For Fall Winter 2013, Creative Directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli designed a collection inspired by the paintings of Flemish masters and recognize their undeniable connections with our contemporary world: a glorification of everyday life; serene yet with a sense of detail and a taste for color. Silhouettes are sleek and seemingly severe: small and curved like a vase or straight, they reveal the legs, graze the knee and touch the ankle Fragile sensuality is subtly expresse

Tom Dixon dives into uncharted waters in an unprecedented collaboration with sportswear company adidas, to be revealed this April at MOST at Salone del Mobile, in Milan. Premiering new typologies of bags and apparel, the base of the collection comprises two travel bag typologies – the hard and the soft – an experiment in capsule thinking in which luggage unclasps, unzips and unfolds to reveal multiple layers. Inside, the bags reveal a complete kit of parts for our week long stay in Italy –

Awards ceremonies are the one night of the year when celebrities go all out with fantastic designer dresses and the Brit Awards, which were held in the UK last week, were no exception. Music’s finest didn’t let the freezing British weather dampen their spirits and everyone looked stunning as they made their way down the red carpet. Jessie J, Taylor Swift and Ashley Roberts hit all the right notes on the red carpet and with dresses from Missguidedau.com, you can get their look for less with th

Apparel brands from Marches Region of Italy are seeking enhanced cooperation with Dalian Piemont Garment Park. A delegation comprising of four representatives from the Marches Region paid a visit to the clothing R&D centre of Dalian Piemont Garment Park earlier this week, chinadaily.com reported. The R&D centre, spread over an area of 8,000 sq m with around 6,400 sq m of constructed area, will undertake independent research and development of Piemont apparels. The centre will co

True to their motto, all Brentano fabrics strive to strike the perfect balance of beauty + performance, and with their spring 2013 Symphonic collection, Brentano introduces high-performance textiles that are suitable for contract, healthcare, and institutional environments that also offer dynamic patterns, fresh colors, and a residential hand. Woven from 100% high energy-dyed polyester, Polka is a small-scale, geometric pattern that is well-priced, bleach cleanable, and has both a Nano-Tex an

Australia is set to become the world's second-biggest exporter of raw cotton, trailing only the US, after last year's record harvest and another good crop expected next month. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences predicts Australia will export an unprecedented 1.1 million tonnes of cotton in 2012-13, 11 per cent more than in 2011-12. But cotton production this season will not exceed last year's record crop, falling by 21 per cent from last year's 1.2 millio

The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) announces a one-day symposium on textile recovery entitled “Collecting Textiles: Make It Work for Your Community” to be held Tuesday, April 2nd at the Nathan Hale Inn & Conference Center at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. The goal of the workshop is to provide municipalities, recycling coordinators, colleges & universities, schools, civic groups, and the general public with information on the process for setting up local clothing and te

The government and opposition parties should come forward to resolve the ongoing political crisis to save the country's largest foreign currency earning sector. The appeal came Thursday at a press conference organised by the Sammilito Parishad to share its plan and objectives for the development of the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector ahead of the BGMEA (Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association) election, which is scheduled to be held on March 10."No hartal is acceptabl

Export of readymade garments (RMG) to India would face a major setback as the big neighbour's parliament slapped nearly 16 per cent countervailing duty (CVD) on import of the products from Bangladesh, RMG sector insiders said. The Indian measure came when the RMG exporters in Bangladesh starting viewing the neighbouring country as the next biggest export destination after the US and the EU following Delhi's withdrawal of import duty on 48 garment products last year. Despite many barriers like

Textile entrepreneurs in country's biggest man-made fabric industry in Surat are all set to try manufacturing biodegradable and eco-friendly technical textile products using natural banana fibre.The Man-Made Textile Research Association (MANTRA) has successfully prepared fabrics using banana fibre on powerloom and processed them into dyed, printed and finished products. They were then subjected to coating and lamination and made into technical textile products.Some of the technical textile produ