Courtesy: KeringKering and the innovation platform, Plug and Play, have introduced the Kering Sustainable Innovation Award to fast-track sustainable innovation in the luxury and apparel sectors in Greater China. It offers comprehensive mentorship and networking, travel to Europe and the US to meet with fashion and innovation leaders, and a € 100,000 grant to the top winner. The award was launched in Beijing. Inspired by Kering’s motto Crafting Tomorrow’s Luxury, the award programme will iden

Courtesy: AlizillaErmenegildo Zegna, a leader in luxury menswear, has unveiled a flagship store on Tmall Luxury Pavilion, marking the launch with an exclusive collection created with the Chinese Football Association. The Pavilion, Alibaba Group’s dedicated site for premium brands, is Zegna’s first official third-party digital channel in the market, apart from its own site. The move comes as China is poised to overtake the US as the world’s largest fashion market next year, according to global

Courtesy: ColorifixColorifix, the developer of the first commercial biological dyeing process, has raised $3 million from impact and strategic investors with strong links to the fashion industry. The funds will help the expansion of its Norwich-based facility and the team build-out as Colorifix launches pilots with leading players in the international fashion industry. The funds were raised in a Series A round which was led by Challenger 88, with participation from Cambridge Enterprise, H&am

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