Sneak peek New Collection 2012
New 2012 catalogues, launch date is Monday 6th February – some very exciting new styles and colours from both our Continental Clothing range and EarthPostive.
Winner: CLIMATE WEEK AWARDS 2011 – Category: Best Initiative by SME
Award for Continental Clothing Company’s eco-apparel New Climate Week award scheme celebrates eco-achievements that galvanise public action Continental Clothing Company’s EarthPositive Apparel was named Best Initiative by a Small or Medium-Sized Business at the Climate Week Awards on Monday 21st March. Honoured for their inspiring initiative, the CCC joined the Secretary of State for Energy...
Supermodel and Campaigner Lily Cole visits the EarthPositive Supply Chain in India
Climate Week:Lily Cole in India from Environmental Justice Foundation on Vimeo. Designer EarthPositive T-shirts for Climate Week 2011 A host of talent, including Emilia Fox, Lily Cole, KT Tunstall, Jade Parfitt, Gillian Anderson, Eliza Doolittle, James Blunt, Jemma Kidd, Gemma Arterton and many others, has stepped up to front the on-trend geometric print on white...
Introducing TENCEL by Lenzing
The Eucalyptus Fibre For 2011 we introduce a new and exciting fabric quality. Four of the latest Continental Collection styles – N90, N91, N92, N94 – are manufactured in Tencel fine jersey fabrics. The material is well known for its outstanding physical characteristics – silky softness and luxurious drape. It is perfectly smooth, with depth...
Global Organic Textile Standard informational film
The International Working Group on Global Organic Textile Standard has produced an informational film outlining the Global Standard’s ecological and social requirements. In particular, the film highlights inspections, certification and lab analysis work in textile production sites all over the world and addresses the standard’s benefits for both the industry and consumers. Below you can...
Gap, Wal-Mart Clothing Costs Rise on ‘Terrifying’ Cotton Prices – Bloomberg
Gap Inc., J.C. Penney Co. and other U.S. retailers may have to pay Chinese suppliers as much as 30 percent more for clothes as surging cotton prices boost costs. “It’s a little terrifying to deal with cotton suppliers now,” said Vicky Wu, a sales manager at Suzhou Unitedtex Enterprise Ltd., a closely held, Jiangsu province-based...
Cotton to force up apparel prices
Analysis: Cotton to force up apparel prices Dec 11 2010 Vanessa Friedman, the FT’s fashion editor, analyses her interview with Tom Murry, the chief executive of Calvin Klein. She focuses on the group’s expansion into China and on the impact of cotton prices on the mass-market fashion world. http://video.ft.com/v/706258385001/Analysis-Cotton-to-force-up-apparel-prices http://video.ft.com/v/706258385001/Analysis-Cotton-to-force-up-apparel-prices
NO CARBON OFFSETS
Carbon neutral is a term most often used to describe a state where CO2e emissions have been negated entirely by the purchase of intangible ‘carbon offsets’. This represents the ‘lowest quality’ means of achieving carbon neutral status and is discarded by EarthPositive® as a credible method. The only course of action is to change business-as-usual...
CONTINENTAL CLOTHING WINS PRESTIGIOUS ETHICAL AWARD
Continental Clothing Company won the Outstanding Performance 2010 Award at the inaugural Ethical Corporation Awards celebrations of excellence in responsible business practice. The lavish awards gala ceremony was held in London on 4th May 2010, during Europe’s largest conference on corporate social responsibility and sustainability in business.
Continental Clothing & EJF’s organic cotton campaign t-shirts to support the charity’s work.
Continental Clothing sponsors the production of EJF’s organic cotton campaign t-shirts to support the charity’s work. Following the principals of EJF’s Pick Your Cotton Carefully campaign, the company was one of the first major labels to enforce a ban on cotton from Uzbekistan, where human rights and environmental abuses are rife in the cotton industry....