The European Branded Clothing Alliance (EBCA), the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), and the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) have hailed the commitment by the European Union and the United States to conclude ...
The American apparel retail company Tommy Hilfiger and the English television presenter and style icon Alexa Chung have come together to unveil an exclusive fashion edit selected from the former’s current seasonal offering. ...
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The board of Kishore Biyani led Future Lifestyle Fashions (FLFL) has approved issue of equity shares and compulsory convertible debentures (CCDs) on preferential basis, which will help the fashion retailer, raise nearly Rs 175 crore. In a ...
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MADE-BY has launched its latest tool the ‘MADE-BY Wet Processing Benchmark’, which it said, supports brands in understanding and reducing the environmental impact of their supply chains. The MADE-BY Wet Processing Benchmark ...
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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 ...
Reliance Brands, a division of Reliance Industries Ltd will launch casual luxury lifestyle brand, Juicy Couture in India in the second half of 2015. Under the partnership, Reliance Brands will open 20 Juicy Couture single brand stores in ...
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Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
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De Beers is talking about change, urging the trade to be proactive in dealing with a persistently uncertain and volatile market environment. While the company has directed its message to the diamond industry at large, and specifically to ...
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With thousands of shoes on display, the fashion capital’s footwear presentations offered many memorable moments. Here, FN pinpoints a selection of like-worthy outliers. Fresh Loaf:Designers modified the menswear loafer with kilties, ...
Ritani has partnered with a number of fine jewelry brands and designers, as well as up-and-coming talent from the Fashion Institute of Technology, to launch the Ritani Designer Collections program. The program works like this: Each ...
The Indian home-grown men’s lifestyle brand Grasim Suiting unveiled a new festive fabric range made from the environment friendly jute fibre. Replete with an ultra comfy soft feeling fabric structure, each fabric from the collection ...
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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, ...
"India is a very different market from Europe. For men in Europe, dressing up is a way of life. Indian consumers are more conservative and followers of fashion,” says the top Indian honcho of a European fashion brand. Rajiv Nair- ...
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