Bangladesh has rejected India’s request to notify it as a country from where it imports cotton yarn as input for textile products it exports to the European Union (EU). “Bangladesh has not accepted India’s request,” Minister of State for Commerce and Industry D Purandeswari told the Lok Sabha in a written reply on March 4, according to Business Standard, an Indian English-language daily newspaper. India had been requesting Bangladesh for more than a year now to extend the EU’s generalised sch

Lands' End introduces an exclusive new swimwear technology that knits varying levels of tension control into the lining of Shape & Enhance swimsuits. This breakthrough in swimwear is accomplished through a body mapping process that targets the areas women most want to smooth, while still offering comfort and freedom of movement. The Shape & Enhance collection features silhouettes in one-pieces, tankini tops and a choice of skirted or bikini bottoms. "The Lands' End Shape & Enhance

Hanes, America's No. 1 Brand of Family Basics [ii], is honored to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's highly coveted Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award for 2013. The award is the company's fourth consecutive year of Energy Star recognition and its second consecutive year as a recipient of the Sustained Excellence Award, which is given to a select group of organizations that have exhibited outstanding sustainability leadership year after year. Hanes will be honored for its comm

Inspired by the notion of travel and re-invention, Laura Ashley's Spring/Summer 2013 collections are all about looking forward to a new era: a mix of new pieces and reinvented bestsellers mean that they embody the key looks for SS13 in true Laura Ashley style. The Lemoncello & Colour Pop spring collections are vibrant & zesty with shades of orange and yellow which create exciting pops of colour against silver-grey and earthy tones. Both of these ranges showcase contemporary classics s

Eighty per cent of small and medium-scale enterprises (SME) could be forced to shut down if the Government's proposed minimum wage policy of between RM800 to RM1,000 is implemented across the board. The SMI Association of Malaysia said SMEs were mostly labour-intensive and based on the nature of their operations, they would not be in the position to absorb the cost spike. The effects of such ruling would be harder on the SMEs if implemented on a blanket basis, national vice-president Micha

Workers’ unions as well as the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) need to reach a compromise over the wage debate, Vong Sovann, Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of Social Affairs’ Strike Resolution Committee has said. The official, who is supervising the wage negotiations, said the existing minimum wage of US$ 61 per month is very less and the garment workers are seeking a hike in wages, which however is not acceptable to factory owners, The Phnom Penh Post reported.

The domestic textile industry will be greeted with opportunities and orders in the near future. Saigon 3 Garment Company factory According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the export quota in the first quarter of 2013 reached $1.05 billion, a 28.4pct increase compared to the same period last year. Most textile firms already have a lot of orders. The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex) said Vietnam is on a priority list with many foreign importers. Even though the

Germany is keen to collaborate with Gujarat in manufacturing automotive fabrics, medical textiles, sport textiles, agro textiles, and protective textiles. Four technical textile firms from the European nation were in Ahmedabad on Thursday to express interest in participating in Gujarat's technical textiles story. The German companies such as Eurotextiles GmbH and Co. KG, Nextrusion GmbH, SR Webatex GmbH, Ploucquet GmbH are interested in partnership with textile industries in Gujarat for technol

For Fall Winter 2013, Creative Directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli designed a collection inspired by the paintings of Flemish masters and recognize their undeniable connections with our contemporary world: a glorification of everyday life; serene yet with a sense of detail and a taste for color. Silhouettes are sleek and seemingly severe: small and curved like a vase or straight, they reveal the legs, graze the knee and touch the ankle Fragile sensuality is subtly expresse

Tom Dixon dives into uncharted waters in an unprecedented collaboration with sportswear company adidas, to be revealed this April at MOST at Salone del Mobile, in Milan. Premiering new typologies of bags and apparel, the base of the collection comprises two travel bag typologies – the hard and the soft – an experiment in capsule thinking in which luggage unclasps, unzips and unfolds to reveal multiple layers. Inside, the bags reveal a complete kit of parts for our week long stay in Italy –