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Denim Production / Circular Way

3 November 2025

 10 minutes

Circular Denim Goes Mainstream as Industry Turns Pledges into Product

The Denim Deal, the global initiative accelerating the use of post-consumer recycled (POCR) cotton, unveiled at this season’s Kingpins Amsterdam not one, but three collections that prove circular denim isn’t just possible — it’s ready to wear, ready to scale, and ready for every brand to plug and play.

Circular denim has stepped out of concept decks and onto the hanger. At the recent Kingpins Amsterdam show, an international alliance of mills and recyclers helmed by Denim Deal unveiled full collections proving that post-consumer cotton can compete on price, quality, and design. What was once sustainability rhetoric is now a ready-to-order reality for the industry.

  • Subir Ghosh
 Feature
Latest: Updates
Clothing Durability / Cost Per Wear
The study shows that small cues about longevity and use can shift attention away from low upfront prices toward garments that deliver genuine value over time.

Study Finds Cost-Per-Wear Tagging Shifts Preference to Longer-Lasting Clothes

  • Special Correspondent

31 October 2025
Other Top Stories
Cotton Crisis / Ground Truths Report
From sowing to spinning, every segment of India’s cotton value chain is under stress, affected by rising costs, outdated technology, and fragmented policy oversight across ministries.

Frayed Futures: India’s Cotton Crop Unspooling Fast

  • Richa Bansal

3 November 2025
State of Textiles / LB Tex Interview
Earlier, a lot of fabric and garments used to come by road from Bangladesh and China. The government managed to stop that, but the same material now comes by sea—to Chennai or Mumbai, it makes no difference. That’s why today the entire Indian textile market is disturbed.

Aatmanirbhar Bharat Will Come When We Rely More on India-Made Products

  • Richa Bansal

31 October 2025
 
ITF Intertex Spain 2025
CIRCULARITY / RECYCLING / SECONDS / WASTE
Collaboration between signatories, retailers, and charities has expanded reuse and recycling networks, capturing thousands of tonnes of textiles that would otherwise have become waste.

Circular Dreams at Risk: WRAP Sounds Alarm on Textile Growth Outpacing Climate Targets

Climate action NGO WRAP has unveiled a new UK Textiles Pact Roadmap to fast-track circularity and environmental progress across the industry. Despite per-tonne cuts in carbon and water use, soaring production volumes and linear business models threaten to erase those gains. The Roadmap strengthens collaboration, targets upstream emissions, and supports policy reforms for a resilient circular future.

Staff Writer
 
Young India Fashion Survey 2025
FLASHPOINT: CLIMATE
Climate Action / WRAP Roadmap
Collaboration between signatories, retailers, and charities has expanded reuse and recycling networks, capturing thousands of tonnes of textiles that would otherwise have become waste.

Circular Dreams at Risk: WRAP Sounds Alarm on Textile Growth Outpacing Climate Targets

  • Staff Writer
 Update

29 October 2025

Climate action NGO WRAP has unveiled a new UK Textiles Pact Roadmap to fast-track circularity and environmental progress across the industry. Despite per-tonne cuts in carbon and water use, soaring production volumes and linear business models threaten to erase those gains. The Roadmap strengthens collaboration, targets upstream emissions, and supports policy reforms for a resilient circular future.

Return to Sender / Carbon Crisis
Returned garments move through extensive transport loops that add thousands of unseen kilometres to each purchase, turning convenience into one of fashion’s largest emission sources.

Inside the Growing Carbon Crisis Behind Fashion’s Easy-Return Culture

  • Special Correspondent
 Feature

23 October 2025

The growing ease of online returns is redrawing the map of fashion logistics. What began as a customer service feature has become an environmental liability, adding distance, fuel use, and waste to every transaction. The system built for convenience now defines how much carbon fashion sends back into circulation, a new study has pointed out.

 
 
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FOCUS: COTTON
Farmer cooperatives and private producers are strengthening collaboration to improve cotton quality, consistency, and supply reliability across key production zones.

How Ethiopia Aims to Transform Its Cotton Heritage into Global Competitiveness

Ethiopia’s cotton sector, once a pillar of African textile production, is being re-energised through renewed coordination between farmers, industry, and policymakers. At the centre of these efforts is Tsegaye Abebe, Executive Director of the Ethiopian Cotton Association (ECA), who outlines how the country can convert its vast but underutilised cotton potential into a sustainable and competitive national asset.

Subir Ghosh
 
 
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Highlights: Sea Change

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Mijke van Ballegooijen
Mijke van Ballegooijen
Chief Executive Officer
Byborre
When a designer can see the footprint of a decision in real time, responsibility becomes a design parameter, just like colour or texture. Transparency doesn’t just inform; it should change behavior, because in the end, we are all responsible. It’s up to us to make the right choices, as producers, designers, and buyers.
MORE: Byborre’s Radical Textile Model Merges Craft, Digital Innovation and Accountability

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Josephine Mayer
Josephine Mayer
CEO and Co-Founder
CircularFabrics UG
In fashion, they’ve shown the potential to match the flexibility and softness of premium nylon yarns. In industrial contexts—such as automotive or maritime applications—we’re exploring how the materials can meet more stringent performance needs. We’re currently preparing for more extensive validation testing in collaboration with potential partners.
MORE: How CircularFabrics is Redefining Nylon Recycling Through Low-Impact Chemistry
 
 
FOCUS: LEATHER
Lineapelle 2025 demonstrated that the industry is ready to communicate in a different way. The collaboration between UNIC, Lineapelle, La Conceria, Is It Leather?, and voices like Volkan’s marks the beginning of a more open, consumer-connected era. But collaboration must extend to influencers, educators, and storytellers, people who can speak the language of the next generation of consumers.

The Power of Storytelling, Community and Leather’s Next Chapter

Leather doesn’t need reinvention. It needs representation. At the 106th edition of Lineapelle Milan 2025 (23–25 September), the message was clear: storytelling is key to leather’s revival as a sustainable, organic material and reimagine its future in a conscious world.

Blake Garavaglia
British Pasture Leather is the first and only producer of leather from the hides of cattle raised on regenerative farms in the UK, certified by Pasture for Life. It connects designers with ecosystem restoration through the production of leather, working from the farm level to produce a material which is 100% vegetable tanned, and traceable to regenerative sources.

Pasture Leather: A Journey from Field to Fork to Fashion

  • Richa Bansal
 Interview

20 March 2025
 
ATTENTION: DENIM
 
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