Innovation

Ponda's wetland-grown insulation BioPuff® featured in Genaro Rivas' menswear at London's Spitalfields Market on 29 July, as part of his SS27 collection. The milestone follows a £2.4 million DEFRA grant for bulrush paludiculture and an Inn

Delhi's BhashaBharat has patented Warp Manipulation, shifting warp threads during weaving to create structural motifs that resist powerloom copying, launched via its Blush Loom Kurta Set ahead of National Handloom Day. The technique, born f

Harvard researchers have knitted fabrics that snap between stable shapes and double as soft switches or sensors, using standard machines with no rigid electronics. Published in Advanced Functional Materials, the work already has prototypes

SMIT has developed a fully recyclable polyethylene stretch yarn as a spandex alternative, meltable and respinnable without separation, unlike blended spandex fibers. It solves a major recycling gap in activewear textiles. Indian manufacture

Rimzim Dadu's INLAE at India Couture Week 2026 turns mother-of-pearl into a flexible textile, engineered into her signature steel wire and metallic cord structures. It signals Indian couture's shift toward material innovation as intellectua

Researchers in China have created a living fungal fabric that can self-clean, repair itself, and biodegrade within 41 days. The innovation could reshape sustainable fashion by enabling biodegradable, functional textiles without synthetic tr

In a candid conversation with Apparel Resources, Sanjay Gupta, Design Education Evangelist VC, World University Of Design discusses about the far broader reach and potential of creative industries as they span India’s crafts and handlooms

Designers and brands are now embracing the power of nature to create a more sustainable, safer and healthier world through plant-based innovations.

Despite the dent caused by COVID-19 in the fashion and retailscape, the number of brands using next-gen materials in their products has significantly increased along with the supply of next-gen materials. In this report, we highlight the ke