Europe’s Textile Endgame: Why Project FAE is becoming fashion’s most critic…
Europe’s apparel majors are no longer treating circularity as a branding layer. With Project FAE or Feedstock Activation Europe, the industry has entered a harder phase of capital formation: building the missing industrial infrastructure that turns textile waste into usable raw material.... Read more
Engineering color at source, dye-free production is cutting cost, water, an…
For over a century, coloring has been anchored in wet processing, an energy-intensive, chemically saturated stage that happen post spinning. That architecture is now being dismantled. A new production logic, Dye-Free Operation (DFO), is relocating color from the dye bath to the fiber itself, c... Read more
The €11 bn deadlock, can Europe’s textile recycling catch up?
Europe is at a tipping point. Fast fashion consumption, led by rising incomes and a growing global middle class, has outpaced the continent’s ability to manage its textile waste. A landmark report by ReHubs and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) warns of a looming textile circularity gap,... Read more
From field to fiber, Bharat CottonNet is closing India’s cotton value gap
India’s cotton economy is entering a decisive phase of reform with the rollout of Bharat CottonNet 2026 along with the Mission for Cotton Productivity. Policymakers and industry stakeholders are looking to correct a long-standing inefficiency that is: the disconnect between cotton farms ... Read more
US apparel imports drop 13.5% as Vietnam gains and China’s grip breaks
The US apparel sourcing market has entered 2026 with a sharp demand decline but an equally important shift in supplier preference. Latest OTEXA data for January shows total apparel imports falling to $6.22 billion, down 13.51 per cent year-on-year from $7.19 billion, confirming that American r... Read more
H&M finds growth below revenue line as margin discipline pays off
H&M Group’s latest quarter signals a decisive shift in global fast fashion: scale is no longer the primary reason for success. In a quarter marked by cautious consumer demand, store rationalisation and currency headwinds, the Swedish retailer delivered a sharp earnings recovery by pr... Read more
Lycra shields high-risk workwear markets with launch of new antistatic fibe…
The Lycra Company has officially unveiled its proprietary Lycra Antistatic fibe... Read more
Ray-Ban leverages Jennie Kim for global smart eyewear push
Ray-Ban has officially inaugurated a new chapter in its brand evolution by appo... Read more
Structural imbalance hinders Pakistan’s textile export recovery despite app…
Latest data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) for the first nine mon... Read more
Italian pavilion emerges as a major hub for autonomous production at Techte…
As the global apparel sector navigates chronic labor instability and soaring en... Read more
Isko Luxury by PG reclaims handcrafted artistry amid the rise of synthetic …
As the textile industry increasingly grapples with the integration of generativ... Read more
Bangladeshi leader gains global recognition amidst sustainable apparel push
The selection of Syed Iqbal Akhter Rizvi for the 6th Global Changemaker Award i... Read more