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Ground Circularity / Denim Deal / PART III

7 November 2025

 9 minutes

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

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.

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
 Feature
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Consumer complaints in Denmark prompted scrutiny of how fashion companies frame sustainability in marketing and public communication.

First Person: How a Danish Researcher Forced Fashion to Confront Its Greenwashing Compulsion

  • Subir Ghosh

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Event Roundup / AILPA 2025 Report
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

  • Vasan Suri

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CIRCULARITY / RECYCLING / SECONDS / WASTE
Collaboration under the Denim Deal turned Europe into a laboratory for responsible production, proving that circular practices could coexist with industrial scale and commercial discipline.

Europe Turns Circular Fashion Data Into A Fully Working Industry Model

Europe’s denim industry has put data where its mouth is. A new regional collection helmed by Denim Deal shows that traceability, accountability, and aesthetics can function as one production system. By hard-coding transparency into every stage of design and manufacture, European mills have turned circularity from experiment into standard practice across their factory floors.

Subir Ghosh
 
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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
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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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

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