Marks & Spencer (M&S) opens its latest concept store in Al Ghurair Mall, its 7th in Dubai and 12th in the UAE. The new store is over 950 square meters in size and located at the ground floor of the popular shopping centre. Women looking for a quality international retail experience will enjoy the brand's new inviting and inspiring store design offering a wide range of stylish and innovative products in exceptional quality and at great prices. The store clearly differentiates each sub

This fall, Guess by Marciano introduces a vibrant women’s collection that captures the sophisticated essence of the Marciano brand. Pops of teal, electric blue, pink, and gold are worked into the color palette of the modern fall styles. The versatile styles in the fall collection can take you from day to night with ease. The fall collection for women offers some of the season’s most anticipated trends. A black and cobalt brocade blazer is the perfect statement piece to add interest to a retro

With the finest decorative fabric inventory in Northern California, Norman S. Bernie Co, serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1957, always has strived to provide the greatest range of upholstery fabrics and drapery fabrics for their very discriminating customers. It is with that in mind that Norman S. Bernie Co. is constantly looking for more ways to serve their loyal customers. Ideally, with more decorative fabrics to choose from, customers have more options, and are better able to tailo

The Nike Pro Elite Knit collection is mapped directly to the heat zones of the female body. Vertical ventilation openings down the centre also allow women to check out their alignment. Sportswear giant Nike has developed a range of lightweight and breathable seamless performance apparel for women based on its Flyknit technology. To create the Nike Pro Elite Knit collection designers studied a thermodynamic map of the female body, provided by the Nike Sport Research Lab. The map sh

China's average daily crude imports from Iran fell 12.6 percent in July from the same month last year, data from the General Administration of Customs showed on Wednesday. China, Tehran's largest oil customer, bought 1.687 million tonnes of crude from the Middle East nation in July, or about 397,261 barrels per day. For the first seven months of the year, imports fell 3.5 percent over a year earlier at 12.205 million tonnes, or around 420,267 bpd, according to the data. Source: Reuters.

Pakistan’s textile industry and leading Chinese textile and clothing associations’ leadership have agreed to form a joint working group for providing match-making services to the prospective investors in realizing new projects in textile industry through joint ventures. In this respect, APTMA central chairman |Ahsan Bashir welcomed the Chinese businessmen delegation at the APTMA House Punjab. The visiting high-powered Chinese delegation included Gao Yong, President and Secretary General CNTAC,

A Tanzanian firm has indicated its intention to set up a cotton ginnery in Zambia to provide a ready market for small-scale cotton growers in the country. MeTL Group wants to set up a ginnery with the view of buying cotton from small-scale farmers (SSF) and process it locally. Company deputy chief executive officer Cosmas Mtesigwa said the firm was ready to bring huge investment into the country for the betterment of the Zambian people and help contribute to the country's economic development.

Taiwanese companies that attended a fashion trade exhibition in Las Vegas are expected to obtain about US$5 million worth of orders, the Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) said Friday. The 16 textile exporters from Taiwan displayed readymade clothing, hats, socks and other accessories to potential foreign buyers at the Las Vegas Magic Show 2013 from Aug. 18-21, said the TTF, a private sector group. High performance fabric supplier AGT International Co., ladies woven apparel maker Caribbean Indus

A spark of revival has already been witnessed in Q1 2014, could lead to a 5-10% revival in exports. The textile sector could witness a jump in its export numbers this financial year due to the falling rupee as there is a spark of revival witnessed in the first quarter of this financial year. Textile exporters feel that the depreciating rupee could lead to a 5-10% rise in textile exports this fiscal after a bleak year in 2012-13. "There should be 5-10% increase in overall textile export as a r

Cotton imports by Pakistan, the world's fourth-biggest grower, may tumble this year as a jump in stockpiles help counter a potential drop in local output. Inbound shipments may drop 40 percent to 1.5 million bales of 170 kilograms (375 pounds) each in the year that began on July 1, Khalid Abdullah, the nation’s cotton commissioner, said in an interview in Karachi. Inventories have almost doubled to 1.5 million bales from 800,000 bales a year earlier, he said. Cotton climbed 12 percent this yea