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Rubal Rathi

Research Scholar BML Munjal University
Rubal Rathi

Rubal Rathi is research scholar at BML Munjal University.

 

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Title Date
Preloved Luxury: Fad or Fashion’s Future?
 
 
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Recycling Crisis / Design Issue Report
The decision of what a textile product is made from increasingly determines what becomes of it—a shift that places environmental responsibility firmly within the design process itself.

The Textile Industry's Recycling Problem Was Always a Design Problem

  • Subir Ghosh

13 April 2026
Rethinking Circularity / Garments Apart / III Feature
Circularity cannot be retrofitted onto a finished product; it must be resolved as a structural constraint before construction ever begins.

Recyclable Materials Mean Nothing if the Product Cannot Be Disassembled

  • Subir Ghosh

10 April 2026
 
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Event Roundup / Intertextile Shanghai Interview
The fair’s buyer conversations point to a market where caution has not erased the need for discovery, comparison, direct contact, and sourcing clarity.

Sustainability and Functionality Now Share the Same Commercial Test for Fabrics

  • Subir Ghosh

20 April 2026
Exit Strategy / Russa Market Analysis
GUM's vaulted arcades on Red Square once housed boutiques from dozens of Western labels, each presence a statement of confidence in Russia's consumer ambitions and long-term market potential.

Western Fashion Has Not Just Left Russia; It Has Been Locked Out

  • Subir Ghosh

17 April 2026
 
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Fashion Communications / CLASS Interview
The Sustainable Fashion award competition invited stylists, photographers, designers, illustrators, artists and other creatives to rethink how to communicate the new generation of values of an ethical and sustainable fashion system. An open call and a high profile international jury to create an aesthetic that defined a new ethic.

It is not easy to communicate responsibility values

  • Subir Ghosh

29 March 2022
Cotton Crisis / 2023 Rankings Report
This is not the first time that Solidaridad and PAN UK have released cotton rankings. Brands and retailers, by virtue of these Rankings, knew where they stood as far as cotton was concerned, and so did the world. They had all the time to make course corrections. What is astounding, therefore, is that in spite of all the resources at their disposal—financial, material and logistical—and all that chest-thumping and deafening rhetoric, brands still cut a sorry figure.

Almost 90% of Top Retailers and Brands Still Unsustainable, Not Transparent on Cotton

  • Subir Ghosh

13 June 2023