Despite more than a decade of hard-won progress, the work of ensuring safe factories is far from over.

Rising oil costs are driving up polyester prices, adding pressure on brands like Shein that rely heavily on synthetic materials.

The Australian activewear brand will be incorporating the innovator's enzymatically recycled nylon 6,6 into key product categories, including leggings, bike shorts and running bras.

As the world gets warmer and garment workers in the global South continue to bear the brunt of rising temperatures, protecting them has never been more urgent.

A Dutch lawsuit is accusing the denim giant of ethics-washing worker rights at a Turkish supplier, while U.S. shareholders demand it axe "climate hoax" goals.

Doing so will not only strengthen ties between manufacturers and designers, but also ensure the Big Apple's historic garment ecosystem can "continue to call New York City home."

My husband, browsing BritBox: Hey, they have Pride & Prejudice Me: *stares in 'Sir, I own the 1995 series box set and the 2005 movie, are you kidding me'*

"Behind each closure: jobs lost, communities affected, strategic capabilities gone," Euratex wrote in its latest economic update.

The nonprofit commissioned environmental analyses of mechanically recycled cotton yarn, thermomechanically recycled polyester yarn and chemically recycled polyester chips.

The near-identical lawsuits claim the companies could recoup hundreds of millions of dollars from CBP—money their consumers are now entitled to.

The agency alleged, however, that the shoemaker used a Dominican Republic factory to produce uppers for some shoes and sourced outsoles from Brazil since May 2023.

The investigation will examine whether the athleticwear giant's apparel contains PFAS or "forever chemicals" that customers wouldn't expect given its wellness-focused marketing.

After stepping down from People Tree in 2015, eco-fashion pioneer Safia Minney is back with a new clothing label that doubles down on organic, fair-trade and artisanal craft.

H&M has always been a study in contradictions, but a new Insights Board that excludes garment workers risks full cognitive dissonance.

Born out of the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, the activism group that asked "Who Made My Clothes?" is shutting down its London headquarters in favor of decentralized governance for its global affiliates.

Please clap—and pray for my editor—I just finished writing a 3,500-word story.

*breathing into a paper bag*

Workers' rights and climate rights are part of the same grand struggle, Kim Kelly explains in our Spring issue, WORKING THE LAND. Extraction—of labor, of resources—benefits exactly one group of people, and it’s not the worker.

Etsy, the online marketplace best known for handmade and small-batch goods will ban the sale of all animal fur, regardless of age or origin, on Aug. 11.

Occasionally, I think about how I almost went to Svalbard instead of Sweden for my study-abroad semester and somewhere in the multiverse, there's a version of me who knows how to fend off polar bear attacks while hitting the accelerator of a snowmobile.

The satirical brand included a real London pop-up with real clothing made with wind and solar power.

Syre is teaming up with Swiss-Swedish company ABB and Japan’s JAPLAN Group to make its first commercial-scale plant a reality.

A new analysis by three Dutch civil-society groups argues that brand promises of ethical workplaces can mislead consumers.

In a survey of Tamil Nadu and Delhi-NCR garment workers, 87 percent reported heat-related ailments such as headaches and dizziness over the past year.

The Land Grant Research Prioritization Act of 2026 would boost R&D for advanced agricultural innovations, including mechanization.

As growing temperatures endanger worker wellbeing, three factories in Cambodia and Vietnam are treating cooling as an operational imperative.

Can a controversial concept help biobased polyester scale? A consortium of brands, manufacturers, standards setters and impact groups aims to find out.

A new report offers evidence of worker exploitation at a Chinese factory that exclusively manufactures Labubu for the Hong Kong-listed company Pop Mart.

A new World Benchmarking Alliance report suggests that many public-facing policies remain largely untethered to operational reality.

Indonesia says it's putting off ratifying the reciprocal trade agreement, while Malaysia may or may not have axed its own.

More than 90,000 products—including pantry staples, health and beauty items, over-the-counter medications, toys, clothing and electronics—will be available nationwide.

The Willbes factory in Port-au-Prince terminated four pregnant workers and nine union leaders, potentially breaching Haitian labor law protections and Gap Inc.'s code of conduct.

The move follows a tranche of similar investigations launched a day earlier into excess manufacturing capacity in more than a dozen countries.

Yarn output rose more than 20 percent and 46,800 new jobs were created in the past year alone, an official from the northwestern province said.

The next tariff tempest is brewing, with the Office of the United States Trade Representative announcing Section 301 investigations into more than a dozen U.S. trading partners.

The Apparel Impact Institute's Carbon and Energy Benchmark seeks to move past generic factory assessments and achieve "apples-to-apples" comparisons at the process level.

The conference, themed "The Next Moves: Bold Ideas, Smart Futures," arrived at a moment of intense geopolitical tumult.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is preparing its Automated Commercial Environment system to electronically process reimbursements, but it'll take time.

Democrat-led states such as California and New York say that the White House’s justifications for using Section 122 to impose tariffs of up to 15 percent for 150 days don’t fall under its limited use scenarios.

After a stretch of false starts and major hurdles, the two are ready for their second act together, with Circulose joining Spinnova’s growing consortium to scale up its cellulosic pulp-to-fiber technology.

But after this "transition point" comes the overarching question: Will there be demand for the products?

My daughter's negotiation with one of our cats over the timing of his dinner—she wants to stick to the usual timing; he wants to be fed earlier—is the toughest trade talk I've ever encountered. Lots of screaming on both sides. Very uncivil.

It also follows "very strong" fourth-quarter revenue of nearly $3 billion and $21.2 billion in full-year gross merchandise volume

Better Buying's data shows that when commercial pressures reach a breaking point, the risk of unauthorized subcontracting, excessive overtime and other workers’ rights violations can also increase.

European Union member states have granted their final consent to the simplification of sustainability reporting rules and due diligence requirements.

South Asia's largest apparel-tech manufacturer seeks to move from primarily cut-and-sew production toward expanded knitting, dyeing and finishing.

In a rare public speech, Shein founder and CEO Xu Yangtian outlined the e-tail giant's ambitions for a "smart supply chain system" in Guangdong Province.

Patagonia's SoHo store aims to become the outdoor retailer's first unionized outlet in the eastern United States.

New Jersey factories, Oregon ranches and L.A. knitwear producers are dressing Team U.S.A.—and future-proofing U.S. manufacturing.

With a 2025 trade deficit that is down just 0.2 percent from the year before, according to official data, the United States has far from ceded its position as a net importer.