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Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear has become one of the defining fashion shifts of the past decade, moving from gym bag to daily wardrobe with a speed that caught even its own industry off guard. The clothes now travel everywhere: errands, social occasions, the school run, the home office. What has not travelled with them, new research suggests, is the confidence the industry has spent years promising they would deliver.

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White gold, green future

Cotton production

There are few industries that are under pressure both from within and outside to pull up its socks than the textiles-apparel-fashion industry. And there are few agricultural crops/products that that have so much of an overarching bearing on countless industries down a longwinding supply chain as cotton; and in this case, it would be the same textiles-apparel-fashion industry. There have been enough damning reports—some contentious, others not—about the way cotton is cultivated and the adverse...

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Nagalim has never been a part of India

Muivah and Swu

He was barely in his thirties, when this strapping young man trekked all the way to China braving dense jungles, treacherous passes and hostile forces all around. More than 30 years later, the magic still works. The twinkle in his eyes unmistakable, the general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN), Thuingaleng Muivah, retains a charm and sharp intellect that makes him the leader of the most potent and dreaded insurgent organisation in the Northeast. Back again in Nagalim...

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