Reports

Fashion giant Inditex has taken umbrage to a Vietnam-born entrepreneur for using the name 'Tara Sartoria' for a small artisan-driven clothing business that she had founded and was selling through the website tarasartoria.com. A texfash.com report.

The pandemic was unprecedented, and everyone made mistakes. As COVID-19 variants turn milder and some semblance of normalcy returns, a quick lookback.

As trade wars rage, a new mega-treaty comes into play and some uncertainties keep rankling Sri Lanka’s GSP+ status from the EU. A look at how the country’s apparel industry is working it out.

With the forex crisis in Sri Lanka keeping the country on tenterhooks, the importance of the apparel manufacturing sector becomes paramount. Also, it has to earn more and spend less.

For one week the air pollution levels in Delhi and the NCR (National Capital Region) shot through the roof, forcing authorities to declare a public health emergency. Schools and colleges remained closed as Delhi-NCR choked under the dense fumes wafting in from neighbouring Punjab and Haryana. The capital region had its sources of pollution (from vehicular emissions to pollution caused by power plants), but the stubble burning in the two Northern states came as the last straw. Even though, at its...

The event promises to be the largest confluence of technology, professionals and policymakers from the Indian textiles and apparel industry. It its third edition this year, ITMACH India is positioning itself itself as a must-visit platform for machinery makers desirous of meeting investors, demonstrating new innovations, and exchanging ideas with user industries. The third edition of ITMACH India will be held from December 5–8 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Coming barely six months after ITMA 2019 at...

Technology is developing at a frenetic pace, reshaping life everyday as we know it. Technology is also reshaping the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry in ways that one cannot even imagine. But technology does not develop in isolation; new technologies also mean new ideas and new materials. For those in the industry, ShanghaiTex 2019 would be a heaven-sent opportunity to look at some of them before they eventually come into play and disrupt lives all over again. This November, ShanghaiTex...

If the fashion industry has to go truly circular, it will need to pick up the thread from where the longwinding value chain of the industry currently trails off--in the humongous piles of post-consumer textile waste, an estimated 92 million tonnes generated annually at the last count. It would need a colossal effort on part of industry to turn that waste back into acceptable fashion. And, it would need to be done in a creative and stylish manner. Or else, how could that be fashion? The world...

The easing of sourcing norms in single brand retail trade (SBRT) by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday last will considerably alter the retail landscape in the country. Even though, under the new norms, the compulsion on single brands to open brick-and-mortar stores before venturing into online trade has been moderated, it will now be easier for them to test the waters before going the whole hog. The SBRT announcement came along with a flurry of other decisions related to foreign direct investment...

Clothing, as we know, came into being when human beings learnt to sew. The art of sewing remains at the core of garments thousands of years later. It remains labour-intensive as things stand, and it is on this front that the sewing machinery industry is likely to see the most cutting-edge developments in the immediate future. Manufacturers of sewing machines—of the industrial scale, obviously—are possibly among the most under pressure from apparel manufacturers to help the latter cut costs. In...