Legendary French designer Pierre Cardin who revolutionised fashion in 1950s and 60s dies at 98

Paris/IBNS: Legendary fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who revolutionised fashion in 1950s and 60s, passed away on Tuesday in a hospital near Paris at the age of 98.

UN launches drive to highlight environmental cost of staying fashionable

New York, Mar 26 (IBNS): It takes around 7,500 litres of water to make a single pair of jeans,  equivalent to the amount of water the average person drinks over a period of seven years. That’s just one of the many startling facts to emerge from recent environmental research, which show that the cost of staying fashionable is a lot more than just the price tag.

Dress the world in wood, UN says in its ‘Forests for Fashion’ initiative

New York, July 17 (IBNS): The fashion industry is valued upward of 2.5 trillion dollars, and employs some 75 million people globally – so it makes good sense to shift textile production from fossil fuel-based synthetic fibers to renewable, biodegradable textiles, made from wood, according to a new United Nations initiative that aims to make forests literally more fashionable.