Target Corporation

Fashion for Good has launched the Beyond50 Denim project with Bestseller, C&A, PDS Limited, Reformation and Target, combining SEFF’s cottonised hemp and Fibre52 chemistry to overcome handfeel barriers. With mills Bossa and Nice Denim involved, the initiative will rigorously test whether higher hemp content can match cotton’s performance in denim.

A new assessment of 100 top fashion brands reveals limited momentum in sustainable cotton adoption, widespread failures in transparency, and rising dependence on fossil-derived fibres. The Cotton Rankings 2025, developed by Solidaridad and Good on You, expose stark contrasts between industry rhetoric and practice, highlighting how sourcing decisions shape cotton’s uncertain role in fashion..

Fashion for Good has launched a collaborative ambitious initiative aimed at accelerating the next generation of footwear innovations needed to drive circularity spanning four workstreams across the supply chain from materials to end of use.

Fashion for Good and Textile Exchange have launched a two-year, multi-stakeholder initiative to harmonise data and system capabilities in the reverse supply chain. A key objective is to deliver recommendations for the development of new and existing standards, including the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and Recycled Claim Standard (RCS).

By decoding why cotton grows better in space than on Earth, a research team could well be writing a new chapter in farming, one that enhances our crops on the ground and in space.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has launched a Manufacturer Climate Action Program (MCAP) to help the textile industry reduce GHG emissions by 2030.

Target Corporation would be a new lead funder of the $250 million Fashion Climate Fund of the Apparel Impact Institute, which is working towards meeting the fashion industry's step towards reducing carbon emissions.