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Liesl Truscott

Strategic Director The Biodiversity Consultancy
Liesl Truscott

Liesl Truscott is a Strategic Director in Nature Strategies at The Biodiversity Consultancy. Liesl specialises in textiles, fibres and raw materials, supply networks, industry accountability and corporate reporting, and has a deep knowledge of the fashion and textiles sector gained over 13 years at Textile Exchange. She now supports companies and sectors on deepening their sustainability strategies to have ambitious, measurable, and positive outcomes for nature, climate, and people.

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Second Chance / Owino Market Interview
Owino Market is a major economic hub, providing affordable clothing and employment for thousands, including importers, distributors, vendors, tailors, and informal waste collectors.

Fragmented Data on SHC Supply Chain Makes It Difficult to Accurately Assess Stakeholder Impact

  • Subir Ghosh

25 March 2025
Indian Textiles / Gherzi View Interview
The textile industry in India is extremely old, fragmented and very slow to change. Since it is so atomised it will a take longer time for it to adapt to the changes happening worldwide.

India Needs to Improve Sampling Capabilities and Availability of Some Specific Raw Materials

  • Richa Bansal

31 March 2025
 
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Circularity Narratives / ESCF Project Report
Participation in ESCF was not token—it demanded deep engagement from all. For Yee Chain, this meant drawing from years of hands-on trials in circular textile manufacturing. As supply chain partners, it was committed to share its existing knowledge and to advance development/ use of new knowledge and tools to actively contribute to the project.

Enabling Systemic Circularity and a Collective Push for Industry-Wide Change

  • Subir Ghosh

18 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
 
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Turn of Events / MFS SS24 / V Interview
Nature as a 3D printer: material designer and underwater photographer Zena Holloway creates shapes and forms from wheat grass roots that grow in self-carved moulds made of beeswax. Each growth cycle produces a different result – all products are therefore individual pieces that can be further shaped by cutting, sewing, tearing or linking. For example, they can be used to create large, hanging structures, to shape vessels or to produce clothing and accessories.

Pushing the Frontiers of Innovation: Crafts That Concern and Communicate

  • Special Correspondent

20 January 2023
Consumer Trends / Fast Fashion Analysis
There's an attitude–behaviour gap – the incongruence between what people say and what they actually do. This is a phenomenon noted across multiple generations. It underscores that consumer intentions are not reliable predictors of behaviour.

The Great Self-Contradiction: Gen Z Supports Sustainability – and Fuels Ultra-Fast Fashion

  • Marian Makkar
  • Amanda Spry

3 October 2024