Decoding ESG: Sri Lanka as a sandbox for upscaling sustainable textile innovation

In the last decade, the global fashion, apparel, and textile industry has been dominated by ‘speed to market’ and ‘fast fashion’. As a result, the twin impacts of improved ‘just-in-time’ production capabilities and e-commerce fashion retail resulted in the entire fashion supply chain being incentivised to pump out more innovative fabric and functional designs at a faster pace than ever before, simply to stay ‘on trend’.