The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
"How Can Lidl Sell Jeans for £5.99? Easy… Pay People 23p an Hour to Make Them" (The Guardian)
"Lidl does not buy its jeans from Bangladesh because Dhaka's factories are the finest in the world: it does so because they pay their workers a pittance."
"Is It Time to Give Up Leather?" (The Guardian)
"To luxury fashion houses, leather goods are the rocket fuel of their huge expansion over the past decade. To high street fashion brands they represent an unrivalled cash cow. To consumers they're just another disposable fashion product."
"Nordic Pulp Firms See Future in Turning Birch Trees into Fashion" (Reuters)
"Nordic pulp makers are developing clean ways to turn birch and pine trees into clothes to help revive their industry and meet demand from fashion and furniture firms for alternative textiles to cotton."
"This Patagonia Supplier Has Received the First-Ever Global Traceable Down Standard" (Sourcing Journal)
"Downlite, a U.S.-based down and feather processor and supplier of responsibly-sourced performance fills, announced Tuesday that it's the first company to be certified to the Global Traceable Down Standard."
"IFC to Promote Vietnam Textile Industry Sustainability" (Fibre2Fashion)
"IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is partnering with global apparel and footwear major VF Corporation and consumer products retailer Target Corporation to improve resource efficiency at their supplier factories in Vietnam."
The sector’s planet-warming emissions inched lower in 2022 thanks to revised data, but they’re still on track to grow by more than 40 percent by 2030, according to a new report.
Textile-to-textile recycling technologies could be a climate game changer for fashion’s environmental footprint. But like renewable energy, they need state support for market efforts to scale, argues Nicole Rycroft.
More than a year after the ultra-fast-fashion company said it would tackle issues of unlawful overtime, 75-hour weeks remain common in its supply chain, Swiss watchdog Public Eye found.
A study published this week found traces of cotton from Xinjiang in nearly a fifth of the products it examined, highlighting the challenges brands face in policing their supply chains even as requirements to do so spread to raw materials from diamonds to leather and palm oil.