Birla Cellulose from Aditya Birla Group recently did a grand launch of its new age fabric brand, LIVA in Mumbai in an extravagant evening in presence of leading fashion designers, brands, retail chain, partners and media.
In recent years, the sustained rise in production costs on the Chinese mainland has eroded the profit margins of many Hong Kong companies with labour-intensive factories located on the Chinese mainland, prompting them to seek alternative production bases elsewhere.
India is rising as a new choice of relocating labour-intensive industries from China and also as a retail market of good potential, according to reasearch report by The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC).
Kids fashion industry has come a long way from merely being unheard off, some years ago to being a potential market for experimentation and simultaneously offering new growth avenues for the vibrant apparel industry. In the midst of all this there was felt a need to bridge the gap and bring the kids fashion industry in the mainstream. This is where, India Kids Fashion Show (IKFS) was able to do the needful seamlessly and offer a viable platform for the apparel industry to grow and build upon its bastion.
India-Sri Lanka "Shilpa Kala", an exhibition cum sale of traditional handicrafts and textiles, for "Sangam: Festival of India in Sri Lanka 2015-2016" will be held from March 23 to 27. This was announced by the High Commission of India in Sri Lanka.
Shilpa Kala will showcase the best of traditional handicrafts from both countries. It will also emphasize the confluence of cultures that underlie the handicrafts traditions in both India and Sri Lanka.
The VDMA Textile Machinery Association and supported by Vietnam Textile & Apparel Association (VITAS), China Textile & Apparel (CTA, Adsale) and Becker Travel Co. Ltd. Vietnam to organize two technological conferences themed “German Technology meets Vietnamese Textile” which will be held in Ho Chi Minh City.
Industry experts from 22 VDMA member companies will present practice-oriented technology topics covering the following sectors: Spinning, knitting and weaving, nonwovens, dyeing and finishing.
Reliance Industries, the world's second-largest synthetic fibre manufacturer, has entered into a brand alliance with Precot Meridian a coimbatore-based sewing threads leader to use Reliance’s Recron SHT Brand on its sewing threads brand, RIL said in a statement.
As per the agreement for co-branding for polyester sewing thread yarn range, Precot will manufacture grey and coloured polyester sewing thread yarns using Reliance's Recron SHT, claimed to be one of the quality super high tenacity fibres. This yarn will then be sold, co-branded with Recron SHT.
A two-day summit on “Denims: A Democracy in Fashion” was held in Ahmedabad as denim plays a major role in fashion trend since jeans are worn by consumers both in urban and rural areas across all the country’s economic strata and it also helps to break down barriers.
With an aim to pay an ode to the rich heritage of India through their collection, the designers blended traditional craft and weaves to showcase their modern styles and sensibilities of contemporary India at the Amazon India Fashion Week (AIFW) Autumn-Winter 2016 at the Jawaharlal Nehur Stadium.
Names like Rahul Mishra and Samant Chauhan presenting Indian traditional craft with a contemporary twist and in a more global format.
At a joint committee meeting between Japan and Vietnam in Hanoi on Saturday, the two countries agreed to work together for the promotion of the textile industry in Vietnam. The agreement is aimed at dealing with an expected increase in Vietnamese textile exports to the United States once the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement enters into force.
Japan, Vietnam and the United States are among the 12 nations that signed the TPP deal earlier this year.
With escalating cost of doing business and weak demand in the international markets, textile exports in the first eight months of the current fiscal year has plunged nine percent to $8.363 billion hitting the Pakistan’s major foreign exchange spinner, as per analysts.
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data, textile exports amounted to $9.166 billion in July-February of 2014/15.
