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Title Date
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
The Young India Fashion Survey 2025: Clothing Habits, Sustainability Choices and Style Influences
EuRIC and FEAD Suggest 10-Fold Pathway till EPR Schemes Are in Place
Brands Should Commit to Electrification Targets and Provide Financial Support to Suppliers in Building Renewable Electricity Capacity
Report Calls for Rewarding Sustainable Practices in UK Industry, Level-Playing Field Would Be Crucial
 
 
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Event Roundup / Intertextile Shanghai Report
Trade fairs have always gathered the industry in one place. What has changed is what happens between the booths—where frameworks, not just fabrics, are now being circulated and absorbed.

Fashion's Supply Chain Finds Its Compass and It Points Towards Shanghai

  • Special Correspondent

27 March 2026
War Effects / Surat Exodus Feature
The decision to leave is rarely about wages alone; it is about whether a city can sustain the basic conditions that make staying possible. In Surat, those conditions have collapsed.

Paying for a Distant War: Surat's Migrant Textile Workforce Is Leaving 'Coz It has Run Out of Gas

  • Richa Bansal

27 March 2026
 
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Going Circular / EOL Textiles / III Report
Textile recovery depends not only on what is collected but on whether the system receiving it has the capacity to distinguish value from waste at scale.

The Recycling System Was Not Built for What It Receives

  • Special Correspondent

3 April 2026
Going Circular / EOL Textiles / II Report
Policy frameworks for textile circularity are being assembled across Europe at legislative speed, but the industrial and logistical conditions they depend on are taking longer to arrive.

The Real Test of Textile Policy Is Not Ambition but What Survives Contact

  • Special Correspondent

2 April 2026
 
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Wool / Swimwear Feature
Is it time to rethink wearing wool as you head to the beach this summer?

Wool Swimsuits Used to Be Standard Beachwear – Is It Time to Bring Them Back?

  • Lorinda Cramer

21 December 2022
Fashion Accessories / Buttons Feature
Ecuador exports between 700 and 1,200 tonnes of corozo blanks per year. In 2011, the demand for the corozo skyrocketed, with 2,000 tonnes (about 1.5 billion blanks) exported. The goal is for demand to return to these levels because it helps people not to cut down the forests where corozo grows wild, since they can live on what the forest offers them.

A Rainforest, Palm Trees and Blanks that Make for Buttons

  • Richa Bansal

2 January 2023