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Organic Cotton Grows Up: Fashion's Sustainability Talk Turns Practical

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A trade op-ed making the rounds this week moves the organic cotton conversation past the question stylists and label founders have debated for a decade. Whether the fiber performs, the piece argues, is settled. What is left is a less romantic ask: whether the mills, farms and supply chains behind it can actually be built out to meet demand at scale. It is a rare moment where the fashion trade press sounds less like a runway review and more like an infrastructure memo, and it is worth noting precisely because so few sustainability pitches ever get that specific.

With reporting from WWD.

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