Procter & Gamble backs the eradication of animal testing

The conglomerate, which counts Olay, Pantene and SK-II among its brands, has teamed up with the animal protection organization the Humane Society International (HSI) to back its #BeCrueltyFree campaign fighting to ban animal testing for cosmetics in all major global beauty markets by the year 2023.P&G will lend its support to the campaign — which has been running since 2012 — via joint educat…

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Textile industry takes a toll on environment, says WWF

Based on data provided by Oekom research AG, the report classifies 12 companies into visionary, ambitious, upper midfield, lower midfield, latecomers or intransparent categoriesคำพูดจาก เว็บปั่นสล็อต. The results show that none of the surveyed companies was ranked in the hi…

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UK celebrities sign letter urging ban of fur imports

Judi Dench, Andy Murray, Ricky Gervais, and Twiggy are some of the stars that signed an open letter to show their support for the #FurFreeBritain campaign, ahead of a UK Government and Parliament petition approaching its 23 March deadline. Almost 98,000 people have signed the petition, which requires 100,000 signatures to trigger a parliamentary debate.Whilst fur farming has been illegal in th…

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Levi Strauss & Co. unveils a new global water strategy

The company has announced that it will move from from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to saving water towards a more nuanced approach, allowing it to focus on the areas most in need of a reduction in water use. It has also set a target of cutting its cumulative water use for manufacturing in water-stressed areas by 50 percent by the year 2025, and increasing access to clean, safe drinking water …

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Women lead push for rights in Bangladesh’s fashion factories

“In all these years, I have heard supervisors yell, verbally abuse, call us prostitutes and slap us behind our heads to work faster,” Akhter, who spends eight hours a day stitching pockets on jeans and shorts, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.“Then I became the union president and everything changed. Overnight, I became important.”

Akhter, 28, is among scores of women in Bangla…

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Woolmark unveils Wool Lab’s new edition at Pitti Uomo

This year’s Wool Lab Spring/Summer 2018 edition presents six fashion themes that includes both men’s and women’s garments, part of fashion’s current co-ed obsession, but also an effort to demonstrate that “wool fabrics are increasingly popular outside of traditional men’s tailoring,” explains the wool advocate in a release.From the “Generations” theme, comprising the more classic wool suiting…

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