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Circularity Issues / Evidence Indicators

18 November 2025

 8 minutes

Fashion Can’t Spin Circularity Anymore Without Hard Evidence on the Table

Fashion's vulnerability intensifies as climate projections threaten half the world's cotton crops by 2040, making circular material strategies essential for managing geopolitical sourcing instability.

The fashion sector continues to struggle with inconsistent data, fragmented supply chains and growing regulatory pressure, limiting progress on circularity. The updated Circular Transition Indicators guidance aims to overcome these challenges with refined methodologies and clearer regulatory alignment. Elisabetta Rocchi, Associate for Circular Products and Materials at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, outlines how the sector-specific edition strengthens measurement and implementation.

  • Subir Ghosh
 Interview
Latest: Updates
Denim Production / Archroma Finishing Interview
Denim Halo is a breakthrough alternative. It draws on a unique new chemistry, Dirsol RD, and a broad portfolio of textile dyes based on decades of advanced research to produce laser-friendly denim with outstanding contrast on intense black and indigo shades.

Archroma’s Upstream Shift Signals a New Era for High-Contrast Denim Finishing

  • Subir Ghosh

17 November 2025
Event Roundup / FTSC 2025 Report
The International Conference on Fashion as a Tool for Social Change explored how fashion systems can move beyond extraction towards models that prioritise human relationships, epistemic justice and equitable value creation across global supply chains.

Participatory Design and Ethical Labour Dominate Discourse at FTSC 2025 Gathering

  • Special Correspondent

17 November 2025
Other Top Stories
 
ITF Intertex Spain 2025
CIRCULARITY / RECYCLING / SECONDS / WASTE
The Denim Deal’s arrival in India transformed fragmentation into focus, linking recyclers, mills, and makers through shared data and trust rather than imported procedures.

From Waste to Wear: India Shows Circular Denim Fashion at Industrial Scale

India has taken circular fashion from pilot to production. In less than a year, its denim ecosystem has stitched recyclers, spinners, and manufacturers into a single operational loop. The result, helmed by Denim Deal, is a functioning, traceable supply chain turning waste into wear—and positioning India as the first manufacturing base to industrialise circular denim at scale.

Subir Ghosh
 
Morocco Fashion Tex 2026
FLASHPOINT: CLIMATE
GHG Emissions / Localisation
Industry groups have referenced the paper when examining how localised production and renewable energy could intersect with existing supplier networks and certification mechanisms for sustainable apparel manufacturing.

Lifecycle and Microfibre Assessment Finds Regional Manufacturing Can Outperform Global Polyester Supply Chains

  • Staff Writer
 Update

5 November 2025

Locally produced circular sportswear could have a smaller environmental footprint than a conventional polyester garment reference, a new lifecycle and microfibre assessment has modelled. Renewable-energy use, shorter transport routes, and circular design choices together could reduce climate impacts and microplastic emissions, the researchers have contended.

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.

 
COLUMNS
 
Saudi Fashion Tex 2026
EXCLUSIVES
 
FOCUS: COTTON
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

India’s cotton story is fraying. Once the world’s largest producer, it now harvests less from more. Fields are shrinking, farmers are quitting, and seeds have stood still. The crop that once wove India’s textile strength now risks unravelling under policy paralysis, poor yields, and disjointed priorities from farm to factory.

Richa Bansal
 
 
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Highlights: Sea Change

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Dr Arup Rakshit
Dr Arup Rakshit
Director
Man Made Textiles Research Association
In the early years, MANTRA focused mainly on testing and R&D support for the textile industry in Surat. It provided services to weaving units, dyeing units, and processing houses. Over time, the scope expanded. Technical textiles emerged as a new focus area, and MANTRA started taking up projects in geotextiles, medical textiles, and other specialised areas.
MORE: To Remain Competitive Globally, Surat Must Embrace Sustainability

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Koen Warmerdam
Koen Warmerdam
Co-Founder and Brand Director
Aware
Digital Product Passports alone will not revolutionise our industry, the data they contain will. Aware makes Digital Product Passports (DPPs) automatic, accurate, and verifiable. As supply chain data is logged, starting at the fibre level, it’s sealed to a digital token and carried forward with each batch. Our system integrates this data into a DPP.
MORE: How Aware Is Reinventing Textile Traceability with Blockchain and Tracers
 
 
FOCUS: LEATHER
The AILPA 2025 exhibition underscored Kolkata’s emergence as a global platform connecting Indian manufacturers with international leather buyers.

India’s Leather Industry Repositions as Global Buyers Converge on Kolkata

Kolkata’s hosting of AILPA 2025 represented more than an industry event—it symbolised India’s recalibration within shifting global trade currents. Amid market disruptions and evolving tariff landscapes, the city emerged as a key platform connecting manufacturers and international buyers, highlighting the sector’s growing capability, design sophistication, and readiness for the premium export market.

Vasan Suri
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

  • Blake Garavaglia
 Commentary

14 October 2025
 
 
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