Visits: 17 PITTSBURGH / MEMPHIS – Fashion retailer American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) has become a member of the US Cotton Trust Protocol in a bid to provide greater transparency of its sustainability progress. The company believes membership of the trust …
Amer Sports partners with Sourcemap
Visits: 21 NEW YORK – Amer Sports, which owns brands including Arc’teryx, Salomon and Wilson, has linked up with traceability solutions provider Sourcemap to verify the company’s entire chain of custody from raw material to finished product. Amer Sports will …
UAL continues student circularity push
Visits: 19 LONDON – University of Arts London, home to the London College of Fashion, has introduced Re-Use units to its campuses as it seeks to instil in students a focus on circularity. Existing users sign in Register here: Continue Reading
Kidswear brand launches donations service
Visits: 18 LONDON – Childrenswear brand Britannical London has launched a new donations service through which customers are incentivised to offload unwanted coats with the promise of discounts. The Re:Coat initiative is deemed complementary to the British business’ sustainability …
Vegan footwear start-up secures funding
Visits: 17 VANCOUVER – Canadian footwear start-up Grounded People, which uses only recycled, vegan materials in its products, has secured CAN$2.5 million in funding from Vancouver’s Right Season Investments Corporation. The shoe brand, launched in late 2021, believes the …
Textiles industry ‘neglects E and S of ESG’
Visits: 20 LONDON – The shareholder meetings of retailers in the textile industry are too focused on governance, to the exclusion of environmental and social proposals, according to a new study by the Planet Tracker financial think tank. Researchers examined …
Fashion brands ‘among least trustworthy’
Visits: 17 SALFORD – The majority of British consumers don’t believe that companies’ environmental claims are credible with fashion brands regarded as among the least trustworthy, according to a new survey. The poll of 1,682 adults across the UK by …
New owners take over Kings of Indigo
Visits: 22 AMSTERDAM – Sustainable denim brand Kings of Indigo, which filed for bankruptcy in November, has been taken over by Kathrin and Sebastian Proft, the owners of three sustainable fashion companies in Germany and Austria. The entrepreneurial couple took …
Copenhagen Fashion Week publishes targets update
Visits: 18 COPENHAGEN – The team behind Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW) has announced that it met 35 of the 37 targets set out in its ‘Sustainability Action Plan 2020-2022’. Notably, the organisation says it’s made progress in phasing out single-use …
Zara launches kids’ Jeans Redesign collection
Visits: 20 ARTEIXO – Inditex-owned fashion brand Zara has released a circular denim collection for babies and children under the principles of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign programme. Zara, which launched a Jeans Redesign collection for women earlier this …