Leveraging desperation: Apparel Brands’ Purchasing Practices during Covid-19 The questions explored in this report are related to the purchasing practices of brands and retailers as they place new orders with suppliers during the continued Covid-19 pandemic. How are brands responding to their business partners’ distressed circumstances? Are they treating eligible? Or are brands and retailers taking advantage of suppliers’ desperation to extract price discounts and other concessions? How are current trends in order volume and pricing affecting the viability of suppliers? What will be the impact on the tens of millions of workers who sew apparel for their livelihood? To answer these questions, this report examines the findings from a new survey of apparel suppliers conducted during July and August of 2020. It also draws on recent trade data, interviews with stakeholders, quarterly financial reports, and other sources. Mehr Details
Sustainable Apparel Barometer 2021 – Practical analysis of key issues and innovation in apparel supply chains This Sustainable Apparel Barometer is intended to promote an understanding of what best practice looks like in the world of sustainability in the apparel sector. It aims to help companies in the industry create even more robust strategies and practices. The textile and apparel sector is under intense scrutiny over its environmental and social impacts. Mehr Details
Buy good Stuff - Fair Fashion Shopping Guide Köln Fashion Guide provides background information on Ethical Fashion in a first part: from the purchasing behaviour of consumers to the concept of slow fashion, conditions in conventional fashion production and alternatives. Alternative fibres and production methods as well as multi-stakeholder initiatives, seals and standards in the field of ecologically produced clothing and social standards will be presented.The second part presents eco-fair fashion labels and fashion stores in Cologne. In the store register, all stores that offer ecologically and/or fairly produced clothing are listed separately according to Cologne city areas. Editorial team: Annika Cornelissen (FEMNET e.V.); Elisabeth Hackspiel-Mikosch (AMD Academy Fashion & Design); Tatjana Krischik (FEMNET e.V.);Michaela Reithinger (FEMNET e.V.) Mehr Details
Fact sheet: migrant labour in the textile and garment industry - A focus on the role of buying companies Migrant workers are an important part of the global garment industry workforce. These workers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation: They often do the same job as local workers but for lower wages and in more precarious conditions, and face specific barriers to articulating and demanding their rights as workers. Abuse of migrant workers in textile and garment supply chains is a growing problem. This fact sheet addresses these abuses and offers companies that buy garments for retail a set of recommendations to address exploitation of migrant workers in their supply chain. This publication is part of a series of fact sheets that SOMO is developing for the WellMade programme. Editorial team: Burton, Angela Mehr Details
Conference 'Slow Fashion: Prospects for more sustainability in the field of clothing?' Documentation and presentations of the conference. Mehr Details
