Altamont Capital Partners has partnered with existing shareholders to lead a strategic investment in Hybrid Apparel (Hybrid), a leading supplier of branded, licensed and private label apparel. Current shareholders, including Hybrid Founder ...
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The German-based international sportswear brand Adidas has recently unveiled the uniforms for the athletes of the American professional basketball league National Basketball Association (NBA). The label, which is the official outfitter ...
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OMsignal, the Montreal smart apparel startup, began shipping the first edition of its Biometric Smartwear to pre-order customers and launched its iOS app in the Apple App Store. The Smartwear compression shirts and iOS app work in tandem ...
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After a successful inaugural FESPA Africa 2014, the textile printing show returns in 2015 with the theme of 'Ignite Your Print Potential'. FESPA Africa 2015 aims to attract a wider array of exhibitors and cutting-edge technology, in ...
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The man-made fibre (MMF) industry in India has demanded that the Union Government implement a fibre neutral excise policy and remove bias and anomalies against the MMF industry. The MMG producers, represented by the Association of ...
Red Kap, a company focused on developing performance apparel for the automotive industry, chose a good time to return to the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Show in Las Vegas. From Nov. 4-6, 2014, Red Kap aggressively ...
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The tools used by self-dressing women to coil their hair into a bun In Zhaoqing City of South China's Guangdong Province, the smell of opening-up and reform can be felt here and there with the newly built western-style buildings, ...
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The decade of the 1950s saw women's clothing in China lose all aesthetic significance after the founding of New China. After experiencing the Great Leap Forward [*note] and the People's Communalization Movement [*note], Chinese women's ...
In the year 1920 in China, women still bound their breasts and those who wore low-cut clothing revealing even the slightest bit of skin risked being arrested by outraged authorities. But only seven years later, the Chinese government ...
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The full decade of the Cultural Revolution movement from 1966 to 1976 saw China's fashion go underground, buried under a sea of grass green army uniforms and Mao suits. But by the end of the year 1976, the winter of fashion discontent was ...
The international clothing brand Esprit has unveiled its first-ever recycled Autumn/Winter apparel collection with the R Cert verification tag from the Hong Kong based environmental sustainability promoting NGO Redress’. Designed by ...
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Smart clothing could help transition wearables from being a separate device to being one that users naturally wear. The technology, which is already getting the attention of athletes, features sensors that disappear into clothing. ...
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AUR Golf, the Canadian golf apparel brand known for utilizing technical fabrics in modern sophisticated forms, has recently unveiled its new men’s and women’s spring 2015 collections replete with elegant geometric prints and ...
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Danish smart textiles technology developer - Ohmatex has partnered with Danfoss PolyPower to supply PolyPower stretch sensors for wearable applications. The sensors combine PolyPower stretch sensing technology with an Ohmatex textile ...
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Croatia-based specialist packaging producers EcoCortec has created marine biodegradable film products to help tackle the plastic packaging waste polluting the oceans across the world. Biobased polymer technology has been used to create ...
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