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The world is set to gets its fourth largest luxury conglomerate as the Coach parent company Tapestry buys out Capri Holdings for $8.5 billion (7.7 billion euro) and with it the iconic Versace, Jimmy Choo and Michael Kors.

Cleantech biochemical company Nature Coatings has received a $2.45 million seed funding from some leading investors including actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio to help push adoption of its groundbreaking BioBlack TX — a unique carbon-negative black pigment sourced from FSC certified wood waste.

After years of research and development, biomaterials tech major MycoWorks is all set to supply millions of square feet of its flagship leather alternative ‘Reishi’ with the opening of a state-of-the-art facility in South Carolina this September.

US apparel-fashion importers are increasingly diversifying their sourcing base following the deteriorating US-China bilateral relationship and there’s mounting concern at the uncertain macroeconomic outlook, according to the just-released Benchmarking Survey by the United States Fashion Industry Association.

In what could well be a groundbreaking technology, a Walmart and Rubi Labs collaboration could soon be spinning out affordable clothing from carbon emissions, and the inspiration is nature yet again — the process how trees “eat” CO2!

Scientists at Cornell Unoversity in the US have developed a chemistry toolbox to clean up a formidable environmental foe: polyester textile waste. The concept has the potential to disrupt the textiles and apparel production business,

The US Cotton Trust Protocol has launched a five-year project which seeks to measure and improve the carbon footprint of the US cotton industry.

Computer scientists have reconstructed one of the most complete genomes of a top cotton species, which now give scientists a more complete picture of how wild cotton was domesticated over time and may help to strengthen and protect the crop for farmers.

In yet another case of not “Made in US’, the Federal Trade Commission in the United States has penalised a group of companies and its owner.

Google’s new AI model powers its virtual try-on (VTO) feature through generative AI model to show what clothes look like on a wide range of people with different body shapes, sizes, and poses.