2019
  The fifth annual OECD forum on responsible supply chains in Paris offered up a frank assessment of the garment and footwear sectors. Key advances and achievements were tempered by stark warnings over persistent issues which plague the industry, such as human rights...
  
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- Pulp Friction
- Retailers blind to colour sampling impacts