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November 2023

  • Rayco and Belen Leon with their purchases from H&M.

    ‘Takes me back to Twiggy’: hundreds queue for H&M Paco Rabanne launch in London

    Much-anticipated collaboration brings customers out before dawn in hope of picking up Rabanne label at lower price

October 2023

  • Claudia Schiffer wearing a green chainmail dress on a catwalk

    Chainmail storms the high street as Rabanne and H&M launch collaboration

  • Discarded secondhand clothes cover a beach in Accra, Ghana

    ‘The missing link’: is textile recycling the answer to fashion’s waste crisis?

September 2023

  • People passing a large sign for the clothing brand H&M

    H&M is latest fashion retailer in UK to charge to return online purchases

    Rise in delivery and processing costs combined with increased use of free returns leads to £1.99 charge

August 2023

  • An H&M logotype is seen at a shop in Stockholm

    H&M says it will ‘phase out’ sourcing from Myanmar suppliers

    Fashion retailer is latest in sector to cut ties as reports of labour abuses in country’s garment factories increase

June 2023

  • The H&M chief, Helena Helmersson, speaks to the media in Stockholm, Sweden

    Bargain hunters bolster UK sales at B&M and H&M

    Upbeat figures from discounter and fashion chain follow similar updates from Next and Primark

May 2023

  • Models in black H&M clothing

    H&M’s Mugler collaboration has people queueing around the block

    Determined shoppers wait in line overnight outside retailer’s Regent Street site

January 2023

  • Lidl store in Slough

    Lidl, Zara’s owner, H&M and Next ‘paid Bangladesh suppliers less than production cost’

    Survey of 1,000 factories for campaign group claims many cut rates in pandemic and have not increased them since

December 2022

  • Rental fashion composite for G2

    ‘It’s more sustainable – and I still get to wear something new every weekend’: how rental fashion became big business

  • Jess Cartner-Morley

    High-street fashion needn’t be landfill fodder – if you choose your clothes well

    Jess Cartner-Morley

November 2022

  • Shoppers in front of a H&M store in Hong Kong

    H&M to cut 1,500 jobs as retailers face slowing sales and rising costs

    Fast-fashion chain announced efforts to cut costs after profits fell 30% in nine months

October 2022

  • Discarded secondhand clothes cover the beach in the  fishing community of Jamestown in Accra, Ghana.

    The road to Cop15
    Businesses call for nature impact disclosures to be mandatory by 2030

    H&M, Sainsbury’s and Nestlé are among more than 300 companies urging governments to agree to the pledge at Cop15 in December

August 2022

  • Customers queue outside H&M at the Metropolis shopping mall in Moscow.

    Massive queues in Moscow as shoppers take last chance to shop at H&M

    Retailer halted operations in Russia after invasion of Ukraine but has reopened for limited time to sell remaining stock

May 2022

  • Muthulakshmi and Kathiravel, parents of Jayasre Kathiravel, stand besides the portrait of her daughter Jayasre at there residence on the outskirts of Dindigul city in Tamil nadu state, April 21, 2022. Photo: Sivaram V for The Guardian

    Rights and freedom
    Murder, rape and abuse in Asia’s factories: the true price of fast fashion

    Jeyasre Kathiravel’s murder exposed the epidemic of abuse facing garment workers. But will a groundbreaking new agreement improve their lot?

April 2022

  • The Shein website.

    Ultra-fast fashion is taking over – and using every trick in the book to get us addicted

    Zainab Mahmood
  • People walking past an H&M shop

    Why ‘eco-conscious’ fashion brands can continue to increase emissions

  • the Ikea-owned Livat shopping centre in Hammersmith, west London.

    Ikea and H&M launch ‘ideas factory’ for local designers and creatives in London

  • A protest outside an H&M store in London last year, with five women holding placards, one of which reads 'Justice for Jeyasre'.

    Rights and freedom
    H&M pledges to end shopfloor sexual violence in India after worker killed

February 2022

  • Shahi Exports, an Indian woven apparel and textiles manufacturer.

    Rights and freedom
    Indian supplier to UK fashion brands agrees to pay £3m in unpaid wages

  • Families at airport departure gates

    ‘No light at the end of the tunnel’: Americans join Hong Kong’s business exodus

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