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Just Style Excellence Awards 2023: HKRITA
HKRITA - The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel is a body established in 2006 to provide applied …
Retail stores of the future will be more about entertainment by 2030 predicts analysts
Social media and the culture around influencers will lead the future of retail as brick and mortar stores move to …
Huue secures funding for “world’s first” clean indigo dye
Biotech start-up Huue has secured $14.6m in funding to launch what it claims is the world’s first clean and scalable …
China’s resilience shines through in index of world’s most vulnerable apparel supply chains
China has come out on top as having the most self-sufficient apparel and textile supply chains in the world in …
Three textile firms added to US Entity List update in Xinjiang forced labour link fears
The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), chaired by US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has added Xinjiang Zhongtai Group …
Shanghai CHIC autumn repositions itself as platform for fashion supply chain solutions
CHIC points out that it serves as an important international business platform for both the fashion industry and fashion trade …
Start-Rite shoes welcomes ‘agile’ investor to support growth ambitions
This funding by Reward will catalyse business transformation and drive revenue growth for Start-Rite along with aiding the shoe-maker in …
Tunisia clothing sector prospers in 2023 despite political discord
Since 2019 Tunisia President Kais Saied has suspended parliament, dismissed governments, imprisoned opposition leaders, undermined judicial independence and helped fuel …
EU ‘few steps ahead’ but stands ready to help US on green fashion legislation
During the Global Fashion Agenda in Boston, the head of global issues and innovation at the European Union Delegation to …
Just Style Excellence Awards 2023: HKRITA
HKRITA - The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel is a body established in 2006 to provide applied …
Retail stores of the future will be more about entertainment by 2030 predicts analysts
Social media and the culture around influencers will lead the future of retail as brick and mortar stores move to …
Huue secures funding for “world’s first” clean indigo dye
Biotech start-up Huue has secured $14.6m in funding to launch what it claims is the world’s first clean and scalable …
China’s resilience shines through in index of world’s most vulnerable apparel supply chains
China has come out on top as having the most self-sufficient apparel and textile supply chains in the world in …
Global Fashion Agenda sets five key 2030 targets for fashion brands
Denmark-based Global Fashion Agenda has set targets for fashion brand directors for the next seven years in its new Fashion …
Signal: Can mass customisation stop fashion overconsumption?
A team of researchers from Penn State Smeal College of Business published the Journal of Operations Management report, noting that consumers …
US reintroduces Shop Safe Act to prevent online counterfeits
AAFA president and CEO Steve Lamar says counterfeit goods often pose product safety and environmental risks, sidestep social responsibility and …
Amazon uses RFID to make in-store clothes shopping checkout-free
Amazon has adapted the use of its Just Walk Out in-store technology to include RFID, which is widely used for …
SAC, IAF collaborate to streamline audits, boost fashion’s green efforts
SAC and the IAF have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which looks to streamline social and environmental assessments that often …
US apparel sector voices concern over lifting of US-EU steel tariff suspension
Writing to US President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the letter asks for the retaliatory tariffs …
H&M Q3 profits rise, hot September dampens initial autumn sales
H&M says the hot weather in its European markets this September has delayed the start of the autumn shopping season, …
How to make fashion circularity profitable and sustainable
Fashion circularity is still treated as a quick fix - something to be done because of a push for innovation …
Signal: Fashion jobs sink in September as economy remains pressured
Global jobs across the fashion industry have gradually fallen over the three months to September with active jobs at 39,828 …
14 key recommendations from independent SAC Higg Index review
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) explains the focus of its first report, following the independent review of its Higg Materials …