Design duo Agi & Sam has unveiled their first collection of womenswear, available exclusively at Harvey Nichols. The line features seven patterned shirts, printed and woven, made of materials including silk twills and 40s cotton mixes. Taking inspiration from the same time-travelling journey of development as the autumn/winter 2012 men's collection, the pieces are priced between ?270-400. The duo says, 'We have always hoped we could translate quite easily from men's to womenswear, but we wan

Those Island Days – Model Hanne Bruening (Mega Models) and male model Josh (Select Models London) don an all Louis Vuitton wardrobe for this romantically retro cover shoot captured on Greece’s beautiful Mykonos Island, for Weltwoche Stil Magazine. Photographer Leo Krumbacher lenses the duo in sophisticated looks styled by Eve Sand, with art direction by Alexis Zurflueh. / Beauty by Spiri Fountoglou, Post Production by retouched Source: Fashion Gone Rogue

It has been forecast that the cotton area in Brazil could shrink between 20.2-27.4%, which has led to producers refraining from closing new trades, according to the national company for food supply, Conab. The company said the area may reduce to between 1.012 and 1.112 million hectares, which would result in a production between 1.49 and 1.63 million tonnes, 21.2% and 13.4% lower, respectively, compared to the crop before. It added that Brazilian inventories at the end of the 2012/13 seaso

Leading textile companies from Taiwan will be exhibiting a wide range of quality design and high performance textile & garment products in Colombo at the Taj Samudra, Upper Crystal Room, on October 30 and 31, 2012. After a decade long success story of textile fairs in India, Taiwan Textile Fair now expands into Sri Lanka. The garment industry in Sri Lanka is one of the important & largest industry which provides close to 15% of Sri Lanka’s employment either directly or indirectly,

FASHIONxt put fashion forward lifestyle on display Oct 10-13. Even while Portland’s fashion week was on newsstands with full-page recognition in Time magazine’s October 15th issue, FASHIONxt was putting on a show in stump town. FASHIONxt revealed the relationship between fashion forward apparel and accessories and personal technology in a way that personally engaged trend setting guests and exhibitors. FASHIONxt earned praise from global technology leader Intel to Portland startup Carbon Audi

Amormoda, a leading supplier of wedding dresses and special-occasion dresses, launched its Ballroom Dresses 2013 Collection, which consists of 122 items totally. According to Eason Chen, CEO of Amormoda, all the dresses have these several characteristics: rich fabrics, fine tailoring, meticulous production and effective transport services. Moreover, all of them are free shipping. Eason Chen said, "How to dress well for ballroom dancing, has been a favorite topic for girls. Our ballroom dresse

Both presidential candidates President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney advocate the return of manufacturing back to America. As the nation echoes this sentiment, one Texas-based retail clothing store, Sun & Color, watches her business grow with a Made in America hat. "I always knew [domestic manufacturing] was the right thing to do," said Melissa Gotfredson, founder of Sun & Color, who chooses U.S. support over profit margins. "Increasingly, people all over the country are uniti

Indonesian Textile Association (API) recorded until September 2012 textile exports slowed down by 6% compared with the value of exports in 2011 amounted to U.S. $ 13.4 billion. According to the Chairman of the API Ade Sudrajat, Indonesian textile exports lost to Vietnam, Cambodia, and China despite the recent crisis in Europe. In this case, Indonesia has internal problems that are less profitable to export. He was assessed by the publication of the Ministry of Finance (PMK) 243/2011 on Easy Im

Chinese manufacturers are moving to neighboring Southeast Asian nations or seriously considering moving due to rising wages and shrinking export demand, according to a foreign trade official from the Ministry of Commerce. A clothes workshop in Heilongjiang province [file photo] In the fields of textiles, garments, shoes and hats, nearly one-third of manufacturers are working" under growing pressure and have moved all or part of their production outside China, said the offi