It takes between 7,500 and 10,000 litres of water to grow enough cotton to make a single pair of jeans, according to the UN. That's the equivalent of around 10 years'-worth of drinking water for a ...

While building their fledgling fashion brand, environmentally minded Edzard van der Wyck and Michael Wessely confronted a deluge of sustainability claims about different textiles. "We looked at all ...