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From tackling the garment industry’s waste challenges, to proving a product’s provenance and providing infinite creative opportunities for designers, ‘digital twins’ – a digital reproduction of real-life clothing or accessories – are already providing significant benefits.

Lui Iarocheski, VP of marketing and new ventures at PlatformE – a Porto, Portugal-based fashion tech company offering mass customisation at scale for fashion brands told Just Style: “The beauty of a digital twin is that it carries rich data.…

Alcohol-free beverages have come a long way since the 1970s when they were targeted at vehicle drivers worried about losing their licences. But with a decrease in per-capita consumption of alcohol among many higher-income markets, many consumers who normally drink alcohol are becoming “sober curious” – looking for non-alcoholic alternatives, according to Andrew Greenhill, an assistant professor for microbiology and fermentation technology at Federation University, Victoria, Australia.…

Political branding can encourage or deter clothing sales, say marketing experts, with the risks and rewards growing where political polarisation intensifies. The key US market is certainly a case in point. Research published in the January-February 2023 issue of the academic journal Marketing Science, by the US-based Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, concluded that, following Donald Trump’s presidential electoral victory in 2016, political polarisation was increasingly extended to consumers’ preferences.…

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has updated its Principles for the Regulation and Supervision of Commodity Derivatives Markets, the first major overhaul of this core guidance since 2011. IOSCO said the changes were designed “to provide a resilient framework for the regulation and oversight of the commodity derivatives markets”, taking account of recent market developments and international events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.…

Ford Europe’s February 14 announcement that it will axe 3,800 jobs in Europe over the next three years is designed to ensure the US major’s European arm survives as a more focused electric vehicle (EV) brand, but some experts wonder Ford can prevent this key wing downsizing further in future.…

Global trade officials at the World Customs Association (WCO) are assessing how the international customs classification of goods could be reformed to promote the trade in sustainable goods, such as organic cotton fabrics.

They are examining changing the WCO’s Harmonized System (HS), which links traded goods to six-digit codes, recognised by all jurisdictions participating in the global trading system, so that special HS codes can be allocated to goods deemed sustainable – including clothes made from recycled fabrics.…

An expansion drive by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chip maker, is expected to be helpful for US automakers, increasing supply and decreasing supply chain risks, industry observers believe. TSMC is now building a new facility also in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture.…

Traceable pigments are increasingly being used as a favoured trackable method to help textile and garment companies prove that cellulosic fibres utilised in fabric and final products have been made according to high social and environmental sustainability standards. With regulation, non-financial reporting and green consumer demand pushing the industry towards using fabrics that are demonstrably sustainable, cellulosic fibres derived from wood pulp and other woody plants such as bamboo, have become more attractive as inputs.…

EUROPEAN textile businesses are gearing up to implement new European Union (EU) digital product passports (DPPs), that an EU official told Textile 4.0 will “require a re-thinking of how textile supply chains work”.  

Plans for these passports – which are expected to become mandatory for companies selling into the EU – were announced in the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles (1) and the eco-design for sustainable products regulation (ESPR) (2), released by the European Commission on March 30, 2022, as part of the EU’s circular economy reform package.…

India’s textile sector is working with the country’s strong IT industry and professionals to deliver monitoring and labelling systems that comply with forthcoming digital product passport (DPP) requirements being pioneered especially in the European Union (EU). Its executive, the EU, released plans last March (2022), to pass rules that would insist that products, including textile lines, are released with detailed electronic information demonstrating that their materials sourcing and final manufacture are sustainable.…