Experts will discuss the latest research and textile innovations for a restful night at the upcoming Heimtextil which will have special focus on sleep in its new ‘Sleep! The Future Forum’. The leading trade fair for home and contract textiles, to be held during January 8-11 in Germany, brings together around 800 producers of textiles in the bed segment. Of these, 140 international industry leaders will be represented in the ‘Smart Bedding’ segment alone, which will be presenting the latest s

Courtesy: Mimaki EuropeMimaki Europe will present work from leading designers including Sigrid Calon and Claire Vos (Studio Roderick Vos), under the theme ‘The Fusion of Innovation and Design’ at Heimtextil 2019 to demonstrate the power of digital print. It is collaborating with over 10 inspirational world leading designers for the show to be held during January 8-11 in Germany. Seeing printed applications on a diverse range of textiles, fabrics and interior materials, visitors will learn ho

PPSS Group, a UK headquartered specialist in body armour and protective clothing, supports product designers who are looking for new potential applications of its high-performance cut resistant fabric Cut-Tex PRO. Since its inception, cut resistant fabric Cut-Tex PRO has been used in slash resistant clothing for law enforcement, security, and prisons and corrections personnel, as well as bite resistant clothing for healthcare professionals. Earlier this year, the company also launched its ran

H&M has kicked off its Fair Living Wage Summit 2018 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to find out the way to achieve fair living wages for textile and fashion workers in the industry’s current global climate. Fashion giant H&M has recently organized a summit to ensure all supply chain workers receive a fair living wage and a safe work environment. The summit was held in a time while campaigner accusations that it had failed to pay some garment workers enough to keep them above the poverty line

Though the majority of the businesses are not in favor of a further hike in gas price, a good number favored a rational level of the hike so that the textile and apparel industry can survive. Industry people are still concern over the quality supply of energy and its future cost as they are in uncertainty about the cost of the natural resource after liquefied natural gas (LNG) has connected to the national grid. There is no clear indication from the government about the costing after LNG entere

There is no such unified, safe and secure denim sector in the world other than Bangladesh. Denim fabrics and its diversified products have become the leading products for the homegrown exporter of Bangladesh. The country has turned into a hot spot for denim products in global markets. Bangladesh, the second largest producer of denim products after China, is exporting denim products approximately 250 million pieces every year all over the world mostly in the EU and US market. To produce denim pr

Courtesy: Denim Première Vision The Denim Premiere Vision event, which was held from December 5-6, 2018 in London, was a major success. Nearly 2,344 visitors attended the event – from medium to very high-end fashion brands, designers, luxury players, etc. Attendance was up 17 per cent versus November 2017. Coming from 54 countries, 53 per cent of visitors were from countries outside UK. The show is now an itinerant event organised by Denim Première Vision in alternating, different European c

Opportunities abound for Africa to engage in and benefit from e-commerce and the digital economy as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) comes into force, as discussed at the UNCTAD Africa E-commerce Week in Nairobi. UNCTAD secretary-general said that global e-commerce has grown phenomenally, but even so, it remained constrained. The high-level dialogue on trade and the digital economy in Africa addressed challenges such as the persisting infrastructure gap and the digital di

The November retail sales of US were up 0.7 per cent seasonally adjusted and 5.6 per cent unadjusted year-over-year, with spending on track in the first half of the holiday shopping season as per National Retail Federation (NRF). Sales at clothing and clothing accessory stores were up 4.1 per cent y-o-y but down 0.2 per cent month-over-month. NRF’s numbers are based on data from the US Census Bureau, which said that overall November sales including automobiles, gasoline and restaurants – were

L-R: Anam Husain from NIFT Delhi, Nishant Raj from NID Ahmedabad, and Franziska Knitsch from Pearl Academy Rajouri. Courtesy: Woolmark The third edition of Wool Runway—a fashion design competition celebrating the best emerging talent from design campuses across India—an initiative by The Woolmark Company, a subsidiary of Australian Wool Innovation, was held in Mumbai last week. The winner, Nishant Raj from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad was awarded prize money of ₹1,20,000.