It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Valérie Moatti

Professor, Lectra Fashion and Technology Chair, ESCP Business School

Valérie Moatti is Professor, Lectra Fashion and Technology Chair, ESCP Business School.

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On-Demand Fashion Needs to Work for World to Cut Down on Consumer Waste	18 Apr 2024

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Event Roundup / IT Shenzhen Interview

The textile industry's pivot toward digital tools and sustainable materials represents not a single transition but a layered negotiation between commercial reality and environmental imperative

Old Fibres and New Intelligence Compete for the Soul of Textile Manufacturing

Subir Ghosh

21 July 2026

Going Circular / Waste Flows Report

Waste accumulates faster than the mechanisms built to convert it into something usable again, leaving each year's surplus to compound against a system still catching up.

Textile Circularity Stalls Where Education, Community and Business Fail to Connect

Special Correspondent

10 July 2026

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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

Country Overview / Mexico Workers Report

The garment sector's smallest workshops and home-based units sit outside inspection by design, concealing the workers whose conditions are least documented and hardest to reach.

In Mexico, the Absent Inspector Is a Policy Choice, Not a Budget Accident

Special Correspondent

3 August 2026

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State of Workers / Cambodia Interview

Cambodia’s garment sector remains highly exposed to new due-diligence laws, with weak oversight and minimal accountability increasing the risk of buyers shifting production elsewhere.

Global Compliance Shifts Challenge Cambodia’s Garment Industry on Climate, Labour, Governance

Subir Ghosh

9 October 2025

Country Overview / Egypt Prospects Commentary

The majority of the Egyptian garment industry's 1.5 million workers, 50% of whom are female, are unbanked, and are paid in cash.

Egypt Stakes Its Claim as Global Textiles and Apparel Powerhouse

Subir Ghosh

14 July 2025

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Tackling PFAS / New Initiative

Moving away from a single class of persistent chemicals is rarely simple, requiring careful evaluation of what a genuine alternative should look like before any substitution takes place.

New Effort to Test Alternative Water- and Oil-Repellent Options Involves Brands, Manufacturers and Technology Providers

Staff Writer

7 August 2026

Event Update / ITMA 2027

Manufacturers from dozens of countries do not share a language, a currency or a time zone, yet they turn up to the same halls anyway, betting that presence pays off.

ITMA 2027 Receives Strong Industry Response

Staff Writer

6 August 2026