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Hanging by a Thread: US Tariffs cripple Indian textile exports, orders…

India’s textile and apparel industry is facing an unexpected mid-cycle rupture that is reshaping the sector’s economics far faster than policymakers anticipated. What began as a favourable season for the spinning and raw-material economy, egged on by a weak rupee and heavy government-led cotto... Read more

Sourcing's new compass, navigating apparel's great migration beyond As…

The global apparel sourcing business is redefining the metrics of success beyond traditional labor costs. Led by geopolitical risks, consumer demands for sustainability, and the need for greater agility, brands are adopting multi-regional strategies and looking to a new generation of sourcing partne... Read more

No A-Grades for Climate: What the fossil-free fashion scorecard reveal…

For years, the global fashion industry has promised a cleaner, greener future but 2025’s Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard by STAND.earth offers a sobering verdict: not a single major brand has earned an ‘A’ for decarbonization. Despite public pledges, glossy sustainability reports, an... Read more

Wired Threads: How India’s textile backbone is powering the smart appa…

India’s huge textile industry, long celebrated for its command over cotton and competitive manufacturing scale, is going through a foundational redesign. At the heart of this shift lies an emerging consumer appetite for textiles that do more than drape and insulate. Fabrics are being engineere... Read more

The New Core Competency: How sustainability and advanced fabrics are d…

The SportTech Pavilion at Techtextil India, hosted by Concepts N Strategies, concluded with a unanimous declaration: for India to successfully execute its "Premium Mandate" and move "Beyond CMT," technical textile innovation and radical sustainability are non-negotiable. The future of Indian activewear reli... Read more

New EU import rules set to raise prices for Shein and Temu, boosting E…

Europe’s fashion and textile scenario is on the verge of its most consequential structural shift in over a decade. The European Union’s plan to abolish the €150 de minimis customs exemption for non-EU e-commerce imports, now fast-tracked for implementation by early 2026 is ready to ... Read more

Tariffs, turbulence and tenacity, India’s textile sector finds new str…

India’s textile and apparel export sector is showing a remarkable capacity to adapt and thrive in one of the most turbulent global trade environments in recent years. From punitive US tariff shocks to unpredictable demand cycles across international markets, the sector’s first-half performance... Read more

Profit with Purpose: Inside the 35% margin boom in upcycled fashion wh…

The secondhand wholesale sector, once seen as the back end of fashion, is now leading a quiet revolution, one that blends sustainability, technology, and profit. A new white paper, ‘The Financial Impact of Upcycling and Value-Added Services on Secondhand Wholesalers in 2025’, reveals how upcyc... Read more

Beyond CMT: Collaboration, not competition, is India’s new growth stra…

The journey for India’s activewear industry to move "Beyond CMT" (Cut, Make, Trim) and capture the global premium mandate is not constrained by market demand or labor, but by structural bottlenecks in the supply chain, investment philosophy, and training. Panel discussions at the Techtextil India SportTech Pavi... Read more

Inside Lululemon’s toughest year, tariffs, trend misses, and the fight…

For over a decade, Lululemon Athletica embodied everything the premium athleisure revolution stood for technical mastery, community-driven branding, and an almost cult-like customer following. Its rise was clean and uninterrupted, a masterclass in premium positioning. But 2025 has delivered an uncomfortab... Read more

Anti-Dumping probe on Chinese PTY threatens to negate QCO rollback ben…

Just days after the Indian government withdrew Quality Control Orders (QCOs) on Polyester Textured Yarn (PTY) and other textile inputs to boost the cost-competitiveness of the downstream industry, the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has initiated a fresh anti-dumping investigation into PTY im... Read more

India's new ‘Labour Codes’ weave global compliance into apparel export…

The full implementation of India's four consolidated Labour Codes (The Code on Wages, The Industrial Relations Code, The Code on Social Security, and The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code) marks a strategic overhaul of the country’s industrial framework, particularly bene... Read more

Cotton’s fragile comeback, how the US-China truce is redrawing global …

When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping announced a fragile peace in Busan last week, most of the attention in financial circles revolved around soybeans, chips, and rare earths. But beneath the surface, the most immediate tremor was felt in the world’s oldest commodity trade, cotton. The... Read more

Q3 Lyst Index reveals a turning point, Saint Laurent rises, Loewe slum…

In a fashion industry often driven by noise viral micro-trends, rapid-fire drops, and overstated marketing the third quarter of 2025 delivered a surprising truth: quiet power is winning. Lyst’s Q3 Index, the global barometer of what consumers are searching, buying, and obsessing over, has crowned Sa... Read more

Fashion’s Next Playbook: Leaders at WWD summit push for radical transf…

On October 29 and 30, the marble halls of Cipriani South Street became the nerve center of a global fashion industry at an inflection point. At the annual ‘WWD Apparel & Retail CEO Summit’, executives from the world’s most influential brands gathered against a backdrop of economic vo... Read more

Tariff turbulence spurs transformation in India’s textile value chain

When the US announced a sweeping 50 per cent tariff on Indian textile and apparel imports, the shockwaves reverberated across India’s factory floors and policy circles alike. The move, ostensibly aimed at protecting American manufacturing threatened to upend a sector that employs over 45 million peo... Read more

A Punishing Paradox: Is Made in America unravelling the US textile ind…

The Make America Great Again (MAGA) is initiative aimed at breathing new life into US manufacturing, but its impact on the textile and apparel sector has created a stark paradox. While the industry is innovating and shifting towards high-tech production, the very trade policies intended to protect it are ... Read more

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