Textiles

Subir Ghosh spoke to eight dynamic personalities who have remained in the news for the cutting-edge initiatives they have been taking, bringing about a change in the way business itself is done. There were two questions they were posed: * Has GenNext of the Indian textiles-apparel industry changed the way business is done? * How much do you think India's GenNext is geared up to changing things in the global context? The responses. Dhiraj Agarwal CEO and Co-Founder Campus Sutra Dhiraj Agarwal is...

Has GenNext of the Indian textiles-apparel industry changed the way business is done? I strongly believe the newer generation of India’s fashion/apparel industry has changed the industry narrative in many ways. For instance, we have embraced the online business model in a much wholehearted way from the start. Traditionally, the apparel industry (along with other sectors of retail such as groceries) prioritised the offline mode and organic growth. The internet changed this and brought about a...

The import and the scale of the event was such that even as it was palpably drawing to an end, no one was talking of the goings-on at ITMA 2019 Barcelona, but ITMA Milan 2023. Indeed. Textile technology—textile innovation, if you may—is moving at such a frenetic pace that what you would have seen today in Barcelona might just as well be obsolete by the time you are home. That, of course, is a hyperbole, but you get the drift. Themed around ‘Innovating the World of Textiles’, the 18 th edition of...

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...

To look at South India from the standpoint of the textiles and apparel industry would be a fallacy—for one might invariably start with the idle assumption that it is a composite ecosystem on its own. But then, it is anything but that. The five states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana differ from one another in innumerable ways—right from having their own respective textiles policies to the multifarious sectors of the industry that contribute to the overall Indian...

How did your story / journey start? What exactly were you trying to do, or achieve when you set out? Looking back today, how much of your goal do you think you have been able to achieve? Fabric Monde was born out of the idea of catering to the demand and love of the urban markets towards indigenous handloom products. Evolved from there, today we are working on a global supply chain for the fabrics to support and enable fashion brands to source fabrics in a sustainable way. Part of our success...

Every four years, the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry converges at ITMA. If there are a number of #mustattend events out there, this would be the mother of them all. It is an event that in many ways not only shapes the future of industry, but just living as well. And as the ITMA Services, which is organising ITMA 2019 at Barcelona this month, says on its website: “ITMA is the trendsetting textile and garment technology platform where the industry converges every four years to explore...

Close to half a lakh people from across the world would be converging in Frankfurt, Germany in mid-May. They would be flocking to the Techtextil event for a reason—leading international exhibitors will be presenting the entire spectrum of technical textiles, functional apparel textiles and textile technologies at the Messe Frankfurt event. Texprocess, the leading trade fair for the garment manufacturing and textile processing industry, will take place concurrently with Techtextil. Visitors will...

How much do you think technical textiles / nonwovens will dominate the next decade? In which sectors / applications, are we most likely to see that kind of dominance? It is a fact that the technical textiles market is one of the most innovative in the world. It is reported to be among the top five technology-intensive markets with a great potential for advancement. The industry accounts for about 30 per cent of global textile production and it is expected to expand at an annual growth rate of...

Medical wearables are going to be big in the days to come? How "big" is "big"? Medical wearables are a sustainable business for the future. It will be a large industry covering multiple sectors. It is almost impossible to project how “big” is “big” as it spans so many categories from electronics, technology, med-device to fibers, fabrications and surface applications for fabrics. What do you think would be the driving force for this sector? Would it be performance-driven? Or, would there be...