It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Charlotte Allingham

Indigenous Fashion / Colonialism

13 February 2024

4 minutes

Kitsch items are often gathered and reclaimed by First Nations peoples, artists, designers and academics. For instance, vintage Australian tourist scarves portray First Nations people as primitive caricatures and noble savages.

First Nations Artists in Australia Reclaiming Colonial Objects through Garments

First Nations garmenting in Australia is an emerging trend adopted by many First Nations artists whose work is interested in confronting or reshaping history, highlighting the current world, or imagining a new future.

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Solutions / Recycling Crisis / V Interview

Cetia can sort the garments by composition and colour to obtain a homogeneous deposit for processing, and then run this deposit through its automated unravelling line. This line enables mechanical unravelling. Another approach is to consider “intelligent” dismantling to deconstruct a garment. It is currently developing an intelligent dismantling line to separate the various textile fabrics from elements such as buttons, zips, etc., so that each element can be recycled in its proper recycling route.

Inside Cetia’s Breakthroughs in Shoe Dismantling and Textile Sorting Technologies

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State of Recycling / Europe Status Report

The official press conference for the Textiles Recycling Expo turned out to be a vibrant discussion on the subjects of circularity, recycling and textile waste.

Textiles Recycling Expo Aims to Weave a New Future of Circularity

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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

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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

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