As the demand for sustainable fashion surges, India’s handmade and naturally dyed clothing sector faces a critical challenge—how to grow without losing its essence. A recent panel of experts explored how artisan-led fashion can remain authentic, address market gaps, and reshape perceptions of value, scale, and sustainability in global fashion.

The footwear industry is finally kicking back against outdated data and misinformed comparisons with apparel. A new report busts myths around the industry's carbon impact, revealing major emission cuts and outlining clear paths for progress. With better materials, smarter factories, and accurate research, footwear can lead the way in fashion’s sustainability race.

Better Cotton has announced a bold pivot: it is embedding regenerative agriculture as a core part of its standard from 2025. The move is aimed at driving tangible improvements in soil health, biodiversity, and farmer livelihoods across cotton-producing regions.

A powerful coalition of sustainability advocates, cultural economists, and supply chain experts has filed a groundbreaking amicus curiae brief to expose and challenge the harmful influx of second-hand clothing waste into Ghana.

A new report from the Netherlands’ Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate warns that fast fashion is derailing global efforts to build a circular textile economy. With low-quality, disposable clothing flooding the system, the report outlines urgent structural, financial, and policy reforms needed to keep circularity from collapsing under its own weight.

Hong Kong dumps 17,480 suitcases worth of textiles daily. A new Redress report reveals massive untapped potential in recycling non-wearable clothing waste and urges urgent action from brands, recyclers, and policymakers to build a circular fashion economy before landfills hit capacity by 2026.

For the EU to lead on circularity, regulation must match the pace of innovation. The T2T Alliance, an initiative dedicated to driving the global scaling of innovative textile-to-textile recycling technologies, has urged policymakers to adopt measures that enable, not hinder, the scaling of the T2T recycling industry.

A new report from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre reveals that fashion industry climate plans are dangerously out of touch with worker realities. Despite bold decarbonisation targets, brands exclude workers from planning, risking livelihoods and safety. The study calls for a just transition that integrates environmental and social justice.

A new study from the University of Leeds highlights the regulatory gaps undermining eco-credential standards in the UK textile and fashion industry. It calls for stronger alignment with circular economy principles, enhanced consumer-focused policies, and better reporting systems to improve sustainability across the entire product lifecycle in the post-Brexit era.

The WBCSD has launched CTI Fashion and Textile v2.0, an advanced guide helping fashion companies accelerate their circular economy transition. Unveiled at the Global Fashion Summit 2025, the framework supports regulatory compliance, quantifies circular design, and measures social impact—aligning industry action with sustainability, climate, and nature goals.