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How can craft serve as a potent climate solution? What are the critical areas for intervention needed for a sustainable craft ecosystem? Is craft a catalyst for sustainable fashion? What are the interventions needed for a sustainable craft ecosystem? A just-released report answers these questions and explores more. 

As one of the biggest events to be held in Latin America, PI Apparel Medellin this year is significant both for the region itself as well as the overall global context in which it is set to kick off on Wednesday. Two people in the thick and thin of things set the tone: Carmen Caballero, President of ProColombia, and Monica Afonso, Conference Producer at PI Apparel.

About a decade or so ago, Colombian textile giant Fabricato was fast receding into oblivion and irrelevance, and many doubted if the company could live to see its centenary in 2020. But Fabricato turned it all around. Sales Director Giorgio Lignarolo sheds sheds more light on how Fabricato did it.

As Expo Riva Schuh & Gardabags gears up for its 100th edition in January 2024, texfash.com talks to Roberto Pellegrini, President of the Riva del Garda Fierecongressi Spa, the trade fair’s organising company to learn about its focus on sustainability, innovation and more. Joining in are his colleagues Enrico Cietta, Matteo Pasca, William Wong, and Alberto Mattiello.

There is a growing appetite among some fashion retailers to turn old clothes into high-quality fibres, and then into new clothes. But even though well-known brands are developing lines using recycled textiles, this movement has not yet reached the scale needed to have a truly global impact.

A cleantech biochemical start-up Nature Coatings has given the world perhaps its first carbon-negative black pigment — the BioBlack TX — sourced from FSC certified wood waste. texfash.com talks to the Founder-CEO Jane Palmer on her journey this far.

An acceptable definition for sustainable fashion, informed by standards and baselines, could empower consumers to make more informed decisions about their purchases. With Gen-Z labelled the sustainable generation, it is time for fashion to reform.

Brain drain has long been argued to be one of Africa’s key development challenges. Drawing on interviews with 31 fashion designers but focusing on the career geography of internationally renowned Kofi Ansah, researchers show how ‘brain drain’ turned into ‘brain gain’ and consequently ‘brain circulation’, fundamentally transforming Ghana’s fashion industry. 

Ichnological evidence from three palaeosurfaces on South Africa’s Cape coast, in conjunction with neoichnological study, suggests that humans may indeed have worn footwear while traversing dune surfaces during the Middle Stone Age.

Charting a radical new standard that designs elimination of fabric waste, the Shelly Xu Design (SXD) technology uses machine-learning and AI to create patterns that use every scrap of fabric efficiently. Award-winning designer Shelly Xu tells texfash.com how she combines great design with “bleeding-edge” technology.