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Time was when modest Muslim fashion was about being unseen – practicing piety without giving as much as a nod to style or fashion. But female consumers around the Muslim world are increasingly combining their desire to proclaim modesty and religious identity without discarding elegance and sophistication in their clothing choices.…

The European Parliament’ international trade committee has travelled to Dhaka to press the Bangladesh government to ensure that its country complies with 27 international labour, social and environmental conventions. This, MEPs will say, is needed for Bangladesh to qualify for the EU Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus’ (GSP) privileged trade access.…

Europe’s textile sector has said digital technologies will have a key role to play in implementing the European Union (EU) Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles (1), which was released March (2022), to ensure that by 2030, textile products placed on the market are long-lived and recyclable.…

Time was when hijabs were simply religious garb for Muslim women that covered their head and chest of religiously observant women. But hijab design has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years, with wearers wanting elegance while expressing their religious identity.

In Bangladesh, for example, online fashion influencers have been particularly influential since the mid-2010s, promoting different hijab trends and styles online, with local entrepreneurs increasingly producing and selling hijabs online, especially via Facebook.…

The Muslim world is extremely diverse culturally, so it is no surprise that colour cosmetics trends are many and varied. However, one clear universal trend is that Muslim women are on average becoming more knowledgeable about make-up, especially with internet influencers spreading advice on products and techniques.…

A campaign to boycott Indian products in Islamic countries because of anti-Muslim comments made by leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have died down for now but given the continuing Hindu-Muslim tensions in India, the risk of future supply disruption remains, warn economists.…

Bangladesh’s knitwear industry has criticised the failings that caused a major fire at a storage depot holding clothing and textiles for export from the country’s major port at Chittagong, killing 44 people and losing sector companies more than USD110 million.

Mohammad Hatem, first vice-president of Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) expressed regret that despite the major improvements in factory safety made since the Rana Plaza tragedy in 2013, port facilities and associated depots were not covered by these investments.…

The Bangladesh clothing industry is counting the cost of the deadly fire at the Sitakunda depot, serving the country’s major port at Chittagong, blaming the government and the depot owners for the blaze that appears to have erupted amongst stored chemicals.…

Luxury knitwear and lingerie producers in the European Union (EU) have been banned from selling and supplying goods worth more than EUR300-a-piece to Russia, as the country’s military continues its invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions, imposed by the EU Council of Ministers bans even indirect sales via third parties to individual Russian consumers, traders and companies.…

While the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a shadow of its former self in the Middle East, it has spawned global affiliates and is still very much in business, posing ongoing terrorist financing threats.

At the peak of its power as a self-declared Islamic Caliphate in 2015, ISIS controlled around a third of Syria’s territory and 40%of Iraq, with some 7.7 million people under its rule.…