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Sagarika Sengupta

Consultant Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Sagarika Sengupta

Sagarika Sengupta is Consultant with the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

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Event Preview / SMART Convention Report
Europe’s circular textile push is entering a harsher stage, where the test is no longer intent but whether strained systems can absorb waste, regulation and uneven market capacity.

Europe’s Textile Future Will Be Decided by Infrastructure, Not Intention

  • Special Correspondent

22 April 2026
Recycling Story / Avantium Interview
In Dawn’s model, the stronger commercial driver comes from converting cellulosic content, with polyester recovery remaining important but secondary to the wider economics of industrial deployment.

Polycotton Recycling Faces a Scale Test That Chemistry Alone Cannot Solve

  • Subir Ghosh

21 April 2026
 
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Event Call / ITMA 2027 Feature
Textile start-ups face their decisive test after visibility, when early attention must become trials, funding, partnerships and adoption inside working production systems worldwide.

Start-Ups Cross the Valley Between Textile Visibility and Factory Adoption

  • Special Correspondent

27 April 2026
Fashion Footprint / Modavision Interview
Global fashion authority is shifting away from inherited capitals towards platforms that redistribute visibility, participation and cultural relevance across borders with greater openness today internationally.

Fashion Influence Is Moving Beyond the Capitals That Once Controlled It

  • Subir Ghosh

23 April 2026
 
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Event Roundup / WFC 2023 Interview
The focus of the International Apparel Federation (IAF) is a stronger, smarter and more sustainable supply chain and the just concluded 38th World Fashion Convention addressd many such important topics with a global audience, educating delegates and bringing people together that can jointly achieve more in the endeavour to improve the industry.

Discussion Should Be about Sharing Risks and Rewards Than Simply Transferring Risks

  • Subir Ghosh

3 November 2023
Biodiversity Impact / Supply Chains Blueprint
Canopy’s mission is to empower businesses, whether large or small, with the tools, networks, and strategies needed to eliminate high-carbon forest fibre from their supply chains and to help scale innovative, low-carbon Next Gen solutions, derived from materials normally wasted — recycled textiles, or burned agricultural residues.

Small Business, Big Impact: How SMEs can Drive Forest Protection and Biodiversity

  • Nicole Rycroft

3 February 2025
 
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Material Innovation / Bezos Fund
The funding signals a research-led push to make alternative materials commercially usable, not merely experimental answers to fashion’s environmental footprint or laboratory curiosity.

The Race to Reinvent What We Wear Gets $34 Million from Bezos Earth Fund

  • Staff Writer

27 April 2026
Recycling Crisis / Project FAE
The harder work of textile circularity lies not in innovation but in the unglamorous infrastructure—sorting, pre-processing, supply systems—that makes recycling commercially possible at scale.

Europe's Textile Recycling Push Hits a Wall; Fashion for Good Has a Plan to Break Through

  • Staff Writer

10 April 2026