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.
"H&M Factories in Myanmar Employed 14-Year-Old Workers" (The Guardian)
"Swedish fashion chain H&M worked with clothing factories in Myanmar where children as young as 14 toiled for more than 12 hours a day."
"The Multifaceted 'Burkini' Debate" (The New York Times)
"The moves by French mayors in coastal cities to ban the burkini on their beaches has put a new twist on a long-running debate in Europe and beyond about whether Muslim women should or shouldn't cover their heads and, in rarer cases, their bodies."
"How Amazon Values Its Tech Assets for Tax Purposes" (Bloomberg)
"Regulators in Europe and the US say that the value Amazon places on the technology behind user experience varies radically depending on which appraisal will lower its tax bill."
"Fur Farms Still Unfashionably Cruel, Critics Say" (National Geographic)
"Animals in China have few protections. Will efforts elsewhere to make the industry more humane go far enough?"
"U.S. Trade Judge Clears Fitbit of Stealing Jawbone's Trade Secrets" (Fortune)
"Fitbit did not steal rival Jawbone's trade secrets, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled on Tuesday, dashing Jawbone's hopes of securing an import ban against Fitbit's wearable fitness tracking devices."
Fashion’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier said it found no evidence of non-compliance at farms covered by its standard, but acknowledged weaknesses in its monitoring approach.
As they move to protect their intellectual property, big brands are coming into conflict with a growing class of up-and-coming designers working with refashioned designer gear.
The industry needs to ditch its reliance on fossil-fuel-based materials like polyester in order to meet climate targets, according to a new report from Textile Exchange.
Cotton linked to environmental and human rights abuses in Brazil is leaking into the supply chains of major fashion brands, a new investigation has found, prompting Zara-owner Inditex to send a scathing rebuke to the industry’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier.