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The 36th International Cotton Conference will be embedded inside a Cotton Week. With the motto ‘Cotton Decoded’, the event will explore cotton research as well as a wide range of topics along the entire supply chain.

Sulphur content in some high-performance fabrics weakens them when exposed to moisture. This finding by researchers at the University of Alberta is expected to help manufacturers work towards a solution.

The Global Fashion Summit: Singapore Edition 2022 will be hosted in Singapore on 3 November 2022. The new edition in Southeast Asia is the first time that the event will be hosted outside of Copenhagen since its inception in 2009, the organisers have announced.

The three-day Munich Fabric Start event kicked off on Tuesday confirming its standing as one of the most important European fabric fairs and trend authority: full exhibition halls, exciting highlights and innovations, new areas and a large number of visitors comprising international buyers, designers and product managers.

A new app developed by the H&M Group and WWF in Cambodia will support garment and textile factories reduce their potential contribution to deforestation.

Garment and footwear workers are disproportionately affected by road accidents; a new project under the aegis of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Vision Zero Fund and Nike Inc aims to find out why and offer tools to improve safety.

Indian market regulator SEBI has suspended trading in cotton futures on MCX for a month. The trading will remain suspended to revise contract specifications in consultations with various stakeholders and also allow wider value-chain participation.

Come 14 September and the city of Dornbirn in west Austria will play host to the 61st edition of the Dornbirn-Global Fiber Congress (GFC) 2022 — a three-day showcase of fibre innovations and deep dive sessions on sustainability, circular economy, recycling, smart functional surfaces, nonwovens, apparel & sports.

The Fashion Industry's New Era — a new report based on Twitter data highlights the key trends in the fashion industry that marketers and advertisers would care about in 2022 and beyond. The insights provide fashion marketers and advertisers with a solid foundation they can use to build out their future marketing strategies.

Apparel retail in India is in for a boost with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs exempting readymade garments sold in loose form from the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules.