About Cotton News
Cotton is hugely important to the clothing and textile industry: the majority of fashion worn on the planet is made from cotton or cotton blended fabrics. Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the family Malvaceae, and the fiber is almost pure cellulose. It is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. Genetically modified cotton was developed to reduce the heavy reliance on pesticides, while organic cotton is generally understood as cotton from plants that are not genetically modified and that is certified to be grown without synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilizers or pesticides.
Because cotton touches every stage of the industry, its news is wide: crop and market reports, fiber and yarn trade stories, fabric developments and garment business news. The resources on this page reflect that range — cotton organizations and market pages alongside the live headline searches and the textile routes on Apparel Search.
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Reading Cotton News
This page is the cotton front door of the Apparel Search news directory. The full set of news categories is laid out in the mosaic at the top of the page — audience categories such as women’s, men’s and children’s news, subject categories such as bridal, celebrity and fashion week news, and the fiber and textile categories — so any other segment of fashion news is one tile away, and the Fashion News Directory covers news by company as well as by category.
Readers use a category page like this one in two ways: to catch up, by running the live headline searches for cotton news, and to go deeper, by following the publications that cover the segment week in and week out. Trade readers — buyers, sellers and makers working with cotton products — and fashion readers following the subject for its own sake meet on the same page, which is why the list mixes headline searches with standing publications.
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Why is cotton so important to fashion?
The majority of fashion worn on the planet is made from cotton or cotton blended fabrics. Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber — almost pure cellulose — spun into yarn or thread for soft, breathable textiles.
What is the difference between GM and organic cotton?
Genetically modified cotton was developed to reduce the heavy reliance on pesticides. Organic cotton comes from plants that are not genetically modified and is certified to be grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
What kinds of cotton news are collected here?
Crop and market reports, fiber and fabric news and garment industry stories, through the live Bing and Google searches and the cotton organizations and textile links on this page.