Japan’s bountiful visual culture has long been a place to take inspiration from. The futuristic yet traditional culture has become a fascination among western communities, translating into our creative industries, particularly fashion. Described as “another planet” by trend watcher, Ronny de Vylder. The Japanese believe in everything they do, influencing the rest of the world with their ‘Wabi-Sabi’ view of ‘finding art in imperfections’. Translated into the work of Japanese designers, Rei

Perfect Textile & Garment Manufacture Co. has joined the Cotton USA licensing programme. This joining is following the launch event of the 'Travel in Denim' collection in Guangzhou, China in June, resulting an additional 1.4 million pounds of US cotton consumption. The company is committed to becoming the best supplier of jeans in the world. We are looking forward to working with Cotton USA to further expand our US cotton product lines and becoming the supplier of global brands and retail

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has significantly raised the estimates of global cotton production, trade, use and ending stocks for 2017-18. The United States, Australia, India and Brazil will be the major exporters of cotton.The FAS forecasts Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam and Bangladesh will be the four major cotton importers in the next US fiscal, according to an August USDA circular. The US balance sheet has area down but production up on hig

The European Commission (EU) has recently issued a notice in its official journal establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel to textile products by amending certain clauses. The notice modifies the definition of textile products to include intermediate products that can now benefit from the environment-friendly label. The validity of the Ecolabel requirements for textile products has been extended to 78 months. The criteria were due to expire in June 2018. Unde

Over 300 textile and garment units in India have agreed transition to production practices that ensure safety and well-being of workers and protection of the environment under the initiative of the government of Netherlands, a huge importer of fabrics and also a champion of labour and environment issues. The agreement, which will be governed by Netherlands laws and is signed by Dutch minister for foreign trade and development EMP Ploumen, has 64 companies, representing 80 consumer brands.

Pakistan government revises cotton output target by 10.26 percent to 12.60 million bales for the current season of 2017/18 over an earlier target of 14.04 million bales as the country’s biggest crop producer Punjab fell short of targeted cultivation area for the current year as it was missed by 11.4 percent compared with the official target, which would translate into 12 percent drop in production. Water shortage was attributed as a main reason behind low acreage, officials said on Thursday.

Babar Afzal, a shepherd and Pashmina artist from Jammu & Kashmir, has come out with a first ever initiative called “Global Luxury Pashmina Dialogue Series” to preserve, enhance and re-imagine the authentic handmade Pashmina heritage and explore the possibilities of sustainable luxury development. Udaipur has been identified as one of the first six cities of India to host the Global Luxury Pashmina Dialogue. The objective of the dialogues aims to walk the audience through Pashmina’s journe

Tianyuan Garments Company of Suzhou has signed an agreement with SoftWear Automation of Atlanta to develop a fully automated T-shirt production line at Tianyuan's newly acquired plant in Little Rock, Arkansas, in July. The technology was developed by and is patented by Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center. Using cameras to map the fabric and robots to steer it through the sewing needles, the system will handle soft fabrics and make T-shirts for Adidas, according to the compan

A delegation of Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association left for the United States for marketing of an international carpet expo to be held in Lahore in October. Vice chairman of the Association Riaz Ahmed said the association will try to attract foreign delegates for the Oct expo to make the event a success. He told reporters on departure that the association has started contacts with the foreign delegates in the past few months. He said that the gov't cooperation is a must for

The performance of the Chinese economy has been very impressive since the global financial crisis, a US economist said in a recent interview with Xinhua. Since the fourth quarter of 2008, average quarterly real GDP growth in China has been 8.2 percent year on year, while the equivalent figures for the United States and euro area are 1.4 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively, said Paul Sheard, executive vice-president and chief economist of American financial information service provider, S&am