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Panel discussion: Can common cotton claims be debunked?

Is cotton as bad as its reputation when it comes to water consumption, pesticide and insecticide dependency and land usage? A recent panel discussion titled “Cotton claims - the good, the bad and the nuanced” as part of the Truth Series by the Transformers Foundation - founded early last year as part of the global Kingpins Transformers trade...

13 Jan 2021

Fashion

Marks & Spencer signs call to action over forced labour in Xinjiang, China

Marks & Spencer has become one of the first companies to formally sign a call to action over human rights violations in Xinjiang, China, where Uighurs and other minority groups are reportedly being forced into manual labour. In December, a new report released by the Washington-based Center for Global Policy found that more than half a million...

6 Jan 2021

Business

Australia seeks safe haven for its cotton in South East Asia as tariff war with China escalate

The relationship between China and Australia continues to deteriorate, after a year-long escalation of veiled accusations, decreasing mutual trust and strangled trade agreements. Now, the Australian cotton industry faces the potential loss of its 611 million Australian dollars cotton trade to China. Australia’s cotton industry is fully reliant...

22 Dec 2020

Business

US blocks imports of cotton and textiles from Xinjiang

US Customs will block certain products from Xinjiang because Washington believes they were made in the Chinese autonomous region with the help of slave labour. This is a “modern form of slavery,” said the Ministry of Homeland Security on Monday. The US Government accused China of curtailing human and civil liberties and using forced labour to...

15 Sep 2020

Business

Cotton Ranking 2020: Widening gap between sustainability leaders and laggers

For the fourth time, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Solidaridad and the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) UK have analysed the largest cotton users (with around 10,000 tonnes of cotton/year) among international apparel brands and retailers according to their public objectives and policies, the share of sustainable cotton and transparency in their...

13 Feb 2020

Fashion

Acclaimed patternmaking academy, AICP, opens a campus in Uzbekistan

French know-how and fashion training, which is still expanding abroad, is being established in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The AICP (Académie Internationale de Coupe de Paris), the French school of excellence for patternmaking designers, opened a branch in this Central Asian country in early September due to a global focus on this new destination...

17 Oct 2019

Business

Cotton prices remain under pressure

Even though the trade dispute between the United States and China has moved away from escalation and towards reconciliation since the G20 meeting in June in Osaka, the consequences of this already year-long exchange of blows between two big players in the international cotton industry are clearly noticeable in the market. There are widespread...

25 Jul 2019

Fashion

How cotton picked with forced labor in Turkmenistan finds its way to the high street

A new report by Anti-Slavery International reveals how cotton picked with forced labor in Turkmenistan makes its way to high street shops across the world. Every year, tens of thousands of public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, are forced by the government to pick cotton at the harvest, under threat of punishment, according to...

8 Apr 2019

Business

Organic Cotton has a long way to go in Latin America

Everyday we see more global brands, like H&M, Inditex, or Nike, present new lines created with organic cotton. However, the product has yet to expand in terms of an increase in demand, global production, and awareness from consumers about clothes with sustainable production. The concept of organic cotton refers to those productions that follow a...

11 Oct 2018

Fashion

Supima show begins NYFW as contest enters second decade

The Supima design competition officially entered its second decade with its runway show on the opening day of NYFW. Vice President of Marketing & Promotions, Buxton Midyette, revealed to FashionUnited backstage that the contest has become more high-profile than ever, not least because they have partnered with that esteemed European competition...

7 Sep 2018

Business

H&M Foundation and HKRITA to open textile recycling facilities in Hong Kong

The H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) have announced the opening of two textile recycling facilities which will put HKRITA’s hydrothermal method for recycling cotton and polyester blends to use. Blends are the most used type of textile in the world -- yet, they are still unrecyclable. “This is a...

5 Sep 2018

Business

US bans imports of cotton from Turkmenistan after forced labor complaint

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, has formally banned the importation of “all cotton or cotton products produced in whole or in part with Turkmenistan cotton”. The decision, published on the agency’s website earlier this week, comes two months after non-profit organizations Cotton...

25 May 2018