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EU-India Free Trade negotiations

Today the European Commission released its long-awaited Strategy for Sustainable Textile, with the ambition to move the sector towards the path of sustainability. EURATEX welcomes the EU ambitions to act on sustainable textiles and investments, in order to change how textiles are made, chosen and recovered. Many European companies have already...

4 Aug 2022

BusinessFeatured

River Island unveils its 'The Kind Society' sustainability strategy

British retailer River Island has unveiled its sustainability strategy, ‘The Kind Society,’ featuring 12 key commitments, aligned to the United Nations Sustainability Goals, focusing on the “four Ps” - people, planet, principles and partners. “Kindness goes beyond compliments and favours. At River Island, kindness is about us, as a business,...

3 Aug 2022

RetailFeatured

Amazon's carbon footprint soared by 18 percent last year, fuelled by pandemic shopping and expansion

The world’s largest online retailer is facing colossal challenges to reduce its carbon footprint. A surge in pandemic shopping showed Amazon’s 2021 carbon emissions grew 18 percent. As the e-commerce behemoth aims to grow its businesses, so does its footprint. Despite the electrical vehicles it uses for some of its deliveries; a switch to...

3 Aug 2022

Business

Säntis Textiles partners with Ciel to expand recycled cotton yarn

Global sustainable fabric and technology specialists Säntis Textiles is partnering with Ciel Textile to bring 100 percent recycled cotton yarns to its international brands. The new venture is set to expand the circular economy, utilising Säntis Textiles’ first-of-its-kind recycling technology. RCO100 works by converting pre-consumer industrial...

3 Aug 2022

Retail |Interview Featured

Retail analyst Nikki Baird’s consumer predictions through end of year

As high inflation raises the prices of gas and bills, consumers will be faced with tough spending decisions as seasons change, kids go back-to-school and budgets are weighed for holiday gifting. FashionUnited speaks with Nikki Baird, former retail analyst and Vice President of Strategy at Aptos, about how our purses will be impacted during the...

2 Aug 2022

Fashion Featured

Safilo expands use of sustainable materials and joins The Fashion Pact

Eyewear manufacturer and distributor Safilo have joined The Fashion Pact to commit to environmental goals to stop global warming, restore biodiversity and protect the oceans as part of its purpose-led sustainability strategy. The Fashion Pact is a global coalition of companies in the fashion and textile industry, including ready-to-wear, sport,...

1 Aug 2022

Fashion

Nanushka introduces a new alternative to leather in its collections

Budapest-based contemporary label Nanushka, part of the Vanguards Group, has introduced an exclusive alternative leather fabrication to its collections, which is free from animal skin and the use of animal derivatives. Okobor, exclusive to Nanushka, is made from 56 percent recycled polyester and 44 percent polyurethane and produced using a...

1 Aug 2022

Fashion |In Pictures

Boden launches sustainable ‘Remix Edit’

Fashion and lifestyle brand Boden has launched a new limited-edition sustainable collection made from off-cuts of its most loved styles for women and children. With a belief that “clothes should last a lifetime” and no Boden clothes should end up in landfill, Boden has created a new repurposed capsule collection utilising fabric roll-ends to...

21 Jul 2022

FairsFeatured

Science fiction influences shape the future of leather

Science fiction is a tool for ambitious thinkers. This was the message running through the leather trend presentation at Lineapelle in NYC last week. But just as science fiction is difficult to define, ambiguity is omnipresent in trend forecasting with references to science, technology, AI and human exploration, and the enormous global...

18 Jul 2022

Fashion

Côte&Ciel partners with sustainability platform Responsible

French accessories brand Côte&Ciel has launched a one-off limited collection with sustainable resell platform Responsible for spring/summer 2022. The collection features one of Côte&Ciel’s popular designs, the split and full leather ‘Nile’ backpack, which has been refurbished by Responsible’s repair specialists to showcase how a circular future...

13 Jul 2022

Business |Opinion Featured

The New Transparency coming to fashion: regulations as a baseline for communicating sustainability

Hundreds of sustainability labels and schemes are crippling the apparel and footwear industry. This brouhaha prevents consumers and citizens from properly understanding the impact of the piece of garment that they are buying. But those same consumers are hungry for information, and the industry is hungry to provide. The EU Commission is...

12 Jul 2022

Business

Sustainability round-up June 2022

As the year progresses, there is one buzz word that keeps cropping up every month - greenwashing. Nobody wants to do it yet somebody is doing it as an industry watchdog recently revealed that fashion brands account for a quarter of all greenwashing complaints. At Shoptalk Europe 2022 at the beginning of the month, British designer Anya Hindmarch...

11 Jul 2022