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Luxury as Ethics Designer: Amilani Perera Launched: 2013 Website: amilaniperera.com With a doctor as mother and an engineer as father, for Amilani Perera fashion almost didn't happen. The parents gave in to the daughter's flair and passion to paint and draw, but not before she had studied statistics and economics. Yet, even after she had done fashion design from Singapore's Lasalle College, Amilani's parents were wary about her jumping into the industry straight away and launching her own brand...

The global apparel trade is made up very broadly of two types of countries—the big brothers like China, India and the United States, and the much smaller ones like Bangladesh, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and others. The latter bloc constituents are similar in nature: they are sure-shot small and hardly grow any cotton worth the name; and their economies are heavily dependent on exports, and in turn on the West. Of these small countries, there is one that stands out: Sri Lanka. The tiny island nation off...

It’s a story that began in the back of the beyond at the start of the millennium—somewhere in Peru. The abject poverty, that he might have only have heard of till then and was only to now witness first -hand, shook the bespectacled young man to his core. That set him thinking, and travelling. He took to a path less travelled, and is today showing the world that it can indeed be done—when the entire world of textiles-apparel-fashion is caught up in lofty theories on how to go about it. Barely...

A hundred thousand visitors is a big number for a trade show, especially when most of them were ones making a frantic beeline to attend the event as business visitors. That's how big the last ITMA Asia + CITME 2016 at Shanghai, China was. The latest edition of the bi-annual five-day event that gets under way on October 15 at the National Exhibition and Convention Centre in China's biggest city and commercial hub is expected to relegate those numbers to the history books. It is, to bluntly state...

The textiles-apparel-fashion world is in a flux, and it needs to figure out a number of things. First, it needs be truly sustainable in that processes of production to those of disposal stay circular. And then, it needs to brace up for a change—one that is already under way in ways that few understand fully as yet. But that is only the beginning of the problem—for, all sustainability endeavours will need to be in sync with Industry 4.0, or Textiles 4.0 as many in industry would want to refer to...

Deliveries of new short-staple spindles and long-staple spindles respectively improved by 8 per cent and 46 per cent from 2016 to 2017. The number of shipped draw-texturing spindles and shuttle-less looms increased by 23 per cent and 14 per cent. Shipments of new electronic flat knitting machines and finishing machines of the category "fabric discontinuous" each rose by 70 per cent year-on-year. In contrast, deliveries of finishing machines of the category "fabrics continuous" rose by 5 per cent...

In the fashion industry, they warn you, every new day brings in a new set of problems /challenges. Some of these are new in nature, others are newly-discovered, so to speak. One of the latest, arguably the biggest of them all, is one that of microfibre contamination. The subject had been known for a while, but it is only now that the magnitude of the issue has become a topic of debate and, yes, a major concern. The textiles-apparel-fashion industry has had the dubious honour of being the biggest...

The Clean Fibre Initiative was created by Earth Alive Clean Technologies to support fibre crop growers in North America, Africa, and Latin America. What was the reason for focusing on these three regions, and leaving out Asia? Earth Alive currently has operations in North America, Africa and Latin America and our established business network in these regions facilitated the development of the Clean Fibre Initiative. Our company intends to expand into the Asian market, bringing the Clean Fibre...

That one form of energy can be transformed into another is a fundamental law of nature, nay physics. So, when someone says that kinetic energy can be converted into electricity, that would raise no eyebrows. But when someone claims to have developed a fabric which does precisely that, many in the textiles industry would be snapped into rapt attention. Such a fabric has indeed been developed by researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Researchers Anja Lund and...

It’s tricky—many would even say fallacious—trying to club together all the five states and one union territory in what is referred to as South India. For geopolitical purposes, maybe one can, and one often does too. But presenting an overview of the textiles industry of South India is fraught to be specious. So, let’s say this is only one way of presenting the voices of industry from a geographical region that otherwise would get drowned in the din and clamour of the Indian textiles industry...