It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Laudes Foundation

Climate Action / Bangladesh Transition

31 January 2025

5 minutes

The scenarios, co-created with a diversity of over 100 Bangladeshi and international stakeholders, serve as a reference point for navigating the urgency, complexity, and uncertainty around the impacts of Bangladesh industry’s climate transitions on its workers.

7 Interlinked Priorities Needed for Bangladesh's Transition to Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Future

A new report identifies likely scenarios for Bangladesh’s industrial sectors, and opportunities to accelerate just industry transitions both through direct grant-making and multistakeholder collaboration.

Special Correspondent

Report

Going Circular / Trade Aspects

9 December 2024

5 minutes

The EU has an opportunity to strengthen existing economic and trade partnership agreements with key textile trade partners to include commitments supporting collaborative actions.

Working Closely with Trade Partners Crucial to EU's Sustainable and Circular Textiles Economy

Failure to adequately consider the challenges faced by key trade partners to adapt to the ambitions of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles risks jeopardising the success of the strategy, a multi-country study into the potential effects of the strategy has concluded.

Staff Writer

Global Tool / World of Waste

8 November 2024

3 minutes

This initiative marks a significant step towards building a more transparent, collaborative, and circular fashion industry. By uniting key players from across the ecosystem, the project is not only addressing the pressing issue of textile waste but also unlocking its potential as a resource.

New Digital Tool Launched to Map Global Waste Hotspots for Recyclers and Innovators

Fashion for Good has launched a collaborative free centralised global tool that maps textile waste hotspots providing aggregated regional data on waste volume, composition, and type, enabling recyclers and innovators to efficiently identify and utilise the waste resources worldwide.

Staff Writer

Cotton Production / Cotton 2040 Impact

7 November 2024

5 minutes

Cotton 2040 worked towards aligning key players in the cotton system on the change needed, catalysing collaborative action to adapt to the changing climate, and empowering brands to embrace sustainable cotton.

Industry Needs to Hold Itself Accountable to Ensure the Rigour of Standards

The Cotton 2040 project of the charity Forum for the Future was a platform which aimed to accelerate progress and maximise the impact of existing sustainable cotton initiatives. A year after the platform published its Impact Report, texfash speaks to Neil Walker, Senior Sustainability Strategist, about the project's legacy.

Subir Ghosh

Interview

Cotton Farming / Narratives

4 April 2024

5 minutes

The media toolkit is not only for professionals in fashion and textile industries but also for editors and storytellers looking for on-the-ground stories ideas, as also climate and social justice activists looking to learn from holistic and community-centred solutions.

Cotton at the Source Project Gives Cotton Narratives a Much-Needed Boost

A media toolkit for cotton targets well-meaning journalists to write stories from the ground. texfash.com talks about that and stresses on the need for cotton trade associations to be a more open source for data and stories from the ground.

Subir Ghosh

Commentary

Going Circular / India Project

1 December 2023

3 minutes

It was in 2021 that Fashion for Good launched the Sorting for Circularity India Project to organise the Indian textile waste market in a three-phase approach to streamline, strengthen and foster the Indian textile waste market to drive the transition to a more circular economy that recaptures value to its maximum potential.

Textile Recovery Alliance Launched to Promote India as NextGen Solutions Hub

Fashion for Good has launched ‘Re-Start’, a textile recovery alliance in India, and released a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in the country.

Staff Writer

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

6 July 2023

3 minutes

The investment in Sri Kannapiran Mills will replace legacy equipment and add key machinery (new and used) across the spinning and post-spinning processes, including auto blenders, high speed rotor spinning machines, auto doffers for existing ring frames and high-speed winding machines.

Good Fashion Fund Partners with Sri Kannapiran Mills in India for Sustainability Linked Investment

Mumbai, India: The Good Fashion Fund, the Laudes Foundation and the Fashion for Good initiated fund, has made an investment in Sri Kannapiran Mills Limited - a leading Indian producer of cotton yarn and sustainable denim fabrics. The 2.5 million US Dollar loan will support Kannapiran Mills’ investment in the replacement and expansion of key...

Manufacturing / Clean Tech

6 December 2022

3 minutes

Solar panel installation at a Pratibha Syntex Limited facility. The $4.5 million investment committed by the Good Fashion Fund to Pratibha Syntex is to replace machinery in the spinning, processing, and garment divisions, as well as provide new equipment for the expansion of their activities and facilities.

Good Fashion Fund Impact in India Starts Showing Results with Pratibha Syntex Project

The first on-site monitoring visit after their USD 4.5 million investment, made in 2020, to Pratibha Syntex in India was held this week which already displayed fruitful results and positive financial, environmental, and social impact in Pratibha’s spinning, processing, and garment divisions.

Staff Writer

Under Cloud / Higg MSI

15 June 2022

7 minutes

Though allegations have been levelled at fashion giants, the SAC and the Higg Index find themselves in the eye of a storm for being the archangels of the 'sustainable fashion' ecosystem. The latter particularly has been under fire from critics for consistently downplaying natural fibres and instead promoting fossil fuel fashion (i.e polyster-driven fashion).

Back-to-Back News Reports Put Sustainability Archangels on the Back Foot

The Big Daddies in the textiles-apparel-footwear-fashion ecosystem are the hands behind some of the most followed sustainability benchmarks. The charge is that they have been using the cloak of opaqueness and secrecy and also the lack of credible data to greenwash themselves. texfash.com recaps the brouhaha.

Subir Ghosh

Commentary

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

2 May 2022

4 minutes

The keynote speaker of the event Preeti Maithil Nayak, IAS, Director, Farmer Welfare and Agriculture Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh lighting the lamp with Pramit Chanda-Global Director Textiles & Manufacturing, IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative, and member representatives of farmer producer organisations.

Indian, Global Brands Collaborate with Madhya Pradesh, Farmers, Civil Society to Promote Regenerative Agriculture

Bhopal, India: The Regenerative Production Landscape Collaborative (RPL Collaborative), founded by Laudes Foundation, IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative, and WWF India, has kickstarted the formation of public-private-community partnerships (Compacts) between Inditex, H&M Group, IKEA, Neutral, PepsiCo India, Sammunnati Finance, Jayanti Spices, INI...