🌍 Africa’s used clothes importers dispute campaigners’ waste claims. Talking on the inaugural Textile Circularity Convention, organised by the Bureau of Worldwide Recycling, on Sep. 17 in Brussels, Belgium, African representatives refuted what they described as “unverified” claims made by sustainability campaigners and worldwide media that 40 % of secondhand clothes imports into the area are of such poor high quality that they find yourself in landfill as textile waste. Marlvin Owusu, government member of the Ghana Used Clothes Sellers Affiliation, and Teresiah Wairimu, chair of the Mitumba Consortium Affiliation of Kenya, claimed that the actual determine is within the single digits. “We’re enterprise individuals… we solely import sorted garments and we’re main the way in which on constructing a round economic system by way of textile use … It is vitally insulting to listen to we’re importing waste,” stated Wairimu, who defended the sector as a significant employer and supplier of inexpensive clothes on the continent. [BoF Inbox, The Telegraph Uganda]
🇨🇳 Mytheresa launches new model identify in China and WeChat programme. The posh e-tailer has rebranded as Meilinshi for the market and launched a mini programme for the tremendous app, following the latest appointment of Dede Chan Brignoli as Higher China president. “When a number of Western retailers are abandoning their presence within the area, Mytheresa underlines its long-term dedication to China [with this move],” stated Gareth Locke, the corporate’s chief progress officer & managing director. [Fashion United]
🇮🇳 Amazon appoints Samir Kumar as its new India nation supervisor. The e-commerce main has introduced that the corporate veteran will assume the function on Oct. 1, changing Manish Tiwary who resigned in August. Kumar will successfully add the India market to the roster of different worldwide markets he leads comprising the Center East, South Africa and Turkey. Becoming a member of the agency in 1999, Kumar helped arrange the India enterprise in 2013, growing it within the intervening years alongside Amazon’s SVP for rising markets Amit Agarwal. [Economic Times]
🇧🇷 Comme des Garçons to open first South America retailer in Brazil. The avant-garde luxurious model led by Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo has partnered with Iguatemi to open a boutique within the Brazilian shopping center large’s São Paolo procuring centre. It follows a string of different directional manufacturers coming into the market by way of Iguatemi lately similar to Balenciaga and Loewe. [Valor International]
🇮🇳 India’s ready-made garment exports improve 12% in August. Exports rose to $1.26 billion within the month, regardless of world headwinds such because the Crimson Sea transport disaster and excessive logistics prices, stated the nation’s Attire Export Promotion Council (AEPC) chairman Sudhir Sekhri. “FTA (free commerce settlement) accomplice nations like Japan and Korea have additionally began yielding optimistic outcomes,” stated AEPC secretary common Mithileshwar Thakur. [Economic Times]
🇯🇵 Levi’s brings trademark lawsuit towards Japanese model FullCount. The American attire large has filed a lawsuit in a California courtroom accusing the Japanese denim model and US retailers Franklin & Poe and Commonplace & Unusual of counterfeiting and trademark infringement over its crimson ‘tab mark’ and embroidered ‘Arcuate mark’. Regardless of two prior injunctions in 2009 and 2018 requiring the defendants not manufacture, produce, supply or promote Levi’s logos, the corporate claims that they proceed to infringe on them. [Sourcing Journal]
🇮🇳 Indian equipment model DailyObjects raises $10 million. The Gurugram-based model has secured the funding in a sequence B funding spherical led by Mumbai-based wealth administration agency 360 One Asset. Based in 2012 by Pankaj Garg and Saurav Adlakha, DailyObjects is a DTC model promoting trend and tech equipment. “We’re equipped for a bigger footprint,” stated Adlakha. [Economic Times]
🇰🇷 David Kang opens a South Korean-focused consultancy in Paris. The previous head of the shuttered Paris department of Korean multi-brand retailer Tom Greyhound, a subsidiary of Hyundai Group affiliate Good-looking Corp, is launching Paris Artwork Membership, a consultancy that can dealer offers for South Korean manufacturers in Europe and vice versa, as first reported by WWD. [BoF Inbox]
🇨🇳 Michael Kors names Chinese language actress Yang Zi as its model ambassador. The American trend model has tapped the actress with over 62 million followers on Weibo, recognized for roles in movie and TV sequence similar to “Dwelling With Youngsters” and “Misplaced You Eternally,” to endorse its merchandise. [Jing Daily]
