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Sizing Solutions / Footwear Issues

3 September 2026

Width Variation among Women with Identical Foot Length Points to Limitations in Current Shoe Sizing

Current sizing relies on foot length alone, but width variation among women sharing a foot-length measurement shows that length cannot predict fit on its own.

Conventional shoe sizing, built around foot length, fails to account for the width variation among women's feet. In Australia, most women wear a shoe size that differs from the one their foot length indicates, and those who size up may be compensating for widths that shoes sold in only one width cannot accommodate.

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Recycling Crisis / Production Issues Analysis
Each new collection triggers the emissions-heavy stages of yarn spinning, fabric knitting and chemical dyeing, and rapid style turnover multiplies those stages faster than material efficiency can absorb.

Recycling Cannot Repair What the Production Phase Has Already Locked In

  • Subir Ghosh

2 September 2026
Biomaterials / Industry Usage Analysis
A widening gap separates researchers cultivating new materials from the designers whose choices ultimately determine what enters collections, boutiques and mass-market retail environments.

Fashion's Bio Revolution Is a Headline in Search of Hangers

  • Jane Wood
  • Tom Bird-Jones

1 September 2026
 
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CIRCULARITY / RECYCLING / SECONDS / WASTE
Ecosystems have processed and cycled material for billions of years without accumulation. The case studies have drawn on this as a design model for fashion's own material recovery.

Fashion Has Discarded 110 Million Tonnes of Textile Fibre a Year with No Biological Recovery Path, Case Studies Find

Completed case studies from a multi-year programme have shown that biological decomposition processes, including enzymatic hydrolysis, bacterial fermentation, and microbial activity, can convert discarded textile waste into biodegradable and biocompatible materials. Pilots in Ghana, the Netherlands, and Germany have mapped a pathway that routes fashion's discards through breakdown processes rather than landfill or incineration.

Staff Writer
Distinctiveness has a ceiling that few briefs account for, and understanding where that ceiling sits matters more than chasing novelty without any restraint.

The Design Instinct Upcycled Fashion Brands Need to Unlearn

  • Special Correspondent
 Analysis

30 June 2026
 
FLASHPOINT: CLIMATE
Material Innovation / Bezos Fund
The funding signals a research-led push to make alternative materials commercially usable, not merely experimental answers to fashion’s environmental footprint or laboratory curiosity.

The Race to Reinvent What We Wear Gets $34 Million from Bezos Earth Fund

  • Staff Writer
 Update

27 April 2026

Breakthrough textile materials have received $34 million in new Bezos Earth Fund grants, backing research into bacterial fibres, spider-silk-inspired biodegradable materials, coloured cotton and cotton seedbank restoration. The funding targets materials that can match rayon, silk and cotton while improving cost, performance and environmental outcomes across fashion and textile supply chains.

Climate Action / Ethiopia Project
Ethiopia's garment sector is entering a new phase, where climate resilience, cleaner production and worker advancement are becoming central to industrial strategy.

Climate Resilience and Workplace Safety Drive New ILO-Japan Programme for Ethiopian Garment Factories

  • Staff Writer
 Update

1 April 2026

Climate resilience, productivity and workplace safety are being advanced across Ethiopia's leather, textile and garment sector through a new ILO-Japan joint initiative. The one-year programme targets 40 factories across five cities, integrating Japanese expertise, digitalised safety tools and a women's leadership development programme to drive sustainable and inclusive industrial growth.

 
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FOCUS: COTTON
Resilience in agriculture often begins with small, repeated decisions made under uncertain conditions and constrained resources. This caption explores how incremental change accumulates into structural transformation across a working landscape shaped by necessity.

Climate Pressure Forces a Reckoning Across Pakistan's Cotton Belt

Fragmented pilot projects have long defined regenerative agriculture efforts in Pakistan's cotton sector, but mounting climate and market pressures are exposing the limits of that approach. Drawing on a recent industry roundtable, Abou Bakar, Country Representative – Pakistan, CottonConnect, explains what a coordinated national framework would look like, and why farmer incentives and traceability now sit at the centre of that conversation.

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Highlights: Sea Change

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Arushi Chowdhury Khanna
Arushi Chowdhury Khanna
Founder
LoomKatha
Not every artisan is an entrepreneur. There are vast numbers of exceptionally skilled artisans who simply do not have the bandwidth to create social media content, handle complex paperwork or the financial acumen required to run a business. Yet, they are very talented and their work is refined and beautiful. In this category, are artisans who are senior in age, women artisans who juggle traditional gender roles with their work and those who would not be considered literate by conventional definition.
MORE: Saving a Handmade Textile Means Rebuilding the Buyers Who Once Prized It

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José Luis Spontón
José Luis Spontón
Researcher
Reconquista Experimental Research Station
In the primary cotton production sector specifically, with its diversity of actors across the Latin American territory, making a particular technology or productive technique widely adopted requires different "incentives" depending on whether the producers are family-scale or large-scale. In many cases, the absence of those incentives is precisely what limits the widespread adoption of many available technological advances.
MORE: Latin America's Cotton Diversity Is an Asset Nobody Has Unlocked Yet
 
 
FOCUS: LEATHER
The new organisational structure is completed by a strongly product- and project-oriented operational model, with three event managers.

Major Reorganisation Positions Fierecongressi as a More Competitive Force in Global Exhibition Markets

A major internal reorganisation, aligned with a growth strategy and a substantial infrastructure investment programme, has reshaped Fierecongressi's operational model. The restructuring establishes a dedicated Internationalisation Area, merges two business units into a single Fairs Business Unit, and introduces a product-oriented structure to strengthen the company's competitive position in the global exhibition and congress market.

Staff Writer
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
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14 October 2025
 
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