Bangladesh is the second-largest garment producer in the world. Dhaka is its beating heart—the engine room of global fast fashion. From here, millions of shirts, jeans, dresses, and dreams are shipped every week to malls and apps across the world. They arrive clean. Ironed. Trendy. And unbelievably cheap. The real question is not how cheap […]
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Fast fashion has become the world’s most democratic luxury. A ₹299 T-shirt. A ₹799 dress worn once for Instagram. A new trend every two weeks. Cheap. Fast. Disposable. But clothes, unlike selfies, don’t vanish after use. They travel. And increasingly, they end up in India. Not in closets. Not in charity. But in mountains of
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India’s handloom sector is not just an industry. It is a living civilisation. For over 2,000 years, handloom has shaped India’s economy, culture, identity, and rural livelihoods. Even today, the sector supports more than 4.3 million weavers, nearly 75% of them women, making it the second-largest rural employer after agriculture. Yet this ancient system is
The Sacred Thread Unraveling When Mahatma Gandhi began spinning khadi in 1918, he wasn’t just creating fabric—he was weaving freedom, self-reliance, and environmental harmony into every thread. The charkha became more than a spinning wheel; it symbolized India’s rejection of exploitative British mill-made textiles and the embrace of natural, handspun cloth that kept communities warm
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I didn’t start my latest fashion business because I saw a market opportunity. I started it because I saw a moral emergency. A couple of years ago, I looked closely at the fashion industry I had been working around for years—and realised something uncomfortable: Fashion is not broken by accident. It is broken by design.
A 5,000-Year Legacy Now Standing at the Edge When you drape a saree, you are not just wearing six yards of fabric. You are continuing a tradition that began nearly 5,000 years ago — long before most civilizations learned to write. Yet today, this living heritage stands at a dangerous crossroads: preservation or extinction. The
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Stop for a moment and look at the shirt you’re wearing. There’s a troubling chance it’s made of plastic. Not fabric that feels like plastic—actual plastic. Polyester, nylon, acrylic—these aren’t natural materials woven from plants or animals. They’re synthetic chemicals spun into thread, the same family of materials used to make water bottles and shopping
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For decades, fashion worked on a beautifully dishonest model. Make it cheap. Sell it fast. Dump the damage somewhere else. This week, the European Union quietly shattered that illusion. By officially passing the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law for textiles, the EU has done something rare in modern capitalism: it made the polluter financially accountable—not
In a world drowning in synthetic “fast fashion,” a profound shift is occurring within the Indian textile landscape. This movement isn’t just about clothes; it is about human dignity, environmental restoration, and the survival of a 5,000-year-old heritage. At the heart of this change is the Save Handloom Foundation and its two distinctive retail platforms,
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For years, resale was treated like a charity corner of fashion. Donate, discount, forget. Nice to have. Not serious. That phase is over. Today, resale is quietly turning into core infrastructure — like warehouses, trucks, and billing systems. You may not notice it yet, but the fashion industry surely has. What does “resale” actually mean?
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