With the Oscars just a few days away, the Brit Awards 2013 mark the last few red carpet moments before Sunday’s grand finale. The excitement is building to a fever pitch, to say the least. The annual music awards show included some of the world’s most famous musical artists. While we won’t be seeing them at the Oscars, they certainly used this moment to shine. With a more relaxed dress code, many of the attendees experimented with new styles slightly outside of their comfort zone. Taylor Swift

If there’s one thing you can count on London Fashion Week for, it’s newness. While the other three headlining fashion week cities (they would be New York, Milan and Paris, if you needed a refresher) are largely responsible for creating the viable trends of any given season, London is known as the breeding ground for new talent, new technologies and new wild ideas that are sure to become trends way into the future. The Fall 2013 show season was no different, as the various London Fashion Week sho

The officials of the 25 garment companies awarded for being environmentally-compliant pose with Commerce Minister GM Quader, BGMEA President Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin and IFC-SEDF Country Manager Kyle Kelhofer at the Westin Hotel in Dhaka yesterday.Photo: STAR Twenty-five garment factories were awarded yesterday for being environmentally-compliant by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association and SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility. The BGMEA and SEDF selected the award

On Feb. 14, two Indonesian workers accompanied by their translator, Rebecca Gluckstein, came to Wayne State to tell their story of the Adidas corporation’s refusal to pay almost $2 million dollars in severance pay to their workers at a factory called PT Kizone. PT Kizone was a clothing factory located in Tangerang, Indonesia that produced clothing for Adidas, according to a United Students Against Sweatshops flyer. The factory employed about 2,800 workers, most of whom were paid $0.60 per hour o

Consumers and activists across Europe are mobilising on the streets and on social media this week to ask high street fashion brands to support a minimum wage increase for garment workers in Cambodia. The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) will collect petition signatures outside popular stores in London and other European cities, asking brands to support a higher minimum wage for workers in their Cambodian production facilities. The campaign seeks an increase to a minimum monthly wage of US$150 for

In recent years, as China replaced Japan as the second largest trading country in the world, and became the second largest industrial manufacturing country in the world after the United States, its international status as the "world factory" is gradually solidified. However, compared with 10 years ago, China's labor cost advantage has significantly weakened. Part of the manufacturing industry is shifting to Southeast Asia. Coupled with accelerated process of "re-industrialization" in developed

Minster of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi Saudi downstream industries are still restricted despite tremendous revenue generated by the petrochemical industry in Saudi Arabia. Minster of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi announced recently that total production in petrochemical industry is expected to exceed 80 million tons in 2015. The announcement was made during the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association Forum in Dubai. Al-Naimi also said that he expected

The Mozambican Agriculture Ministry in December of last year launched a pilot agricultural insurance programme for cotton producers and companies that promote the crop in two districts of Nampula province, said a ministry official. Osvaldo Catine, head of the Department for Studies and Projects of the Agriculture Ministry, said that the insurance was part of the Strategic Plan for Development of the Agricultural Sector and is intended to protect rural workers and increase investments in this a

Joining the ranks of Beach Bunny sensations Kate Upton, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Candice Swanepoel, Cameron Russell, Chrissy Teigen and the Kardashians, Sports Illustrated cover model Irina Shayk is back for a second time with the swimwear brand and armed with hot design collaboration, Irina Shayk for Beach Bunny. The season begins with Irina shooting Beach Bunny’s Spring Lady Lace and Bronze campaigns that are shot under the simmering sun by world renowned photographer Yu Tsai. Unveiling t

Now a partnership between Oxfam, Marks and Spencer and Glasgow Caledonian University is setting out to cut the huge amount of clothes which end up in landfill. For the first time, a University partner has hosted a ‘shwopping’ event in conjunction with M&S and leading charity Oxfam. Staff and students at GCU’s post-graduate London campus were the first to benefit from the University’s tie-up and ‘shwopped’ their unwanted items for M&S vouchers during a Valentine’s Day event. Shwo