Founded in 2018 at fast-rising Chinese technology hub Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, Zhiyi Tech is focused on compiling style and sales data from major shopping and social-media sites around the world, providing clients with data-driven analysis of fashion market trends. Zhiyi Tech founder and CEO Zheng Zeyu said in a Post interview last…
As overconsumption culture deepens its hold on today’s fashion industry, clothing manufacturers are churning out cheaper products at larger volumes than ever before in order to keep up with demand. The Swiss market is no exception. Even clothing collection and recycling companies, such as Texaid and Tell-Tex, are struggling to accommodate the costs of keeping…
How does a fast fashion giant keep pace with trends while maintaining a budget-friendly approach? Shein‘s head of strategic and corporate affairs, Peter Pernot-Day, claimed its success is due to a “micro-production” model, starting with small batches based on emerging trends. “We are precisely tailoring the supply of products to the actual demand in the…
Fast fashion is known for being bad for the environment, generating a huge amount of textile waste. However, it’s also bad for the workers creating the garments, who are underpaid laborers working long hours in factories overseas. A prime example is Bangladesh, a country getting the short end of the stick in clothing manufacturing deals,…
Regional clothing designers are stitching a place in the fashion world by turning their isolation into eco-friendly opportunities. But they say more needs to be done to keep them and other small designers sewing. From vintage Indian silk saris and high-end fashion fabric offcuts to op shop curtains and linen, regional designers are thrifty in…
SHEIN has become one of the biggest names in fast fashion, selling affordable clothes online to customers around the world. The company had revenues of around US$30–32 billion in 2023 and offered nearly 600,000 items for sale at any given time. However, SHEIN is also facing criticisms over its rising carbon footprint and net-zero initiatives. The…
Workers in Guangzhou are putting in 12-hour days, six to seven days a week, to keep up with the relentless pace of fast fashion giant Shein’s production demands, reported Le Monde. What’s happening? Behind the trendy clothes that cost just a few dollars lies a production system pushing both people and planet to the brink….
Workers in Guangzhou are putting in 12-hour days, six to seven days a week, to keep up with the relentless pace of fast fashion giant Shein’s production demands, reported Le Monde. What’s happening? Behind the trendy clothes that cost just a few dollars lies a production system pushing both people and planet to the brink….
France’s Senate on Monday debated a bill to regulate the influx of environmentally unfriendly, low-quality clothes into the country, many from China. The lower house of parliament adopted a version of the so-called “fast fashion” bill in March last year, but a commission in the right-leaning Senate has sought some changes that backers say will…
German sportswear giant Puma has successfully reached its target of creating nine-tenths of its products using recycled or certified materials, reported Fibre2Fashion. The company initially set this target for 2025 but hit it in 2024, showing how quickly fashion brands can change their production methods. Puma dramatically increased its use of eco-friendly materials that create…