PHILADELPHIA – Fashion brand Urban Outfitters has partnered with circular non-profit FabScrap to help scale the organisation and in turn reduce the volume of waste within its supply chain.The companies have worked together since 2019, first focusing on how to remove waste from the brand’s knitting, sample and pattern-making rooms.Urban Outfitters is now committed to supporting its partner’s growth, and is offering a working capital grant as well as a new facility in Philadelphia from which it wi

DALLAS – US department store chain Neiman Marcus has established an Environment Social Governance (ESG) team in a bid to support its sustainability ambitions.This collective will be tasked with accelerating the group’s work if it’s to meet its outstanding environmental targets.Chief executive officer Geoffroy van Raemdonck said: “As the preeminent luxury customer platform, it’s our responsibility to take action and address sustainability issues for our associates, customers, investors, and the f

After years of making moves to become more sustainable, US fashion brand Frame denim launched a circular denim capsule collection, intended as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’sJeans Redesignproject.This initiative is Frame denim’s latest step in the last 2 years placed on integrating more sustainability into its products and operations. Frame denim is ready to map out official goals and be more vocal about its prioritization of conscious processes in terms of sustainability.Figure: US fas

LONDON – UK waste recycling charity WRAP has launched the Textiles 2030 project which it describes as the world's most ambitious ten-year environmental programme for clothing and textiles.Major high street names including Boohoo, Asos, M&S, Next, Primark, John Lewis, Sainsbury’s, Ted Baker, Tesco, ASDA and Dunelm have signed up to the voluntary initiative.Over the next decade, the agreement aims to slash the environmental impact of UK clothing and home fabrics through practical intervent

FC Index of Keqiao’s textile on April 26th was 107.87, up 0.06% from the prior week, up 3.27% compared with the beginning of 2021, and up 3.57% compared with the same period last year.Marketing of spring market of China Textile City rises slightly this week. Amount price of raw material market drops slightly compared with last week, amount price of grey cloth market rises slightly, amount price of garment fabric market’s cloth rises slightly, transaction amount price of home textile products ris

Standard Textile has announced that it has been selected as a 2021 US Best Managed company. Sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, the programme recognises outstanding US private companies and the achievements of their management teams. The company is a provider of total solutions in the institutional textiles and apparel markets.Pic: Standard TextileThe 2021 designees are US private companies that have demonstrated excellence in strategic planning and execution, a commitment

Consumer behaviour has changed significantly in 2020 and consumers are now choosing to shop more consciously.Image Courtesy: arabnews.comThis was distinctly revealed in Farfetch’s maiden annualConscious Luxury Trends Report.The British clothing e-tailer, in its report, said that the sale of conscious products has risen 3.4 times faster than the marketplace average over 2020.Another notable aspect has been that traffic to conscious pages on Farfetch.com too jumped by 4 times year-over year (Y-o-Y

BRANDE – The Name It and Selected brands of Danish retailer Bestseller have become the first to adopt Cotton made in Africa’s (CmiA) organic cotton, demonstrating the company’s ongoing work to increase its uptake of more ‘sustainable’ materials.Image credit: BestsellerEarlier this month, Bestseller vowed to support farmers going organic with a new commitment of enrolling ‘in-conversion’ cotton into its portfolio.This project, in partnership with CmiA, will look to build on this, with Name It’s s

CALIFORNIA – US fashion brand Frame has become the second signatory of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign Project to develop a collection which meets the initiative’s strict guidelines.It follows Tommy Hilfiger, which last month launched its product range, in developing denim that is durable, traceable and easier to recycle.Frame has said it intends to apply its learnings to future collections, and has pledged to making 80 per cent of its apparel 'sustainably' by 2022.Source

SAN FRANCISCO – New Zealand-American footwear brand Allbirds has made its own carbon calculating tool open-source for the fashion industry.The registered B Corp said “sharing proprietary information might not make the most business sense. But the global climate crisis is bigger than business. And if competition got us into this mess, perhaps collaboration can get us out”.It has sent an email to contacts at brands such as Adidas, Burberry, Levi’s, H&M and Gucci to alert them that they too can