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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
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
 
 
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Cotton Futures / CottonInc Study Analysis
Biogenic carbon absorbed during crop growth can invert a fibre's climate profile at the point of production though the permanence of that storage depends on what happens to the product after it leaves the farm.

The Fight Over Cotton's Future Is a Fight Over Accounting

  • Subir Ghosh

21 May 2026
Functional Clothing / Shapewear Feature
Shapewear's repositioning from corrective occasionwear to all-day comfort reflects a category reset driven by consumer demand for products that function across every context of daily life.

Shapewear Finally Stopped Selling Transformation and Started Selling Infrastructure

  • Subir Ghosh

15 May 2026
 
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Recycling Crisis / Tshirt Study Report
The environmental cost of a cotton t-shirt is set long before it reaches a shop floor, determined by cultivation, water use and the inefficiencies of industrial fibre processing.

Why Bangladesh Loses More Cotton Than Norway's Best Recycling System Can Ever Recover

  • Special Correspondent

28 May 2026
Cotton Production / Latin America Overview Interview
The distance between a validated research finding and its adoption on a working farm is rarely a scientific problem. It is an economic, institutional, and logistical one.

Inclusion or Concentration: Latin American Cotton Faces a Reckoning

  • Subir Ghosh

26 May 2026
 
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Consumer Trends / Viet Nam Commentary
Gen Z, with a population of over 15 million in Viet Nam, a tech-savvy, socially conscious cohort is flexing its economic muscle, projected to account for 40% of consumer spending by 2030. Their demand for transparency and sustainability is forcing brands to rethink their strategies.

Green Dreams or Greenwashing? Gen Z’s Battle for Sustainable Fashion in Viet Nam

  • Special Correspondent

18 June 2025
Designer Talk / Nimco Adam Interview
Fashion houses should pay fair wages, especially to the immigrants who are the backbone of many industries particularly the fashion houses where production takes more than 12+hours a day. They should include and adapt to the UN Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality, decent work and economic growth, industry innovation and infrastructure, reduce inequality, responsible consumption and production, and partnership for the Goals.

Live and Let Dye: Somali-American Designer Shows Way Beyond Chemicals

  • Subir Ghosh

23 August 2022