| Better Cotton to Clean up Act, Announces Decision to Launch New Product Label |
Certifications |
Better Cotton |
|
| Crop Monitoring Gets Easier with Cost-effective Imaging Method that Estimates Cotton Growth |
Cotton Farming |
Crop Monitoring |
|
| VTT Initiative to Explore Energy-Efficient Manufacturing Technologies For Fibre-Based Products |
Energy Practices |
Energy First |
|
| Danish Company Develops Fully Automated Sorting System for Post-Consumer Textiles |
Textile Recycling |
Using Robots |
|
| Scientists Develop Cooling Fabric with Chalk-Based Coating |
Functional Fabrics |
Chalk Coating |
|
| ILO Partners with Women’s Group to Promote Eco-Friendly Textiles in Türkiye |
Textile Practices |
Türkiye Project |
|
| Researchers Make Breakthrough in Smart Fabric Science for Sensing and Energy Harvesting |
Smart Fabrics |
Energy Harvesting |
|
| $13 million Partnership Project to Safeguard Australian Cotton Growers as Disease Causes 8% Yield Reduction |
Cotton Farming |
Disease Control |
|
| HK Researchers Use Biomimicry to Develop Clothing that Auto-Adapts to Changing Ambient Temperatures |
Functional Textiles |
Thermal Adaptation |
|
| ILO and CITI Launch Project to Promote Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in India’s Cotton Sector |
Cotton Farming |
India Project |
|
| Activewear Brands’ Circularity Initiatives Adversely Impacted by Location of Consumers |
Circularity |
Shopper Returns |
|
| Woke Marketing Letting Fashion Brands Get Away with Environmental and Labour Abuses |
Consumer Trends |
Woke Marketing |
|
| US Scientists Make Strides in Water Use Efficiency for Climate-Resistant Cotton |
Cotton Farming |
Tackling Climate |
|
| Swedish Scientists Closer to Convert Clothes into Textile Muscles |
Functional Textiles |
Textile Muscles |
|
| Bangladesh's RMG Industry Will Face Challenges on Multiple Fronts |
Bangla Apparel |
State of Economy |
|
| Indian Apparel Unlikely to Benefit from Bangla Crisis; Cross-Border Trade Remains at Standstill |
Bangla Apparel |
Trade With India |
|
| Bangla Apparel Headed for Internal Turmoil as Links with Awami League Come Home to Roost |
Bangla Apparel |
The Awami Legacy |
|
| Manish Malhotra Controversy: Artisans and Weavers Deserve Credit, Not Just Lip Service |
Traditional Textiles |
Cultural Appropriation |
|
| Fashion for Good, 7 Partners Launch Project to Accelerate NextGen Footwear Innovations and Circularity |
Footwear Innovation |
New Initiative |
|
| The Road Away from the Sustainability Roadblock |
Ideas for Change |
Tackling Climate |
|
| Brands Faltering on Climate Accountability, Action; Average Score of Top 250 Brands Stands at 18/100 |
Climate Action |
Industry Status |
|
| Updated Version of Guide Launched to Enable Suppliers Understand Implications of New Laws on Operations |
Supply Chains |
Suppliers Guide |
|
| Carbon Credits Ineffective on Mitigation Outcomes, Pose Risk for Offsets, Admits SBTi’s Synthesis Report |
Climate Action |
Carbon Credits |
|
| New Genetic Insights May Lead to Drought-Resilient Cotton |
Cotton Farming |
Resilience |
|
| US Fashion Companies Reducing China Risk, Targeting Emerging Destinations as More Non-Asian Countries Figure on Radar |
US Sourcing |
Benchmarking |
|
| Study Calls for Multi-Level Coordination Between Exporting and Importing Countries, Involving Affected Communities |
Waste Crisis |
New Perspective |
|
| Project in Pakistan to Convert Banana Waste into Textile Fibres and Energy |
Agro-Waste |
Banana Textiles |
|
| From the Show Floor: High-Performance Functional Fabrics, Finishes, Trims Took Centrestage |
Event Roundup |
Functional Fabric Fair |
|
| Fashion for Good, Textile Exchange Launch Initiative to Drive Transparency in Recycling with Trace Textile Waste Project |
Fashion Recycled |
Tracing Waste |
|
| ILO Partners with CITI to Address Vulnerabilities of Indian Cotton Farmers |
Cotton Farming |
India Project |
|
| Artificial Intelligence Poised to Radically Disrupt Fashion Industry Landscape |
Fashtech Trends |
AI Landscape |
|
| Scientists Develop 3D-Printed Fabric for Medical Devices |
Wearables |
3D Fabric |
|
| Researchers Discover Bacteria that Destroys Stubborn Fluorine-Chlorine Bonds in PFAS Compounds |
Toxic Fashion |
PFAS Study |
|
| There Should Be a Coordinated Effort in Congress to Rein in the Fast Fashion Industry |
Consumer Trends |
Slow Fashion Caucus |
|
| 89% of Fashion's Plastic Waste Comes from Synthetic Apparel, 40% of Waste a Result of Improper Management |
Plastic Waste |
New Findings |
|
| A ‘Fiber Shredder’ that Recycles Textiles Back to Fibre in 90 Seconds |
Innovation |
Recycling Shredder |
|
| Regenerative Leadership Transformation Toolkit Launched |
Sustainable Practices |
New Toolkit |
|
| Indian Retail Brands Embrace Omni-Channel Strategies to Boost Consumer Experiences |
Ecommerce |
Omnichannel Retail |
|
| And Now Electrically-Activated Sportswear with Nature-Inspired Active Perspiration Function |
Smart Textiles |
Activewear |
|
| Our Clothes Generate Microplastics that Pollute the St. Lawrence River and Other Bodies of Water |
Water Pollution |
Along a River |
|
| First-Ever Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus Launched in the US |
New Movement |
Slow Fashion |
|
| Why Does Some of Your Clothing Smell More When You Sweat? |
Fibres |
Sweat Absorption |
|
| Chemical Recycling of Mixed Post-Consumer Textile Waste Could Soon be a Possibility |
Recycling |
Textile Waste |
|
| Clothes Turn Smarter with Seams that Can Capture Body Movement |
Smart Textiles |
Body Motion |
|
| New Project to Develop Recyclable Outdoor and Work Clothing from Bio-based Materials |
Going Circular |
BioFibreLoop |
|
| Project Launched in Indonesia to Boost Circularity in Textiles Industry |
Going Circular |
Indonesia Partnership |
|
| Just 3.2 Points on 10: That's How Bad 235 Top Global Fashion Brands Fare Together on Circularity |
Going Circular |
Fashion Index 2024 |
|
| PFAS Are Forever Absorbed Through Human Skin, Finds New Research |
Toxic Fashion |
PFAS Spread |
|
| Key to Making Fast Fashion Less Harmful: Smaller and Well-Curated Wardrobes |
Consumer Watch |
Fast Fashion |
|
| WTO, UNIDO and Others to Galvanise Investment Financing in Cotton-4+ African Countries |
Africa Investment |
Cotton 4+ |
|
