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.
Recherchetool für Materialien
Research Tool for Materials
The materials database contains media on our key topics of working conditions in the textile and clothing industry and the environmental impact of clothing. The types of media include studies, guidelines and reports, as well as films, podcasts and web tools.
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.)
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
Documentation and presentations of the conference.
The collection of used textiles has always been carried out in many countries around the world and has now become an important economic factor. In Europe, old textiles have been systematically recorded and reused since the early modern period. In recent decades, however, production methods and the consumer behaviour of our society have changed immensely: Clothing is produced in huge quantities worldwide, marketed globally and consumed rapidly.