$120 Crude, Zero Margin: How India’s textile hubs are paying the price
For India’s textile clusters, the current West Asia crisis is no longer a distant geopolitical headline. In Surat’s polyester corridors and Ludhiana’s knitwear factories, it has become a live spreadsheet problem. Every escalation in the US-Iran standoff now transmits directly... Read more
Luxury under pressure as stagflation and geopolitics redefine the winners’ …
The 2025 earnings for Europe’s listed luxury majors have delivered a verdict that has far more implications than the prevailing industry slowdown narrative suggests. Beneath the headline anxiety lies a sharper truth: the global luxury sector is not declining uniformly, it is fragmenting.... Read more
Luxury resale goes global, sneakers, handbags, archival fashion redrawing b…
The luxury resale market in 2026 is no longer a monolithic global block. According to the RB Insights January 2026 report, the industry has evolved into a sophisticated ‘Geography of Desire’, where consumer behavior, cultural context, and logistical efficiency dictate regional domi... Read more
China out but can India deliver? The realities of the global sourcing shift
With the US imposing a flat 15 per cent tariff on Chinese imports under Section 122 as of February 2026, brands are scrambling for alternatives. The assumption that this diverted business will flow seamlessly to India is proving overly simplistic. While Indian textile exporters are looking at ... Read more
Luxury in Retreat: Why the aspirational consumer is gone for good
The global luxury industry is confronting an unprecedented situation. The active consumer base, which peaked at 400 million in 2022, has shrunk to roughly 340 million entering 2026, a 60-million-customer exodus concentrated in the aspirational middle class. Bain & Company’s latest da... Read more
The Invisible Bleed: How a single chemical is slowing India’s apparel machi…
The global fashion industry has spent the better part of the past two years obsessing over visible disruptions viz. volatile cotton prices, container shortages, and geopolitical fractures in trade routes. Yet, beneath this noise, a far less visible but far more structurally dangerous crisis is... Read more
Malbon Golf signals strategic shift towards China’s expanding performance-l…
The opening of Malbon Golf’s first flagship store in Shanghai marks a def... Read more
Sulzer-Spinnova alliance accelerates commercial scaling of sustainable wood…
The partnership between Swiss engineering giant Sulzer and Finnish textile inno... Read more
ABB and Syre forge engineering alliance to scale circular polyester output
The partnership between ABB and Syre represents a significant technical leap to... Read more
Indian apparel sector gains short-term relief as RoDTEP scheme secures exte…
The Indian government has signaled its continued commitment to the nation&rsquo... Read more
Reconomy, ReHubs partnership anchors Europe’s closed-loop textile infrastru…
The European textile recycling landscape has reached a critical inflection poin... Read more
Reju funding infusion signals industrial-scale transition for circular poly…
Reju has secured €135 million in funding from the Dutch government’s... Read more