Most textileapparel brands are failing on sustainable cotton benchmarks, a recent survey as many as 37 international brands has found. Lack of uptake of more sustainable cotton is being seen as a massive missed opportunity. Subir Ghosh leafs through the 3
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Arnab Senapati graduated from Kala Bhavana, VisvaBharati University, Santiniketan with majors in Textile Design and History of Art. He completed his postgraduation diploma programme in Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad majoring in Textil
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Todays environmental landscape is constantly evolving and a focus on sustainability is increasingly important both from business and consumer perspective say Samit Chevli and Renee Henze.
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Investment in industrylevel research and development can give consumers a meaningful metric of sustainability
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The cotton industry is turning to innovation to help it weather challenging growing conditions ahead.
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Gone are the days when sustainable clothing was shapeless, foggy, and drabcolored. Available in a broad range of superstylish designs, bright colors, and fun fabric prints, ecoclothing has stepped into prime time, and is on its way to gaining a firm footh
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Viscose has been a fibre loved by consumers on account of its excellent attributes of comfort, fluid drape and aesthetic appeal, write Ajay Sardana and Amit Dayal
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Cotton, by and large, is the fibre that the textiles and apparel industry is made of. Even as a substantial chunk of the industry has migrated to other natural and manmade fibres, cotton still remains its soul. Subir Ghosh looks at some trends that may de
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The ecofriendly clothing revolution is growing stronger by the day, says Jon Klein.The customer has proved to be king. And queen. The choice of consumers is driving the movement for sustainable, ecofriendly material in their what they wear, whether it be
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There is much debate over where taking greater environmental and social responsibility within apparel should lie, but the truth is we all have a part to play.To help drive innovation and sustainability in textiles to move towards a cleaner, greener, effic
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India has the strengths in terms of raw material availability, manpower availability, large domestic market, presence of complete manufacturing value chain and government support. This has enabled growth of the industry. To sustain the growth that the Ind
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The United Natios 1987 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development Our Common Future noted that sustainable development would have to meet the needs of the present without compromising the wellbeing of future generations. Scientists have
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The global testing, inspection and certification TIC market will well cross the 100 billion mark in another five years. The importance of TIC in the textilesapparel context is paramount. Subir Ghosh looks at growing demand for TIC in the Indian market. Th
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Consumer awareness has led to changes in production techniques and strategies so as to optimise output and reduce harmful effects on the planet, writes Harsh Shah. Fashion trends in India vary and change with each season, and although companies do their a
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To establishment a sustainable and circular textile industry, future textile professionals need to understand and capitalise on all possibilities of digitalisation to save costs and resources, say Lorenz Wied and Anton Schumann. In the midst of the fourth
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The Third International Conference on Biobased Textiles in Ghent, Belgium on October 16 demonstrated rapid progress in research and development, but the biobased textiles segment still remains handicapped by uncompetitive prices, Jozef De Coster reports.M
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At a time when companies are still grappling with the very idea of how to make fashion sustainable, there is an endeavour that is showing that one can be sustainable, transparent, and empower women at the grassroots level at one go. Subir Ghosh reports on
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The Green Fashion India GFI event, this time in its sixth edition, saw industry leaders and experts addressing a sizeable crowd of fashion students. Meher Castelino reports.How green is fashion in India Is it on a sustainable path so that all stakeholders
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Far away from the public glare in research centres and labs around the world, thousands of textile engineers, chemists and other specialists are continually inventing, testing and adapting green processes and products. Jozef De Coster writes about innovat
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The onedollar Tshirt is now virtually an impossibility, and the social and ecological cost of producing the worlds cheapest Tshirt is intolerably high. Jozef De Coster, reports from Apparel Sourcing Paris February 1114, 2019.With around 350 exhibitors, Ap
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Recycling and Upcycling are two of the biggest trends of the new year. Bionic Yarn and Sea2See are just two suppliers that have been recycling and upcycling plastic from the ocean into new apparel. From eyewear to winter coats, plastic waste has been inco
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Sustainable apparel fabric suppliers are taking advantage of a remarkable new source of material agricultural waste, the discarded byproducts from the cultivation of orange, banana, sugarcane, and other crops.Food crop agriculture creates a tremendous amo
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From kelp textiles to biodegradable glitter, fashion pushes fabric to the limitFashion trends urged textile companies toward more creative and sustainable practices in the last decade. The next ten years promise to yield even more innovations in the fabri
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1.Polyester will continue to 1 drive global fibre market Global fibre consumption has increased from 29 million tonnes in 1980 to 97 million tonnes in 2018, and the market has brought with it a change in the consumption patterns. Cotton has limitation for
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Many brands are pledging to transition to sustainable fabrics, but some are dragging their feet.The Spanish fastfashion brand Zara made headlines recently with a bold sustainability claim. Zaras movement toward an ecofriendly future now includes a full tr
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