Three US engineers have devised a textile, modelled on the polar bear’s fur, that could keep people snug in the Arctic cold.

Over 1,000 facilities around the world have been certified under the STeP (Sustainable Textile Production) standard of environmental certification specialist Oeko-Tex.

Avant-garde Berlin will be buzzing with the fashion fraternity as it descends there for the Denim Première Vision in its quest for inspiration and collections for Autumn-Winter 24-25.

Leading global producer of wood-based specialty fibres Lenzing has launched a recycling initiative to drive circularity in the global textiles industry. This is being done in association with its partners in Spain, Pakistan and Brazil.

Buoyed by increasing affluence and discretionary spending, the fashion and apparel segment is set to become the biggest segment of online retail in India in the next two years, elbowing out the mobile devices category which had been the biggest in the past decade.

‘Affordable’ retailer Primark is inching closer to its ambitious move towards a more circular future with the launch of its first ever collection that promises enhanced durability and recyclability.

Flying to Finland? Don’t just walk past the world’s first second-hand store at an airport at the Helsinki-Vantaa.

Japan's Teijin Frontier has announced that it has developed a new foreign material removal technology that eliminates both polyurethane (PU) elastomer fibre and dyes from discarded polyester apparel.

A year-long collaborative engagement, orchestrated by innovation platform Fashion for Good, will see three top brands coming together to prototype Kintra Fibers’ biodegradable polyester that promises reduction of fossil fuel-based synthetics and closer to the goal to be Climate Positive by 2025.

In a “revolutionary” innovation that claims to reduce pollution and limits use of virgin fossil resources to make new products, H&M in association with Illinois-based LanzaTech has dropped polyester garments created partly from “captured emissions.”