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.
"Major Fashion Brands Are Trying to Stop Their Factories in Turkey from Exploiting Syrian Refugees" (Quartz)
"As Syrian refugees continue to pour into Turkey, desperate for any source of income, many are taking jobs in Turkey's garment industry."
"Am I a Fool to Expect More than Corporate Greenwashing?" (The Guardian)
"H&M is launching a recycling week that clashes with a campaign to help exploited workers."
"Women Workers Exploited in India's High End Shoe Industry, Say Campaigners" (Reuters)
"India's growing shoe industry relies on women who work from home, earn less than the minimum wage and lack any legal rights."
"Etsy Wants to Crochet Its Cake, and Eat It Too" (The Cut)
"Can a company upend capitalism without really earning a profit?"
"Let Them Weave Their Own" (The Economist)
"By 2019 the EAC wants to outlaw imports of second-hand clothes. The idea is that ending the trade in old clothes—mostly donated by their former owners in rich countries—will help boost local manufacturing."
Europe’s Parliament has signed off rules that will make brands more accountable for what happens in their supply chains, ban products made with forced labour and set new environmental standards for the design and disposal of products.
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.