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The fashion industry is constantly advancing, changing, and reinventing itself. However, the traditional fabric sourcing process of physical fabric samples requires suppliers to send thousands of fabric swatches to designers, brands, and houses so that they can create their designs. The worst part is that they often select only 5% of all samples sent. It makes the apparel production process slower, expensive, and environmentally harmful. According toBloomberg, fashion accounts for up to 10...

Does AI Hold the Key to Environmental Sustainability? While the notion of Artificial Intelligence might conjure up images of the latest cutting-edge technology seen in sci-fi movies, the basic concept of AI is a lot simpler than that. In fact, according to its most basic definition, AI is just the ability of machines – particularly computerized systems – to do things that generally require human intelligence. It includes items that we’ve been using in our day-to-day lives ...

The textile and fashion industries have taken significant measures to prioritize decarbonization to reduce CO2 emissions. Hence, companies are encouraged to disclose their fabrics’ CO2 emissions and help keep accurate track of carbon footprints. Therefore, data is an essential factor in accomplishing these incentives. As a result, organizations are shifting their focus towards methods that provide precise data to ensure the most recent and reliable data is available and accessible to the respe...

In the current technology-driven market, balancing growth and adopting modern digitization tools is no longer an option for brands in the textile and fashion industries. However, there are several challenges and barriers to overcome to start their textile digitization journey. In reality, digital transformation requires modern technology tools, expertise, and guidance. Having no roadmap and unclear expectations will doom your efforts and become a disaster. Digital transformation strate...

The global textile production within the supply chain has been tremendously impacted in the last years by the pandemic. Nonetheless, it has created massive opportunities for suppliers and textile manufacturers to expand their business rapidly. Digital technologies are an under-utilized tool in driving growth and sustainability in the textile industry. Today, many companies in the textile industry are on their way toward a digital transformation by tapping into expert digital advice, taking part...

The world is in the midst of an unprecedented global energy crisis. Following a drop in energy demand from 2019-2020, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, a slow response to demand recovery resulted in a supply-demand imbalance. As a result, rationing has been implemented in some countries, with electricity restrictions in China proving particularly problematic in terms of reduced capacity for production for factories. Image source: Unsplash Coupl...

It's no secret that the textile industry has a detrimental effect on the environment — every inch of fabric produced amounts to extra pressure on the Earth and its natural resources. Aside from accounting for an estimated 10% of global greenhouse emissions, clothing production impacts the environment in several other important ways. Firstly, there's the issue of water usage. A staggering 93 billion cubic liters of water is consumed by the textile industry annually, according to...

Incendiary summer temperatures have set global records in 2022. In the United States alone, 1,200 locations across two dozen states experienced unprecedented heat levels. Wildfires wreaked havoc, with over 7.33 million acres of land burned as of August 30. In ordinarily temperate parts of the world, green fields and parks have been reduced to rusty hay after weeks of no rain. The United Kingdom, renowned for its summer showers, has seen record-smashing temperat...

The PI Apparel conference for product development leaders was held in New York last month. During the two-day event, innovative minds from fashion, apparel, and footwear came together to discuss the challenges and technologies disrupting the industry and the strategies for advancing digital product creation. This year’s hot topics were digital fabric interoperability and scalability. Digitization affects every aspect of the apparel business...

According to the World Bank, greenhouse gas emissions for the woefully traditional fashion industry are on track to increase by more than 50% by 2023. Amid such a dismal outlook, the possibility of a carbon border tax on brands looms large. Many fashion brands want to evolve their ESG practices and be more sustainable, not just in fear of taxes but in the sincere desire to lessen their carbon impact. However, many have no idea how to start in an industry with such complex and long-es...

The last two years of the covid pandemic upended our everyday lives and brought a catalog of difficulties to businesses.Supply chains were disrupted,many companies suffered,and someclosed their doors for good. Yet, as we look to the future, we see that the apparel and fashionindustrynow has the chance to turn these challenges into opportunities todevelop a more streamlined, resilient, and sustainable way of working. (Source: BOF-MCKINSEY STATE OF FASHION 2022 SURVEY) ...

The metaverse is well and truly upon us. You can't turn a corner without hearing about NFTs, AR and VR technology, avatars, and countless other buzzwords. But why should the fashion industry care about the metaverse, what are the implications of not embracing it, and what impact is this new digital era having on the notoriously sluggish fashion supply chain? Metaverse Origins You might think the metaverse is a new-fangled term since Mr. Zuckerberg announced the Facebook to Meta name ...