Following discussions with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inditex, the Spanish operator of brands such as Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, and Bershka, has agreed to make its temporary ban on angora a permanent one.
After thousands of garment workers rallied across Phnom Penh last week to renew demands for higher wages, eight of the world’s leading fashion retailers said they are willing to pay more for clothes made in Cambodia.
To celebrate this month’s Earth Day on the 22nd April, the Stella McCartney brand announced that it will be joining the likes of Zara & H&M on Canopy’s Fashion Loved by Forest Campaign which promotes not using endangered forests for the production of viscose.
H&M and Zara are against deforestation. The world’s largest fashion retailers – Zara represented by it’s holding company, Inditex – have pledged to develop new sourcing strategies to eliminate the use of endangered-forest fibers in all of their rayon and viscose clothing.
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is a result of textile companies being under increasing pressure to ensure that their products are ethically produced, ethically sourced and purchased from factories that have humane working conditions as well as adequate safety regulations.
Burberry announced on Tuesday its decision to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its global supply chain products by 2020.
Shocking undercover footage of alleged rabbit abuse in China may have prompted several of the world’s biggest apparel brands and retailers to declare a moratorium on sourcing angora products, but at least one bold-face name is still holding out.
Zara is under investigation by Argentinian authorities over its alleged use of slave labour. The South American nation’s Government Control Agency raided a series of factories associated with the world’s No. 1 apparel retailer after La Alameda, a local workers’ rights group, tipped it off.