10/09/2026
Fashion made polyester a curse word. Fashion also can’t stop making it.
Polyester is not fashion’s biggest problem. It’s fashion’s biggest open secret.🤫
📊59% of everything the industry makes is the thing it loves to hate. Gen Z just gave it a name “polyester lifestyle.” Fake. Cheap. Disposable.
📉The brands making the loudest sustainability pledges are growing their synthetic volumes the fastest. The fix the industry agreed on recycled polyester sheds 55% more microplastics than the original.
And sustainability? That’s a word only luxury can afford to use. For the rest of Indian fashion, polyester was never a choice. It was the only thing ever priced for them.
👉 Swipe, this is the conversation nobody in Indian fashion is having out loud.
💬 Do you think fashion can actually quit polyester? Be honest.
📌 Save this before your next sourcing conversation.