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

Cotton Diaries

Cotton Farming / Narratives

4 April 2024

5 minutes

The media toolkit is not only for professionals in fashion and textile industries but also for editors and storytellers looking for on-the-ground stories ideas, as also climate and social justice activists looking to learn from holistic and community-centred solutions.

Cotton at the Source Project Gives Cotton Narratives a Much-Needed Boost

A media toolkit for cotton targets well-meaning journalists to write stories from the ground. texfash.com talks about that and stresses on the need for cotton trade associations to be a more open source for data and stories from the ground.

By

Subir Ghosh

Commentary

Cotton Markets / Liverpool Cotton Brokers

28 March 2024

7 minutes

For a long time, the retail sector was under the impression that organic cotton would be their answer to sustainable sourcing but there are many reasons why organic will never reach scale and still only 1% of world cotton production is organic.

There Is an Information Block Between the Retail and Agricultural Ends of the Supply Chain

All things cotton and the global market scenario from regenerative to organic, the urgent imperative to go sustainable and more is what Ben Eaves, Director of Liverpool Cotton Brokers Ltd, discusses in this freewheeling tete-a-tete with texfash.com.

By

Subir Ghosh

Interview

Young India Fashion Survey 2025

Textile Recycling Expo

ITF Intertex Portugal 2025

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Tariffs and Seconds / SMART View Interview

If unfair trade barriers persist, there's the risk of seeing mountains of usable clothing pile up in the US, while markets abroad fill the gap with cheap, low-quality fast fashion that often results in more waste, not less. Keeping the second-hand clothing trade flowing freely is in everyone’s best interest: economically, socially, and environmentally. This is a moment to build smarter, fairer, and more circular global systems, not to shut them down.

Trade Barriers on Second-Hand Clothing Disrupt a Globally Significant Reverse Supply Chain

Subir Ghosh

24 April 2025

Circularity Narratives / Crystal International Interview

To support actions against climate crisis, Crystal International announced in March 2022 its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. It is part of Forum for the Future's Enabling Systemic Circularity in Fashion project. Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability organisation focused on enabling systemic and urgent action in three potentially game-changing areas.

Focus Should Be on Collective Responsibility that Foster Transparency and Shared Accountability

Subir Ghosh

17 April 2025