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Fashion

The Xinjiang cotton controversy has taken to the catwalk

The Xinjiang cotton-gate impasse has taken another turn, this time on the catwalk, as Chinese designers are pledging its use in their collections. At the end of China Fashion Week in March, Chinese brand Sun-Bird’s creative director Zhou Li took a bow at the end of her show – demonstratively holding a bouquet of cotton plants. Solidarity with...

Apr. 7, 2021

Retail

Inditex accused of turning a blind eye amid rising tensions in China boycott crisis

On Thursday, China, backed by the Chinese government itself, started retaliating against the Western boycott of cotton produced in the ‘Uyghur labor camps’ of Xinjiang, calling for its own boycott against international fashion companies. The boycott primarily affected Swedish retail giant H&M on Thursday, but is now also being launched against...

Mar. 26, 2021

Fashion

Ralph Lauren unveils scalable zero-wastewater cotton dyeing system

Ralph Lauren Corporation has launched Color on Demand, a “revolutionary” dyeing platform that aims to transform the way the fashion industry colors cotton. The multi-phased system dyes cotton more sustainably, more effectively and faster than other methods, according to the brand, and aims to eventually deliver “the world’s first scalable zero...

Mar. 23, 2021

Fashion

Superdry brings forward organic cotton targets by five years

Superdry has brought forward its organic cotton targets by five years. That means the British fashion retailer now aims for all of its pure cotton garments to be produced entirely from organic cotton by 2025. By that point, 65 percent of all garments that contain any amount of cotton will be derived from organic cotton sources. The target is...

Mar. 17, 2021

Business

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...

Jan. 13, 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...

Jan. 6, 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...

Dec. 22, 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...

Sep. 15, 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...

Feb. 13, 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...

Oct. 17, 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...

Jul. 25, 2019

Fairs |REPORT

Into the blue: Kingpins Transformers NY launches denim innovations

The indigo intelligentsia gathered yesterday to delve deep into the blue for the annual Kingpins Transformers New York summit, the prequel to the Kingpins 2-day trade show which will focus on the topic of Sustainable Development and Heritage within the denim market. Experts from brands such as G-Star and Wrangler mixed with manufacturers,...

Jun. 11, 2019