Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he is investigating the Chinese-founded e-commerce giant, while Senator Tom Cotton encouraged Attorney General Pam Bondi to do the same.

The European Union's ombudswoman said she found several "procedural shortcomings" in the way the European Commission handled legislative proposals like the omnibus bill.

Eileen Fisher, Everlane and Reformation join forces to reduce supply chain emissions, setting a collaborative example for sustainable fashion practices.

I said it and I'm glad.

Dang, just saw my old Rainbow Brite sheets on "Stranger Things."

When the right to freedom of association is systematically throttled in countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, abusive working conditions, excessive working hours and poverty wages become normalized.

In its second position paper, the T2T Alliance urges a reshaping of the European Union's Circular Economy Act to include provisions that set textile recyclers up for success.

Re&Up’s general manager Andreas Dorner discusses the challenges of operating in today’s geopolitical quagmire.

The move comes after the discovery of banned weapons and childlike sex dolls on Shein's platform.

Is there no end in sight for AI slop?

The corporate sustainability due diligence directive and the forced labor regulation were designed to be complementary. The omnibus bill risks decoupling them.

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A bipartisan group of 34 members from the House of Representatives expressed concern that the e-commerce leviathan may have facilitated the sale of “sex dolls with a childlike appearance” to customers in the United States.

The International Labour Organization and the government of Telangana recently launched a program that will take a "area-based approach" to tackle underage labor in agricultural supply chains.

I would like journalism to be 30 percent less cringe right now.

The withhold release order on Firemount Group cited information that "reasonably indicates forced labor use" in violation of U.S. trade statute.

While the latest Better Buying analysis shows less of the "acute crisis" that characterized Covid-19, its middling scores are still indicative of broader issues that undermine supply chain resilience.

With the European Parliament's position on the omnibus package declared, the showdown over the corporate sustainability due diligence directive and corporate sustainability reporting directive officially begins.

The total sum is potentially the largest received by a garment worker in the global South relating to freedom of association violations.

The partnership represents "a shift in our materials strategy and how we source," the Swoosh said.

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Is the term a matter of semantics? Or does the industry need to rally around a more accurate description of the problem?

The e-tail Goliath was already facing a hailstorm of criticism before all of this took place. The childlike sex dolls that were found for sale on its website have intensified the outrage.

The United Nations Environmental Programme warned that an overshoot of the 1.5-degree-Celsius warming limit is all but inevitable over the next decade.

As significant as the Trump administration's focus on transshipment could be for large importers, small to medium-sized brands that haven't looked at their supply chains too closely could take a drubbing.

As the industry has changed over the years, so too has H&M Foundation's tentpole program for early-stage ideas evolved.

Clauses mentioning commitments to prevent forced labor and other workplace abuse were a surprising addition among typical asks like improved market access. But can they be enforced?

REI isn’t just America’s largest specialty outdoor retailer. It's also a marketplace that stocks a sprawling number of brands besides its own.

The so-called First Information Reports, filed during the 2023 minimum wage protests in Bangladesh, threatened 48,000 garment workers with the possibility of false arrest for anything from vandalism to attempted murder.

It's been a year of U-turns for Brussels, not least on legislation meant to hold large corporations operating within the European Union accountable for their environmental and social impacts.

The protracted clash last week, which Pacific Jeans Group characterized as an "illegal strike," resulted in 27 workers being injured.

Innovating textile-to-textile technology was also only the beginning, said Peter Majeranowski and Patrik Frisk, the CEOs of Circ and Reju, at Textile Exchange's annual conference.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said that the Central American nation's "unreasonable" labor and human rights policies are actionable under a section of the 1974 Trade Act.

Trump officials said that the United States could take action against countries that supported the measure, including initiating antitrust probes and imposing additional port fees and other penalties on their ships.

This would impose pressures on employment that could disproportionately affect the livelihoods of tens of thousands of low-skilled workers and women.

Imagining what I could accomplish if I didn't suffer from seasonal allergies.

Are augmented reality activations and "fashion zombies" what it takes to drive consumer awareness—and action—about the problems of overproduction and overconsumption?

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department said that China does not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating human trafficking, nor is it making significant efforts to do so.

Whether companies are rolling back their climate commitments has been a bone of contention for an industry beset with economic and geopolitical turbulence.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

The September disaster has laid waste to 2.2 million hectares of cropland, devastating 60 percent of central and southern Punjab’s rice crop, 35 percent of its cotton and 30 percent of its sugarcane.

When Industrial Hana, a subcontractor for several major brands, abruptly shuttered in October 2023, nearly 250 workers were left without $1.5 million in owed severance.

The HELP and HOPE acts helped create tens of thousands of jobs by attracting prominent American brands to source duty-free garments from Haiti. Losing them could spell disaster.

The Footwear Collective and Goodwill Southern California have joined forces to collect 30,000 pounds of end-of-life shoes for testing, with an eye on figuring out how they can best be recovered and funneled to secondary markets at scale.

Everyone wants a more sustainable fashion industry, but few are willing to dig into their own pockets to make it happen. Is change possible?

The latest edition of Global Fashion Agenda's CEO Agenda lists as "cross-cutting accelerators" innovation, capital, incentives, regulation and courage.

Without electrification—particularly the use of what's known as clean heat—renewable targets run the risk of being feeble and ineffective, a new report says.

Forests—and the climate—cannot afford another year of inaction, said Canopy CEO Nicole Rycroft.

Anne-Laure Descours, former chief sourcing officer at Puma, is joining Haelixa, a Swiss DNA-marking traceability firm, as a board member.

Researchers found that Indigenous territories can effectively reduce the risk of vector-borne or zoonotic diseases if they’re located in municipalities with at least 40% forest cover.