The long-awaited 'EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles', or EU Textiles Strategy for short, was announced on 30 March. The Strategy has widely been welcomed, but stakeholders have also pointed out loopholes and shortcomings in the policy. This edition of the texfash.com Magazine is a mosaic of divergent voices and perspectives across the industry spectrum on a policy that is likely to have a bearing on the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry for decades to come.

It has been more than three years since OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply was adopted. The theme of the 8^th OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector this year was Rethinking The Business Model For Responsible Supply Chains. The number of side sessions at the Forum, where a multitude of diverse voices from industry across the world could be heard, this time exceeded 50. This is an eclectic collection of some of those voices.

Legend has it that when a rebel prince landed in Sri Lanka in 543 BC, he fell in love with the Queen of the Yakkas (demons), Kuveni, as she sat weaving cotton yarn at a spinning wheel. From then till now this tear drop nation has emerged as a leading textile player with apparel export a key sector contributing to its economy. Today, for a pandemic-ravaged world as also this island nation, these are the worst of times, but not without the spring of hope. texfash takes a three-sixty-degree look at what plagues the industry and the road ahead as the importance of the apparel manufacturing sector becomes paramount.