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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
The Green Inferno: The Destructive Viscose Empire Behind Indonesia's Deforestation
Toxic Chemicals in Indian Clothing Pose Health and Environmental Threats, Finds Study
Outdoor and Sports Sector a Climate Solution Powerhouse, Argues New Study
Textiles Recycling Expo Aims to Weave a New Future of Circularity
Nike's Unpaid Wages and Erosion of Corporate Credibility in Global Supply Chains
M&S Cyberattack Must Be Seen as Wake-Up Call for Somnolent Global Retailers
Raw Materials and Manufacturing Account for 90% of Fashion Product’s Environmental Footprint
Adidas Loses Case in Germany, Court Orders Company to Desist from Saying It Would be Climate Neutral by 2050
9 Indian Associations Issue Code of Conduct for Child Labour in Textile and Apparel Industry
 
 
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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
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
 
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Socialwashing / Rana Plaza Analysis
The industry-level corpus of 322 reports from 69 companies replicates the topic-priority and positive-framing patterns found among Accord and Alliance members, indicating that environmental emphasis and rhetorical optimism are sector-wide disclosure norms rather than crisis-specific responses.

Apparel Brands Turned Disclosure into a Performance of Responsibility After Rana Plaza

  • Richa Bansal

1 May 2026
Consumer Trends / AI Shopping Commentary
Fashion’s pricing shift is not only about higher costs, but about algorithms learning when hesitation, desire and discounting meet inside routine online purchasing decisions today.

Convenience Becomes the Engine Driving Fashion’s New Overconsumption Problem Online

  • Aayushi Badhwar

30 April 2026
 
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Kapok Textiles / Flocus Feature
Kapok fibre grows on trees, on non-agricultural land. It not only offers a new environment involvement by creating demand for more trees to be planted and halt deforestation, it also positively impacts on the communities where the fibre is grown and processed. Why was it forgotten!?

Flocus Your Attention: A Novel Initiative is Resurrecting a Forgotten, Regenerative Fibre

  • Richa Bansal

7 February 2024
Climate Crisis / IPCC Report Report
“Having the right policies, infrastructure and technology in place to enable changes to our lifestyles and behaviour can result in a 40-70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This offers significant untapped potential,” said IPCC Working Group III Co-Chair Priyadarshi Shukla. “The evidence also shows that these lifestyle changes can improve our health and wellbeing.”

IPCC report calls for bio-textiles, wants cotton to give way to cellulose-based textiles

  • Special Correspondent

5 April 2022