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Bio-based yarns, AI and 2027 trends: inside Legwear Innovation Day
Around 150 hosiery firms met in Castel Goffredo in late October: a 100% bio-based yarn, corn-based LYCRA, artificial intelligence according to PwC and four trends for 2027/28.
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Sustainability
Every Tights & the City article about Sustainability: 4 stories across runway, looks, collections and guides.
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Oroblù's corn-based tights: what's really inside
Q-GEO nylon, LYCRA EcoMade, Iowa corn and a Mantuan hosiery town: we read the label on Oroblù's Bio-Derived Sneakers Tights to find out how much of a pair of tights can come from a plant.
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Recycled tights: inside Life Re-Tights, the Golden Lady and Calzedonia project
A plant that separates nylon from elastane, 500 collection stores, EU money and a 30 November 2026 deadline: how Life Re-Tights works, and what we still don't know.
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Swedish Stockings: the tights made from fishing nets
Founded in Stockholm in 2013, made in Castel Goffredo: how Swedish Stockings turns regenerated nylon, some of it from fishing nets, into tights, and laddered pairs into tables.
