American Apparel & Footwear Association

Extreme heat has become a growing workplace safety concern across global apparel, footwear and travel goods supply chains, prompting new operational guidance for factories, buyers and suppliers. The recommendations cover heat thresholds, structural mitigation, workload adjustment, education, medical monitoring, shared buyer-supplier responsibility, and compliance with labour and public health codes.

Re-strategise, re-set, upskill, go compliant, build in agility and resilience—these should be the mantras for the footwear industry as it gears up in the next 89 days for the final dictum from the White House. And yeah, US+1 will work here too. And that could well be here’s looking at you India!

Perspectives are varied, and it is not an open-and-shut case against US Prez Donald Trump as his political opponents would have us believe. The tariff calculations could be questionable and the unilateral announcement should be decried, but what’s amply clear is this: trade will never be the same again.

There is feasibility and value in engaging in circular, textile-to-textile recycling systems for cotton, as also benefits for all involved stakeholders, affirms Accelerating Circularity's much-anticipated Global Cotton Report.

Digital labelling is the need of the hour and a global coalition of stakeholders in the textile-fashion-footwear-accessories sector has called for supranational, national and local authorities to update outdated, inflexible, and complex labelling requirements to empower consumers with accessible information through greener e-labelling.

Registrations have opened for the 2023 edition of International Apparel Federation’s (IAF) annual convention to be held 22-25 October in Philadelphia.

The International Apparel Federation (IAF) and the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) have signed an MoU, underlining a renewed commitment to bring industry players together across the global supply chain.