BlinQ, the online luxury fashion platform, has teamed up with Italian online fashion retailer Yoox Net-A-Porter Group to make its products available for users in Southeast Asia.Image Courtesy: techwireasia.comBlinQ will be, reportedly, adding over 10,000 products from more than 700 luxury brands to its platform, which already has several products from different brands.Speaking about the alliance with Yoox, Bob Chua, Founder and CEO, BlinQ, said “The association with Yoox will give Southeast Asia

The fashion industry is always on the lookout for innovation and though a lot of work is being done in this area by various trend agencies, The Woolmark Company has created an invincible niche with The Wool Lab, an innovative seasonal guide to the best wool fabrics and yarns in the world. The Wool Lab brings together the Company’s global supply chain network to showcase real samples of commercially available fabrics aligned to the season’s macro-themes.Each season, The Woolmark Company reaches o

, one of the subsidiary companies of Chu Cheong Co. Pte Ltd. deals in one-stop solutions for all industrial sewing machines and garment equipment from cutting, sewing to finishing section. The company also manufactures machines under the brand ‘VITONI’.Figure 1: Focus is a one-stop service company able to supply all kinds of machines and spare parts including Juki, Pegasus, Brother, Kansai special, Hashima, KM, etc.At the event of Garmentech 2020 in Bangladesh, they introduced on VITONI Automati

January forecast of 2019-20 shows less production of cotton and beginning stocks. It seems that the forecast is unchanged as cotton production is lowered again for India, Pakistan, Australia, and Turkey. Consumption is largely unchanged in Bangladesh and Vietnam, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.For few months Bangladesh has been seeing negative growth from apparel exports and the weakening apparel exports triggered lower import of cotton in Bangladesh. Many Bangladeshi m

The outbreak of coronavirus, which spread from China to over a dozen countries, is likely to pose a major threat to the overall apparel supply chain. However, the Cotton Association of India (CAI), the apex trade body, said that it will not create any threat to India’s cotton exports as India’s rates are competitive in the international market and the exports can be diverted from China to other markets.The apex trade body said there are no specific concerns. “On the export front, we are doing go

andrecently announced the formation of NaviColor, a dedicated marketing channel to service the unique needs of select customers in the United States textiles and apparel industry, says a press release.NaviColor is a business specifically designed to meet the needs of select Huntsman Textile Effects customers and to further expand the growing customer base. NaviColor features a dedicated team of professionals in a highly advanced technological environment to support customers utilizing Huntsman’s

Amid negative growth in woven products export earnings, Bangladesh’s export shipment of knitwear goods posted a 1.20% growth to $16.44 billion in the last year.Talking to Textile Today, trade analysts and sector peoplehave given credit tothe strong backward linkage industry of the knitwear sectorfor the growth.According to the Export Promotion Bureau(EPB)data,Bangladesh earned $16.44 billion from knitwear export in 2019, which was $16.24 billion in the previous year.On the otherhand, export earn

The evidence of climate change, dead whales with thousands of plastic materials inside them, seabirds eating plastic, etc. give us goosebumps. These dreadful effects have led us to justify our works and have given the room to rethink about what we have done and what we will do in the future. Hence, sustainability has become the new focal point for the consumers as well as the clothing brands which is guiding both parties to a brighter future.Figure 1:Sustainability has become the new focal point

Industrialists were thinking that the continuous negative growth of apparel exports would change the global position of the Bangladesh apparel industry at the end of the year 2019. However, still, Bangladesh is ahead of Vietnam in apparel exports to the global market.Figure 1:Vietnam is going to attain Bangladesh’s position as the world’s second-largest apparel supplier by concentrating on product diversification.According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, Vietnam earned $32.64 billi

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association () has urged the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to permit readymade garment (RMG) exporters to sell a duty-free portion of their export products to global brands’ outlets in Bangladesh.Figure:Some foreign brands with outlets in Bangladesh have to pay up to 130% customs duties on many of the garments and shoes they import, even the ones that are made in Bangladesh.On January 11, Dr. Rubana Huq, President, BGMEA sent a letter to the NBR l