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Why Cleaner Water Has Not Meant Less Pollution; Fashion Keeps Fixing Wrong Leak in the Pipe
In Mexico, the Absent Inspector Is a Policy Choice, Not a Budget Accident
Textile Circularity Stalls Where Education, Community and Business Fail to Connect
The Design Instinct Upcycled Fashion Brands Need to Unlearn
An Industry Armed with Recycling Technology Now Confronts the Harder Problem of Scale
The Sneaker Economy Has a Structural Recycling Problem, Finds Fashion for Good Study
Why Bangladesh Loses More Cotton Than Norway's Best Recycling System Can Ever Recover
Scotland Proves Flax Can Grow but Cannot Yet Build an Industry
El Salvador's Secondhand Clothing Market Is a Blueprint for Affordable Reuse at Scale
Start-Ups Cross the Valley Between Textile Visibility and Factory Adoption
Europe’s Textile Future Will Be Decided by Infrastructure, Not Intention
Evidence Challenges Claims of Waste Hidden in Clothing Trade Flows
Renting Clothes Is Still Losing to the Comfort of Simply Buying New
The Recycling System Was Not Built for What It Receives
The Real Test of Textile Policy Is Not Ambition but What Survives Contact
Circularity Has Been Mistaken for the Act of Gathering
From Promising Start-Ups to Thriving Businesses: The ITMA 2023 Story
Textiles Industry Quietly Rewriting what Innovation Means
Fashion's Supply Chain Finds Its Compass and It Points Towards Shanghai
The Sediment Record That Challenges a Century of Green Assumptions on Natural Fibres
Slow-Burning Furnace: India's Garment Workers Are Absorbing a Crisis Not Theirs
Systemic Silence: Worker Voice in Viet Nam's Lower Tiers Remains a Work in Progress
EU Moves to End Routine Disposal of Excess Apparel Stock; New Rules Redefine Fashion Surplus
Regulators Failing to Substantiate Conservation Benefits of Wildlife Fashion Trade, Argues Study
Service-Based Retail Is Redefining What Sustainable Fashion Really Demands
A New 'Circular' Fibre Launch Redraws How Fashion Handles Its Material Waste
Why Collecting Ocean Waste Required Building Factories, Not Just Funding Beach Cleanups
Participatory Design and Ethical Labour Dominate Discourse at FTSC 2025 Gathering
Inside the Growing Carbon Crisis Behind Fashion’s Easy-Return Culture
Scaling Down to Scale Up: MycoWorks Announces Closure of US Plant to Refocus on Processing
How Cascading Circularity Could Redefine the Future of the Textile Economy
New Better Cotton Report Seeks to Align LCA Practice with Real-World Farm-Level Realities
Stakeholder Framework Helps Turkish Textile SMEs Meet EU Sustainability Demands
Global Apparel Giants Show Declining Cotton Usage While Synthetic Dependence Reaches Critical Industry Levels
Workforce Planning, Commercial Awareness and Retention Key Priorities for India’s Apparel Factories
Indian Must Upskill Leadership, Managers, and Shopfloor to Stay Globally Competitive
Sustainability, Functional Fashion and Digital Transformation Drive Agenda as Intertextile Shanghai Autumn Edition Opens
Munich Fabric Start Consolidates Four Trade Shows Under One Roof
India Bows to Trump Tariffs, Sacrifices Farmers by Scrapping Cotton Import Duty for US Suppliers
China Produced Over 1 Gt of Fibres, Cementing Dominance in Manufacturing and Trade
South Africa’s Clothing Industry Under Siege from Shein and Temu’s Offshore Dominance
From Policy to Practice: How PHDCCI Aims to Fast-Track India’s Technical Textiles Growth
From Milan to Myanmar: The Dark Reality Haunting Fashion’s Global Supply Chains
Invisible Stitches: The Hidden Human Cost of Pakistan’s Garment Exports
Dupe Culture on Trial: Lululemon Slams Costco for Selling ‘Knockoff’ Yoga Gear
The Hidden Environmental Cost of Luxury: How Fashion Brands Fail Their Artisans
Can India’s Handwoven Clothing Meet Global Demand Without Compromise?
Green Dreams or Greenwashing? Gen Z’s Battle for Sustainable Fashion in Viet Nam
How Italy's Fashion Industry Will Tackle Worker Exploitation Through New Transparency Accord
Pakistan's Cotton Sector Faces Imminent Collapse as Government Scrambles for Solutions
 
 
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Handloom Livelihoods / Women of the Loom / III Feature
Recognition has reached the women who weave and stitch, yet the earnings attached to their work have barely followed, leaving admiration and income moving at very different speeds.

Slow Fashion Sells the Story but the Weaver Sees Little Money

  • Richa Bansal

12 August 2026
Handloom Livelihoods / Women of the Loom / V Feature
For generations the value of heritage cloth reached global markets while its makers stayed anonymous, a separation the Atelier now tries to close by attaching names to work.

New Programme Tests Whether Artisan Labour Can Command Luxury Prices Globally

  • Richa Bansal

14 August 2026
 
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A.I. Impact / India Story Analysis
The transition from keyword search to intent-driven commerce marks one of the most significant structural changes in fashion retail since the arrival of the first online marketplace two decades ago.

India's Fashion Brands Have a New Gatekeeper and It Is Not Human

  • Piyush Deogirikar

17 August 2026
Water Pollution / New Study Report
Cleaner water can mask fibre that has simply changed address, a distinction between genuine reduction and pollution that has merely relocated from one compartment to another.

Why Cleaner Water Has Not Meant Less Pollution; Fashion Keeps Fixing Wrong Leak in the Pipe

  • Special Correspondent

5 August 2026
 
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Forest Resources / MMCF Pressures Analysis
The promise of renewable fibres rests on a forest economy now tightening under climate pressure, land competition, and regulatory scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions.

Textile Brands Underestimating Wood-Fibre Exposure as Climate and Regulation Converge

  • Subir Ghosh

19 February 2026
Close Look / Sizing Solutions 2022 / II Report
It is not clear how many companies in the sizing tech space exist in the market and how many startups have failed to take off. What is clear is that the tough and good ones are surviving—heading into a future which will see more brands and retailers getting into the virtual sizing/fitting area.

Sizing Solution Firms: Ones into Gimmickry Have Been Edged Out

  • Subir Ghosh

3 May 2022
 
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