With a recently-expanded production facility and a ?500,000 investment in new machinery, Germany-based Wico GmbH is winning new customers in the area of contract coating and laminating of technical textiles. The company installed a new roller coating system last year to enhance the flexibility of the company for coating and laminating a range of textiles, including woven and knitted fabrics, foam material, nonwovens, membranes, synthetic leather and paper. The company has established itself

Mesh! Snakeskin! Leather! Feathers! Gucci designer, Frida Gianni, brought all of that and more to her fall 2013 show creating a dark and sensual collection that's anything but boring. Let's go to the film: You see, the Gucci girl is covered up, sure. She sports knee high boots, long sleeves and gloves, but she's certainly not stuffy. She's a lady with a bit of a freaky side, am I right? Are you obsessed with the juxtaposition? Do you th

Your favorite wedding dress designer (who created 7 dresses for her own big day!) isn't just interested in making gorgeous gowns. Vera Wang is bringing her fashion sense to the NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders! During an interview Monday evening, she revealed plans to design uniforms for the squad. When you think about it, if any designer were to design NFL costumes it would be Vera Wang. She is an amateur figure skater who has designed costumes for Michelle Kwan when she comp

The Peruvian province of Puno will display the best of its alpaca fibre apparel designs at the upcoming Peruvian fashion event Peru Moda 2013, to be held in Lima from April 10-12, 2013. The regional government of Puno is working with Promperu, Peru’s export and tourism promotion board, to showcase Puno’s potential in alpaca garments during the event, ANDINA quoted Puno’s Regional President Mauricio Rodriguez as saying. Mr. Rodriguez said Peru Moda 2013 will allow emerging designers to pres

THIRTY local schools had sent 79 batches of student uniforms suspected of having toxic dyes to authorities for tests by yesterday, the city's quality watchdog said. The student uniforms are being checked at the Shanghai Institute of Fiber Inspection to determine whether they contain carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes. The results will be issued within days, the institute said. The disciplinary inspection department of Pudong Education Bureau started to investigate the purchase and sales of the

Job seekers throng at the first job fair after Spring Festival in Hangzhou. More than 2,500 positions are offered. However, the garment trade is struggling to recruit employees. A man walks past a huge employment advertisement at a garment factory on Xinye Street. HUGE employment advertisements hang from the garment workshops and factories that line Hangzhou's Xinye Street, beneath which are lines of interview booths. The ads feature practical information, detailing jobs, pay - includ

Wool manufacturer Mogol Noos officially opened a wool threading factory on Monday. Mogol Noos, which was established in 1990, has trial tested the factory since 2011. The threading factory is part of a government project that aims to supply all domestic tailoring factories with domestically-produced woollen fabric. The threading factory was established with funding from South Korea and incorporates South Korean threading technology. The government intends to build three or four fabric fact

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has closed the case against city-based textile machinery major Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW) for the alleged abuse of its dominant market position for spinning machinery for textiles. Bangalore-based Shahi Exports had filed a complaint with the CCI stating LMW had increased the price of the spinning machinery it had ordered using its dominant position. LMW held about 60% market share in when the dispute arose in FY11. It was alleged that the opposite par

Pakistan Textile City, which dropped its own plan to set up a 250-megawatt captive power plant, signed an agreement with Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) for the supply of 50MW. The agreement for uninterrupted supply of electricity to the industrial zone from KESC's newly-installed 560MW Bin Qasim Plant was signed by CEO of KESC Nayyer Hussain and Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, the Chairman of Pakistan Textile City at a ceremony held at the KESC Head Office. The signing ceremony was also attend

Sophia Bush, Emmy Rossum , Orlando Bloom , Miranda Kerr and Helen Hunt were among the guests who joined H&M and Global Green USA to celebrate their partnership and the kickoff of H&M's global garment recycling program at Global Green's 10th annual Pre-Oscar party. H&M, as a proud sponsor of the event, featured an exclusive H&M Conscious lounge which highlighted H&M's key sustainability initiatives including their fashionable Conscious clothing collections. An ivory organi