| Shapewear Finally Stopped Selling Transformation and Started Selling Infrastructure |
Functional Clothing |
Shapewear |
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| Textile Circularity Becomes a Serious Test of Europe’s Waste Economy |
Event Roundup |
IFAT |
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| The Circular Economy Is Working for the Wrong People in the Wrong Places |
Project Rewear |
Study Findings |
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| Scotland Proves Flax Can Grow but Cannot Yet Build an Industry |
Flax Sector |
Study Findings |
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| Brands Are Selling Controlled Outcomes in a Category Short on Control |
Functional Clothing |
Compressionwear |
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| From Display to Delivery: Functional Textiles Sector Full of Tools and Short of Systems |
Event Report |
Performance Days |
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| The Clothing Industry Called It Accessibility and the Market Called It an Opportunity |
Functional Clothing |
Adaptive Garments |
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| India Cannot Sell Its Cotton to the World Until It Admits Why the World Stopped Buying |
Mission Cotton |
India Story |
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| Nordic Fashion Industry Faces Greenwashing Crisis as Consumption Outpaces Sustainability Efforts, Council Acts |
Greenwashing |
Nordic Move |
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| New Cellulose Staple Fibre Yarn Process Offers Softer, More Breathable Fabric for Next-to-Skin Clothing |
Fibre Innovation |
New Yarn |
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| Scaling Vision Correction across the Garment Sector Could Add $27 Billion a Year, Study Shows |
Workers Rights |
Vision Problems |
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| When Heritage Becomes a Market Category, Proof Must Follow the Launch |
Traditional Textiles |
Padma Doree |
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| El Salvador's Secondhand Clothing Market Is a Blueprint for Affordable Reuse at Scale |
Second Chance |
El Salvador |
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| Vertical Stripes Lose Their Slimming Edge to Narrow Horizontal Patterns, Except When Seen from Behind |
Style File |
Stripe Uses |
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| Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model |
Consumer Trends |
Activewear Fad |
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| Global Access to Circular Denim Widens as World Collective and Denim Deal Expand Sourcing Partnership |
Denim Markets |
New collective |
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| Cotton's Agricultural Waste Generates More Energy Than the Crop Requires to Grow, Research Shows |
Cottonseed Waste |
Biodiesel |
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| The Next Yarn Economy Will Reward Evidence, Partnership and Discipline |
Yarn Markets |
MIC spa |
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| Recycled Activewear Reveals the Structural Limits of Fashion’s Sustainability Claims |
Beyond Polyester |
Activewear |
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| Clothing Catalogue Tool Coming to Google Photos Lets Users Mix, Match and Preview Outfits Virtually |
Virtual Styling |
Google Photos |
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| Apparel Brands Turned Disclosure into a Performance of Responsibility After Rana Plaza |
Socialwashing |
Rana Plaza |
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| Data-Driven Simulators Outperform Prompt-Based Alternatives, Google Research Apparel Study Shows |
Consumer Trends |
ConvApparel |
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| Convenience Becomes the Engine Driving Fashion’s New Overconsumption Problem Online |
Consumer Trends |
AI Shopping |
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| Gen Z Leads US Secondhand Seller Base as Resale Remains More Closet Clear-Out Than Income Stream |
Consumer Trends |
US Market |
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| The Plant Fibre Sector Keeps Chasing Visibility When It Needs Markets |
Plant Fibres |
FIBRAL Report |
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| SwitchDye Gains Industry Partner to Validate Lower-Impact Polyester Dyeing Inside Working Mill Environments Commercially Soon |
Funding Round |
SwitchDye |
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| Fashion Manufacturers Launch Producer-Led Framework to Drive Facility-Specific Decarbonisation Investment Decisions |
Climate Action |
Bang for Buck |
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| The Sportswear Market Has Changed the Rules and the Biggest Players Are Exposed |
HSBC Downgrade |
Nike Impact |
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| Apparel Factories Asked to Set Heat Thresholds and Share Responsibility for Worker Protection During Extreme Heat |
Worker Safety |
AAFA Guidance |
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| Stylish Renewable Materials Win Techtextil Awards as DITF Projects Combine Design with Functionality and Biodegradability |
DITF Innovation |
Techtextil Awards |
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| Start-Ups Cross the Valley Between Textile Visibility and Factory Adoption |
Event Call |
ITMA 2027 |
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| The Race to Reinvent What We Wear Gets $34 Million from Bezos Earth Fund |
Material Innovation |
Bezos Fund |
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| Fashion Influence Is Moving Beyond the Capitals That Once Controlled It |
Fashion Footprint |
Modavision |
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| Europe’s Textile Future Will Be Decided by Infrastructure, Not Intention |
Event Preview |
SMART Convention |
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| Polycotton Recycling Faces a Scale Test That Chemistry Alone Cannot Solve |
Recycling Story |
Avantium |
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| Sustainability and Functionality Now Share the Same Commercial Test for Fabrics |
Event Roundup |
Intertextile Shanghai |
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| Western Fashion Has Not Just Left Russia; It Has Been Locked Out |
Exit Strategy |
Russa Market |
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| Evidence Challenges Claims of Waste Hidden in Clothing Trade Flows |
SecondHand |
Waste Flows |
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| Fluorescent Dye Technique Detects Nearly Three Times More Microfibres than Previously Used Conventional Methods |
Microfibre Pollution |
Detetections |
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| Renting Clothes Is Still Losing to the Comfort of Simply Buying New |
Second Chance |
Consumer Choice |
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| The Textile Industry's Recycling Problem Was Always a Design Problem |
Recycling Crisis |
Design Issue |
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| Recyclable Materials Mean Nothing if the Product Cannot Be Disassembled |
Rethinking Circularity |
Garments Apart |
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| Europe's Textile Recycling Push Hits a Wall; Fashion for Good Has a Plan to Break Through |
Recycling Crisis |
Project FAE |
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| So, Here's the Problem: Textile Factories in 10 Nations Face Inconsistent Environmental Permit Rules, UN Study Finds |
Supply Chains |
Permit Rules |
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| Circular Design Is Not Compromising Performance; It Is Redefining What Performance Means |
Rethinking Circularity |
Garments Apart |
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| One Piece of Cloth Can Now Do the Job of Multiple VR Controllers, New Research Shows |
Smart Fabrics |
VR Props |
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| The Sourcing Story: Industry Rewrote Its Geography Without Rewriting Its Dependence |
State of Sourcing |
China Angle |
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| Tanzanian Organic Cotton Carries One of the Lowest Climate Footprints in Global Production, LCA Finds |
Climate Crisis |
Tanzania Cotton |
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| Four Partners, One Jacket, and a New Logic for End-of-Life |
Rethinking Circularity |
Garments Apart |
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| Agricultural Byproduct Extract Delivers Simultaneous Dyeing and Finishing across Natural and Synthetic Fabrics |
Agri-Waste |
Rice Straw |
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