A just-published report by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) has presented the unique characteristics of Italian fashion manufacturing, while exploring the current perceptions and challenges regarding pay equity within one of Europe’s most influential fashion industries.

The UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) has come out with a report that aims to encourage innovators, brands, retailers and manufacturers to work together so that the industry can collectively achieve environmental impact reduction goals.

Major fashion brands are using greater amounts of polluting synthetic textiles, a survey of 50 global firms— representing $1 trillion in market value and spanning fast fashion, sports, luxury and supermarket own-brands — reveals greater dependence on synthetic fibres that are driving fast fashion, and use of fossil fuel industry tactics, says a report by the Changing Markets Foundation.

As the world looks for innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions and preserve vital ecosystems, environmental NGO Canopy underscores the critical role India can play in this global shift as it has the potential to transform 100 million tonnes of agricultural residues and polyester-cotton textile waste into valuable low-carbon paper, packaging, and viscose for the global markets.

Worldly, the leading supply chain sustainability insights and data platform, has launched the first of its kind innovative Product Impact Calculator that would enable apparel and consumer goods companies to quickly get actionable, auditable, and granular Scope 3 measurements of their product lines.

UKFT has launched a competition for fashion and textile small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in the UK or those that place products in the UK market to help develop an intelligent, fair and balanced EPR fee system for Britain.

A new report that chronicles New York City’s ascent as a fashion capital over nearly two centuries as well as its struggles in recent years warns that without collective action from both industry and government, there is a grave risk of losing fashion’s defining contributions to the city’s economy, culture, and brand.

The Australian Fashion Council has said that the kangaroo country’s fashion manufacturing industry has shed 18% of its value in the past five years but despite the downturn, key policy interventions, industry and government can together inject an additional $225m into the Victorian economy and create a further 1,500 jobs.

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has launched the ‘VisioNxt Fashion Forecasting Initiative’, a bilingual web portal and the India-specific fashion trend book ‘Paridhi 24x25’.

Open Lab, a 20,000 sq ft facility, launched by the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) and the H&M Foundation, is set to become a global hub for sustainable innovation, focusing on climate action and industry-wide collaboration to showcase solutions and ongoing research to enable industry to quickly adjust, iterate, pilot and scale faster.