The Fabric Brief
By Anjali Khemani
Categories: Arts, Fashion & Beauty
A textiles, fashion and fabric daily brief covering daily business & science in 5 minutes, with textile educator Anjali Khemani.
40 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- The Fabric Brief — Friday, November 6: Africa's Five Hundred Billion Dollar Fashion Dream & Dhaka's Wage Fight Reaches a Crossroads
Today's brief: Africa's five hundred billion dollar fashion dream, Dhaka's wage fight at a crossroads, and wood pulp that regulates temperature.Top stories: Bangladesh's garment workers largely return to work as the wage board prepares its number, Africa unveils a five hundred billion dollar…
- The Fabric Brief — Wednesday, November 4: Dhaka's Wage Clock Starts Ticking & Fashion's Biggest Night Crowns Its Winners
Today's brief: a Dhaka pay deal with a date but no number, fashion's biggest night, a denim passport, and a teacup that took on Louis Vuitton.- Top stories: Bangladesh's wage board sets a December start for a revised garment pay scale without naming the raise, as protests enter day five; the CFDA…
- The Fabric Brief — Tuesday, November 3: Dhaka's Fourth Day on the Picket Line & Denim's Nineties Comeback
Today's brief: a fourth day of walkouts in Dhaka, a nineties denim label stirs, Europe's fashion giants split on earnings, and a jacket grown from seaweed.• Top stories: Bangladesh's garment wage protests enter a fourth day despite a new wage board; Arvind explores a Ruf & Tuf denim revival as…
- The Fabric Brief — Monday, November 2: Dhaka's Wage Fight Gets Real & Aditya Birla's Profit Doubles
Today's brief: a Dhaka walkout over wages, a doubled Indian fashion profit, Europe's war on wasted clothes, and polyester that changes colour without new dye.• Top stories: nearly a million Bangladeshi garment workers walk out demanding a 30,000-taka minimum wage; Aditya Birla Lifestyle Brands…
- The Fabric Brief — Sunday, November 1
A five-minute daily briefing on fashion and textiles, hosted by Nina and Marco. Made by textile educator Anjali Khemani.
- The Fabric Brief — Saturday, October 31
Nina on India's cotton duty extension, Paithani on the Mumbai runway, Halloween costume textiles, Primark's Circ recycling deal, ROICA stretch fibres, and the Etro motif dispute.
- The Fabric Brief — Friday, October 30
Nina on Adidas's record quarter, the UK's October sales surprise, water hyacinth luxury knitwear, Shein's hundred-million-dollar settlement, AI textile sorting, and who owns the hand.
- The Fabric Brief — Thursday, October 29
The Fabric Brief — Thursday, October 29
- The Fabric Brief — Wednesday, October 28
Nina on Lagos Fashion Week opening in heritage Aso-Oke and Adire cloth, Indonesia's modest fashion sourcing pitch, India's duty-free cotton extension, Arvind's profit jump under margin pressure, sewing threads designed to dissolve for recycling, and US tariff relief tied to American cotton.
- The Fabric Brief — Tuesday, October 27
Nina on Brightfiber halting production in Amsterdam, Recover's REAL campaign and recycled cotton in 200 million garments, AK|OK's Supima collaboration, Levi's tariff refund lawsuit, how mechanical recycling shortens cotton fibres, and whether fashion buys today or just promises someday.
- The Fabric Brief — Monday, October 26
Nina on Arvind's new Varanasi garment plant, Portland's Functional Fabric Fair, eighty years of the bikini, Pakistan's tariff reforms, the Green Machine that separates polycotton, and whether clothing repair is a real industry.
- The Fabric Brief — Sunday, October 25
Nina on India's fabric boom and garment dip, Bangladesh's textile-education push, Negros wedding weavers, the Levi's tariff refund lawsuit, recolouring polyester with supercritical carbon dioxide, and leather's climate manifesto.
- The Fabric Brief — Sunday, October 25
India sells more cloth to the world, but fewer clothes, Bangladesh bets on its own textile brains, and wedding weavers take the runway in Negros.
- The Fabric Brief — Saturday, October 24
Nina on Frasers taking control of Hugo Boss, Vietnam's push to make its own fabric, recycled fire-service uniforms, Shein's one hundred million dollar settlement, A I knittability checks, and Bangladesh's imported cloth debate.
- The Fabric Brief — Friday, October 23
Nina on Samant Chauhan's twenty years of Bhagalpur silk, Ankur Verma's waste-first Still Becoming collection, Trützschler's TC 30 card, India's split September export surge, recolouring polyester with supercritical carbon dioxide, and Europe's two-tier waste paperwork relief.
- The Fabric Brief — Thursday, October 22
Nina on Woolmark's natural-fibre findings, algae-based black pigment, AI and craft at the BRICS+ summit, Bangladesh's yarn import fight, a touchscreen woven into a sleeve, and Pakistan's EU trade warning.
- The Fabric Brief — Wednesday, October 21
Nina on the Blue Earth materials finalists, water hyacinth at Lakme Fashion Week, Renaissance Fiber's hemp factory, China's September export surge, MIT's melt-and-respin stretch yarn, and the Levi's tariff-refund lawsuit.
- The Fabric Brief — Tuesday, October 20
Nina on Archroma and Prosperity's denim partnership, NikeSkims' first outerwear, Wrangler's hay-repelling sherpa, the India-New Zealand trade deal, Toray's recycled composite fibre, and Europe's new PFAS limits for clothing.
- The Fabric Brief — Monday, October 19
Nina on Yui Chen's Hyères win, patterns from a photograph, circular sorting at scale, Gildan's tariff refunds, a seamless recycled yarn, and the great sweater gender gap.
- The Fabric Brief — Sunday, October 18
Nina on the Fantasy Bra's return, clothes from human hair at Dutch Design Week, Finland rewarding repair, Bangladesh losing EU share on price, what the GOTS label really proves, and luxury's ban on shredding unsold clothes.
- The Fabric Brief — Saturday, October 17
Nina on Raymond's hemp shirting, sheep that burp less methane, LVMH opening its workshops, Brunello Cucinelli bucking the luxury slump, a 93 percent recycled composite fibre, and how many stripes make a brand.
- The Fabric Brief — Friday, October 16
a daily fashion-and-textiles briefing covering the day's top stories, economics, textile science, and industry controversy.
- The Fabric Brief — Thursday, October 15
a daily fashion-and-textiles briefing covering the day's top stories, economics, textile science, and industry controversy.
- The Fabric Brief — Wednesday, October 14
a daily fashion-and-textiles briefing covering the day's top stories, economics, textile science, and industry controversy.
- The Fabric Brief — Tuesday, October 13
a daily fashion-and-textiles briefing covering the day's top stories, economics, textile science, and industry controversy.
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