The Bangladesh High Court in October imposed a sixmonth ban on Nirapon, a local entity formed with the backing of 23 North American apparel brands and retailers to replace the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety. Nirapon has been overseeing building saf
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Themed Innovating the World of Textiles, the 18th edition of ITMA concluded in Barcelona, Spain on June 26. Many technologies were launched, ranging from 3D weaving and knitting to hitech nonwovens processes, sustainable chemicals and stateoftheart garmen
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The UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion is seeking to halt the environmentally and socially destructive practices of fashion and harness the industry as a driver for improving ecosystems. The fashion industry is the secondbiggest consumer of water, genera
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Colour Changing Shoes By MIT Research Lab Over the last five years, the team here at WTVOX has been at the forefront of fashion innovation. By covering how the adoption of innovative technology reshapes the fashion landscape, we have witnessed the emerge
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The year 2019 has been a challenging year for many industries, including apparel and fashion. With continuous change in market trends, the industry faced many shifts in consumer behavior, technology, and sustainability.
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Fashion attire is for not only night outs or parties alone. Women also need to dress up in style when they are going for work. Yes, we are talking about business and corporate women. What you will wear to your place of work often troubles women in busines
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The last calendar year ended on a rather dull look for Bangladesh with RMG exports being hit. Yet, the country remains on a much firmer footing than its South Asian neighbours as far its economy is concerned, and its Southeast Asian rivals in terms of app
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The sourcing world as we knew it in the wake of the dismantling of the quota regime 15 years ago, is not what it was for the next decade and half. Today there is not one particular model to be followed, and nor is it about having one single solution to al
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The fouryearlong European Clothing Action Plan ECAP has just concluded. Fibre2Fashion summarises the findings and achievements over a range of innovation projects conducted through eight workstreams.The 3.6 million pilot project funded by EU LIFE was mean
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Many apparel businesses find it challenging to find the right outsourcing strategy for their business. They all look for better markets to leverage their products or services, which earns the most profit. This way, Outsourcing has always been generating g
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The Competition Commission of India has called for greater transparency by ecommerce marketplaces and recommended selfregulation as the way out, reports Subir Ghosh Bargaining power imbalance and information asymmetry between marketplace platforms and the
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India has been an integral part of the global textiles and apparel industry throughout history. Indias textile and apparel exports stood at 37 billion in 2018 and are expected to reach 80 billion by 2025. The domestic apparel market is also projected to g
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Globalisation means different things to different people, and it also fleshes out in different ways for different industries. But there is no other industry that is more global both in nature as well as in extent than the textiles apparel industry. And th
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By now each one of us would have been inundated with substantial information and global data on the current crisis and the future of business. Hence it would only be both logical and imperative to take a few steps back and a few steps into the future for
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COVID19 outbreak has shaken the global economy and has slowdown the businesses across the world. The first country affected by COVID19 was China, and also the first country to recover faster than the rest of the world.After a lengthy lockdown and travel b
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The Indian textiles apparel industry showed a marginal growth in terms of overall sales and EBIDTA levels during first nine months of 201920. The sector is struggling in terms of exports with a decline of 7 per cent in 9M FY20 as compared to that in 9M F
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Indian economy dating back several centuries, Indias textile and apparel industry is the secondhighest employment generator.It employs over 100 million workers directly and indirectly. The contribution of textile and apparel sector to GDP in the year 2018
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In the fashion industry, Circularity is the new buzz word, trending even more than sustainability. Circularity is a new way of doing business, its a mindset. Fashion and apparel businesses across the globe are embracing Circularity in their business to at
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The COVID19 pandemic has brought us to a moment that is not just unprecedented in its global impact but also daunting in the uncertainty of an evolving health crisis and subsequent contracting economic activity. It is teaching us many lessons, not the lea
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Prabhu Dhamodharan offers suggestions to revive the countrys textile and apparel exports. The world trade in textile and apparel is facing its biggest challenge due to COVID19. Every company and individual may go through the pain in the short term. As for
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When mass production gives way to mass customisation, the result would be minimal waste. The latter, therefore, would be a sustainable approach. The garment industry is experiencing a digital wave. The textiles industry is the secondbiggest polluter after
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Change is the only constant. But in present day, change does not occur by choice but by force, which is beyond anyones control and which has put the world on pause. The apparel retail industry had needed a transformation in its perspective, a change in it
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After the outbreak of COVID19, Philippines is upbeat that foreign buyers would continue to look at it as a source for clothes to be sold. And with the proposed passing of Corporate Income Tax and Incentives Rationalization Act CITIRA into law, new investm
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Sewing room operations are an integral part of apparel production. Improved productivity and efficiency can be ensured by enhancing sewing machine performance, reducing machine downtime and adding computer interface to conventional machines. Traditional,
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How does the current Covid situation fit into the VUCA Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous acronym and how can apparel firms navigate through the pandemic using Marketing 4.0. A professional training programme a couple of years ago had used the ac
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