Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) has launched the SCAP Extending the Life of Clothes Design Awards (SCAP ELC Awards), which seeks to find and award fashion or textile designers that show their flair for sustainable ...
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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The Shullman Research Center found that 21 percent of U.S. adults who plan Christmas shopping expect to purchase jewelry this year; however, the percentage increases dramatically for the top 41 percent of households, or those earning ...
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that U.S. Christmas-season retail sales will increase 4.1 percent year on year to approximately $619.9 million for the months of November and December 2014. The projected increase is higher ...
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Photo courtesy of mallhaciel. The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 0.1 per cent in August 2014, following a rise of 0.4 per cent in July 2014, seasonally adjusted, according to the Australian ...
The wearables market is perhaps $3 billion to $5 billion today, rising to perhaps $30 billion to $50 billion over the next three to five years, the analysts forecast, adding that there may be upward of 15% of smartphone owners who end up ...
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Switzerland-based OEKO-TEX has introduced a new certificate for textiles– ‘Made in Green by OEKO-TEX’, which proves that the textiles are safe in terms of human ecology and are additionally produced in a sustainable and ...
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Bereavement clothing, the attires worn by mourners during the funeral rituals of a deceased, will be the subject of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming fall season exhibition. Slated to take place from October ...
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The global fashion brand United Colors of Benetton has come up with two revolutionary lines of knitwear that enhance the shape of men’s and women’s bodies. Named as Muscle Fit for men and Pin Up for women, the body hugging, ...
The exports of apparel form India shot up by 17.9 percent in the first five months of the ongoing financial year that began on April 1, 2014, according to the data from the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). In April-August 2014, ...
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The exports of fabric and apparel from Vietnam surged by 19.4 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2014, according to the preliminary data released by the Customs IT & Statistics Department, General Department of Customs, ...
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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India's share has been slowly and steadily increasing in total textile (non-apparel) and apparel imports made by the US in recent years. In 2012, the US imported $2.854 billion worth of textiles from India, which accounted for ...
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The Thailand Textile Institute (THTI) has joined hands with Rajamangala University of Technology (RMUT) to promote the local Muslim fashion industry in Thailand. The Ministry of Industry, Thailand, has successfully started using local ...
Italian kidswear brand Il Gufo is unveiling its second colourful machine-washable Merino wool capsule collection. The collection launched in partnership with The Woolmark Company compromises of 100% Merino wool sweaters, cardigans and ...
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