A UBC research team has developed a cleaner way to produce rayon, a popular fabric used in clothing for more than a century.

Macy’s, Amazon, Sears, and Leon Max have been fined a combined $1.26million for for selling clothing labelled as being made from bamboo, when they were actually rayon. The Federal Trade Commission ...

(Update at 4:10 p.m. on Aug. 11 includes response from the Morris Saintsing, an owner of the M Group.) Federal regulators today announced a crackdown on textile manufacturers for allegedly marketing ...

Theresa Jakubik, an aspiring actress in Manhattan, recently went to brunch with some people she wanted to impress. "I put on these adorable little culotte shorts," she said. But by the end of the day, ...

Edith Clarke is boycotting rayon clothing. She's tired of wrinkles and shrinkage. She's seen polyester fabrics reappearing in the stores, but are they different from the bullet-proof polyesters of ...

Rayon might seem like a better alternative to petroleum-based synthetic fabrics, but it’s often made from trees in old-growth forests. A new nonprofit is working hard to make sure fashion companies ...

To be pregnant for the first time is to be the world’s most anxious, needy, and ignorant consumer all at once. Good luck buying a pile of stuff whose uses are still hypothetical to you! What, for ...

Canopy executive director Nicole Rycroft says, unlike other forest products, the question of whether a shirt comes from an endangered or ancient forest isn't often asked when people go shopping.

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Every piece of clothing has an impact on the environment, ...