| Study Finds Cost-Per-Wear Tagging Shifts Preference to Longer-Lasting Clothes |
Clothing Durability |
Cost Per Wear |
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| New Prompting Technique Shows How ChatGPT Can Forecast Emerging Styles with Greater Clarity |
AI Tech |
Forecasting |
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| Cascale Updates Higg MSI with Expanded Cotton Data and New Home Material Categories |
Higg Suite |
3.11 Update |
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| Aatmanirbhar Bharat Will Come When We Rely More on India-Made Products |
State of Textiles |
LB Tex |
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| The Human Story Inside Ethiopia’s Textile Parks: Survival, Change and Hope |
Worker Life |
Ethiopia Resurgent |
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| India Needs ‘One Nation, One Textile Policy’ and ‘One Product, One Slab’ GST System |
State of Textiles |
Gaurang Bhagat |
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| Building Skills, Compliance, and Confidence in Ethiopia’s Growing Textile Industry |
Growth Prospects |
Ethiopia Resurgent |
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| Circular Dreams at Risk: WRAP Sounds Alarm on Textile Growth Outpacing Climate Targets |
Climate Action |
WRAP Roadmap |
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| To Remain Competitive Globally, Surat Must Embrace Sustainability |
Ground Work |
MANTRA |
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| ASFW Shows How Africa Is Moving From Sourcing Margins to Global Manufacturing Mainstream |
Turn of Events |
Ethiopia Resurgent |
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| How Ethiopia Aims to Transform Its Cotton Heritage into Global Competitiveness |
Cotton Landscape |
Ethiopia Resurgent |
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| From Handlooms to Runways: The Rise of Ethiopia’s Conscious Fashion Movement |
By Design |
Ethiopia Resurgent |
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| Evidence and Enterprise Define Guatemala’s Real Circular Fashion Story |
Second Chance |
Guatemala Story |
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| Household Dryers Emerge as Major Source of Microfiber Pollution, Citizen Science Study Reveals |
Laundry Trends |
Microfibre Pollution |
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| Inside the Growing Carbon Crisis Behind Fashion’s Easy-Return Culture |
Return to Sender |
Carbon Crisis |
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| New Study Reveals AI-Driven Art Boosts Engagement for Both Mass and Luxury Retailers in the Metaverse |
Shopping Trends |
Metaverse Art |
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| MIT Researchers Develop ‘Refashion’ Software to Design Garments that Can Be Reassembled into New Items |
Circular Design |
Refashion |
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| Scaling Down to Scale Up: MycoWorks Announces Closure of US Plant to Refocus on Processing |
NextGen Materials |
MycoWorks Crisis |
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| Female Traders Drive Guatemala’s Secondhand Clothing Economy’s Real Value |
Second Chance |
Guatemala Story |
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| How Cascading Circularity Could Redefine the Future of the Textile Economy |
Going Circular |
Cascading Effects |
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| AI Helps Design Smarter Biochar Materials to Clean Toxic Dyes from Industrial Wastewater Streams |
Dyes & Chemicals |
Toxic Removal |
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| Simple Cooling Fixes Could Protect Millions of Garment Workers from Rising Heat, Concludes New Study |
Worker Safety |
Heat Stress |
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| Accelerating Circularity Maps Hidden Obstacles to True Textile-to-Textile Recycling |
Circularity Issues |
Hiden Obstacles |
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| Guatemala’s Reuse Markets Challenge Global Myths About Fashion Waste |
Second Chance |
Guatemala Story |
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| Saudi Arabia’s Growing Fashion Ecosystem Anchors a Sustainable Industry Future |
Event Roundup |
Saudi Fashiontex |
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| The Next Print: How True Colors is Designing its Future |
Printing Sector |
True Colors |
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| From Price Myths to Proof: WRAP Launches Global Wash-and-Wear Tests for Garment Lifespan |
Clothing Durability |
WRAP Project |
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| Future in Print: The True Colors Journey |
Printing Sector |
True Colors |
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| Copenhagen FW: How a Nordic Fashion Scandal Shook Industry Trust and Regulation |
Close Look |
Copenhagen Fiasco |
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| The Power of Storytelling, Community and Leather’s Next Chapter |
Event Roundup |
Lineapelle 25 |
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| Copenhagen FW: How a Fashion Week’s Sustainability Claims Faced a Major Reckoning |
Close Look |
Copenhagen Fiasco |
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| Europe’s Hemp Value Chains Strengthen Through Technology and Collaboration |
Hemp Prospects |
Hyler |
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| New Better Cotton Report Seeks to Align LCA Practice with Real-World Farm-Level Realities |
Cotton LCA |
New Report |
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| Global Compliance Shifts Challenge Cambodia’s Garment Industry on Climate, Labour, Governance |
State of Workers |
Cambodia |
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| From Boutique Fibre to Industry Standard: Hemp Faces Its Market Test |
European Hemp |
Markets & Adoption |
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| Better Cotton Marks World Cotton Day with Launch of Traceable Label and Refreshed Identity |
Cotton Label |
Better Cotton |
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| Cotton Researchers Engineer Antiviral Fabrics to Curb Hospital-Acquired Infections and Expand Sustainable Textile Uses |
Functional Textiles |
Antiviral Cotton |
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| Processing Power, Not Acreage, Will Decide Hemp’s Future in Europe |
European Hemp |
Processing & Technology |
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| From Flax Habits to Hemp Futures: Europe’s Learning Curve Begins |
European Hemp |
Cultivation & Agronomy |
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| Byborre’s Radical Textile Model Merges Craft, Digital Innovation and Accountability |
Driving Change |
Byborre |
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| Lenzing Launches New Tencel Lyocell Fibre that Targets Cotton-Like Look and Feel for Authentic Denim |
Fibre Innovation |
HV100 |
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| Rural Communities Harness AI to Improve Cotton Farming, Sustainability and Innovation Capacity |
Cotton Farming |
AI Prospects |
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| Systemic Overhaul Across Design, Disposal and Recycling Key to Advancing Circularity in Textiles |
Circularity |
Stichting UPV Textiel |
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| Global Brands Join Fashion for Good to Scale Hemp Denim Using Cottonised Fibres and Green Chemistry |
Hemp Prospects |
Beyond50 Denim |
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| From 'Bürokratiemonster' to Pragmatism: Two Perspectives on Textile Legislation |
Policy Issues |
Discussion Matters |
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| Europe Moves to Embed Proof in Textiles as Counterfeits Reach Trillion-Dollar Scale |
Counterfeits |
New Tech |
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| Durable E-Textiles Printed on Cotton Show Promise for Healthcare, Sports, and Lifestyle Wearable Applications |
Functional Textiles |
Inkjet Printing |
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| Two-Thirds of Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh Married Before 18, Study Finds Widespread Adolescent Pregnancies |
Worker Rights |
Bangla Study |
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| Global Buyers View Tunisia as Strategic Nearshoring Hub for Diversified and Resilient Supply Chains |
Event Preview |
Intertex Tunisia |
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| Global Associations Mobilise Delegations for ITMA ASIA + CITME Singapore, Covering Entire Textile Machinery Value Chain |
Event Preview |
ITMA Asia + CITME |
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