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Design Edge / Zero Waste

31 August 2023

 10 minutes
According to SXD, if all products in the fashion industry were made into zero waste designs, using leftover materials and not wasting any of it, we could potentially reverse climate change in just 5.4 years. This approach can result in a 5% reduction in total emissions, equivalent to 2.4 gigatons of CO2 annually.

Design Disruption: Crafting a Technology that Eliminates Fabric Waste

Charting a radical new standard that designs elimination of fabric waste, the Shelly Xu Design (SXD) technology uses machine-learning and AI to create patterns that use every scrap of fabric efficiently. Award-winning designer Shelly Xu tells texfash.com how she combines great design with “bleeding-edge” technology.

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  • Richa Bansal
 Interview
Collection: Sea Change
Innovation / GCA 2023

9 June 2023

 3 minutes
The ten Global Change Award winners.

Global Change Award winners Announced, H&M Doubles Grant and Winners

The 2023 edition of the Global Change Award has a total of 10 winners and will share a €2 million grant from nonprofit H&M Foundation. The grant has been doubled.

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  • Staff Writer
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Snapshot / Recycling Crisis / III Feature
A diffusion of responsibility prevents coordinated action and enables continued inaction. Brands blame inadequate infrastructure, recyclers cite insufficient feedstock quality, governments point to industry resistance, and consumers expect affordable options without understanding environmental costs.

Policy Patchwork: How Regulatory Gaps Are Sabotaging Europe's Circular Textile Ambitions

  • Subir Ghosh

4 June 2025
Deforestation / Viscose Angle Report
A lone rainforest tree stump stands in a forestry concession held by PT Industrial Forest Plantation — logged to make way for a pulpwood monoculture plantation.

The Green Inferno: The Destructive Viscose Empire Behind Indonesia's Deforestation

  • Special Correspondent

4 June 2025
 
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Luxury Fashion / Italian Accord Commentary
The luxury fashion industry's dark underbelly has been systematically exposed through a series of high-profile investigations that have shaken consumer confidence and regulatory attention. Recent scandals involving household names such as Dior, Armani, and Valentino have exposed what Milan prosecutors describe as "a generalised manufacturing method" that puts lives at risk to maximise profits whilst maintaining the prestige of luxury pricing.

How Italy's Fashion Industry Will Tackle Worker Exploitation Through New Transparency Accord

  • Special Correspondent

6 June 2025
Cotton Crisis / Pakistan Status Analysis
The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) and All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) have time and again warned that the current tax structure makes domestic cotton unviable, forcing mills to rely increasingly on cheaper imported alternatives. Industry insiders fear that during the crop year 2025–26, cotton ginning and textile sectors may operate at less than 50% of their total production capacity.

Pakistan's Cotton Sector Faces Imminent Collapse as Government Scrambles for Solutions

  • Special Correspondent

5 June 2025
 
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SecondHand / Ground Truth Report
Greenpeace visits places of textile production, distribution, markets and waste disposals. Used and new clothes are sent to Kenya from Europe and China to be sold as so called "Mitumba" but often they end up as landfill and waste disposal due to the huge amount. Here: Textile and plastic waste at Dandora dump site in Nairobi. Marabow storks around.

Africa-unbound: 40% of 'pre-loved' clothing is actually textile waste

  • Special Correspondent

25 April 2022
Close Look / Sizing Solutions 2022 / I Report
The fashion media is flooded with news about tech developments in fashion retail. In March this year, American departmental store giant Walmart started rolling out the first applications in its app and web store. The idea was to let people choose a model that looked most like them and judge for themselves how the garment would look on them.

Sizing Solutions Thriving, But Industry Slow to Catch up

  • Subir Ghosh

2 May 2022
 
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