Last week at the Sri Lanka Designer Festival’s Ethical Symposium attracted some of the best names in the Apparel Industry with key-buyers from retailers like Zaras, Top Shop, Monsoon and respected industry experts like Collin McDowell and Douglas Miller.The highlight of the event was the call by the Industry heavyweights to practise ethical purchasing which will support the Sri Lanka’s proposition of branding the country to be “Destination for ethically manufactured fashion apparels in the world” and if this is not done, Sri Lanka can become Ethically unemployed.

Over the last decade as Asia emerged the leading outsourcing destination for the global fashion industry, Sri Lanka stood alone as the only country that embraced ‘Ethical Business and Manufacturing Practices’ as a way of life. And with the aid of the Government of Sri Lanka through the Ministries of Finance, Industrial Development and Export Development and International Trade that has always been proactively supporting the cause,

Sri Lanka’s apparel industry says it would take its campaign for ethical manufacturing practices called ‘Garments without Guilt’ to the next level by promoting sustainable manufacturing and encouraging garment factories to go green. The Garments without Guilt (GWG) campaign was launched by the Joint Apparel Associations Forum (JAAF) several years ago to educate western retailers that Sri Lanka’s