After the long winter Yamamay is back with the hottest spring 2013 Collection and, at last, the sun shines. A romantic, refined and captivating woman, the super-sensual model Tiffany Keller, is captured by photographer Umberto Barone. A warm and ethereal light creates a game of parallelisms: veils that are as soft as fabrics, an elegant mood that beautifully catches the patterns and colours of these wonderful materials. Yamamay picks laces, macramé, sheer fabrics and trasparencies and make

Spring Fair International, organised by i2i Events, opened on February 3rd 2013 at the NEC and welcomed over 68,116 visitor’s, including more than 5,000 international buyers looking to export British goods abroad - with overall visitor numbers up 6% on last year. Buyers attended from leading independent retailers and all of the UK’s major stores including Selfridges, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Hamleys, Harrods, Liberty, Tesco and Marks & Spencer were well represented. Spring Fair offere

This February sees John Lewis launch KIN – the department store’s first ever ‘lifestyle’ brand – and KIN’s tailoring offer, both of which have been concepted and designed by the John Lewis in house design studio. Spanning menswear, womenswear and childrenswear, KIN is a hard-working weekend wardrobe that comprises of contemporary, fresh and affordable high quality pieces with a distinctly Scandinavian minimalist feel. KIN’s formal counterpart, KIN tailoring, has been designed to appeal to me

In response to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) announcement that it plans to develop a line of “smart” clothing, CAGW excoriate postal management for its misguided attempt to step into non-postal, commercial markets when the organization is facing bankruptcy and is on the verge of needing a taxpayer bailout. In its announcement, USPS executives confirmed that they have entered into a licensing agreement with the Cleveland-based Wahconah Group to market a line of men’s fashion called

Indonesia's biggest polyester maker, PT Asia Pacific Fibers (APF), expects to raise production by 14.9 percent to 1.04 million ton this year and plans to expand sales to China and the United States, media quoting top official of the firm said on Thursday. President Director of APF V. Ravi Shankar said that the expansion of export to China and the US was going to be carried out this year. "For those markets, we will target new industries, whose end products are used in automotive and home furn

Pakistani cotton spinners have lost the opportunity to sell thousands of tonnes of cotton yarn to China, hindered by severe power shortages. Mahesh Kumar, president of Pakistan's Cotton Ginners' Association said, "For two months in the winter there was hardly any electricity for the industry in the state of Punjab where 75% of our spinning mills are based." According to Kumar, 80% of Pakistani yarn exports are sold to China, but in the past two months only 25% of yarn companies continued to

New Zealand Wool Services International Limiteds General Manager, Mr John Dawson reports that the combined North and South Island auction comprising 15,600 bales saw a generally firm market with an 89.6 percent clearance.Wool Prices Steady. New Zealand Wool Services International Limited’s General Manager, Mr John Dawson reports that the combined North and South Island auction comprising 15,600 bales saw a generally firm market with an 89.6 percent clearance. The weighted indicator for the ma

BleuFlamme.com, the premier online destination empowering its clientele to easily browse, create and buy hand tailored custom dress shirts, today officially launched its new-look website for U.S.-based clientele. Saving users time, money and sanity, BleuFlamme.com now features access to a variety of new content (images, descriptions, etc.) to help provide peace of mind when making purchase decisions, and an additional 70 new fabrics and 200 inspirations that allow customers to choose a design in

The Los Angeles International Textile Show (LA TEXTILE) will be taking place Monday, February 25 – Wednesday, February 27, 2013 for Spring/Summer 2014 edition. Located at the California Market Center (CMC) since 1993, this edition of the Show features a number of new exhibitors for textile, design & production resources, and the return of the European Collections Pavilion and Lenzing Innovation Pavilion. Additionally, attendees can expect complimentary daily seminars by world-renowned tr

Clarence House, a style-setter in the decorative fabric industry was founded on the premise that design integrity was a goal that could be achieved through uncompromising artistry and technical quality. Originally, he imported fabrics from Europe that had never been seen in America. Making the choice for Vogue Window Fashion to carry the exquisite line all the easier. "Clarence House's fabrics really stand far apart from a creative and artistic perspective making us so excited to be able to s