Top stories this week on Just Style include a look at how domestic orders in India’s apparel industry have collapsed amid the country’s second Covid-19 wave, and why the global textile sector has been able to bounce back from adversity time and again. Elsewhere, a Uniqlo shipment has been blocked in the US over concerns its supply chain has links to Xinjiang in China, PVH Corp is joining a project to tackle undernutrition in female workers in Bangladesh, and a new report explores how the pandemic has impacted workers in the South Asian country’s garment sector.
Covid-19 surge puts India clothing sector on the rack
The ability of India’s clothing industry to serve overseas buyers has been devastated by the country’s ongoing second Covid-19 wave, with a collapse in domestic orders, workers fleeing urban areas and disrupted upstream supplies slashing industry capacity.
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From Field to Shelf – How textiles made the world
With the pandemic weighing so heavily on the textile and apparel industry, industry consultant Robert Antoshak wonders if there were lessons from the past that could help illuminate possibilities for the future. Indeed there are. After all, we’ve endured plagues, world wars, economic calamities, and much more – only to recover each time, changed perhaps, but intact and thriving.
US blocks Fast Retailing shipment on “Xinjiang links”
The US blocked a shipment from Fast Retailing’s Uniqlo brand in January on the back of concerns its supply chain has ties to forced labour in Xinjiang, China.
PVH to improve nutrition for Bangladesh’s female RMG workers
Apparel giant PVH Corp has embarked on a new partnership to help tackle undernutrition in the ready-made garment (RMG) industry by introducing essential nutrition services and support for working mothers and pregnant women in its suppliers’ factories in Bangladesh.
How the pandemic hit Bangladesh’s garment workers
The global pandemic meant the Bangladesh garment industry was hit by the closure of markets, suspended shipments, delayed payments and pay cuts, a new report has found, which offers recommendations for brands, unions and the government going forward.
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