HAMBURG - Online platform and Zalando rival About You is expanding into the second-hand market by offering around 30,000 pre-worn garments in a new 'Second Love' section on its website.About You appears to have soft launched the service which consumers need to search to find at the foot of the navigation within 'Clothing' on its e-commerce platform.Source:Eco Textile

India will soon launch a scheme focused on man-made fibres (MMF) and technical textiles segment, according to textiles secretary Ravi Capoor, who recently told a virtual event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) that the government is also looking at setting up a special export promotion council to promote the technical textiles segment.Pic: ShutterstockThe production-linked Focused Product Scheme’s emphasis is deliberate, he said.Capoor also urged the domestic players to foc

Online exhibition (autumn) on Globaltextiles.com is formally carried out. Globaltextiles.com willset up global textile foreign trade marketing platform for textile enterprises and help them expandinternational marketsand find opportunities overseasunder the circumstance of epidemic. The exhibition will help you find textile trade partners easily just at home. Focus on Onlineexhibition (autumn) onGlobaltextiles.com and create brighter futurewith global buyers.

Vietnamese companies are struggling to fully benefit from the European Union (EU)-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) as the country does not produce enough or competitively-priced raw materials for its textile industry. Businesses are unable to meet rules of origin requirements to enjoy tax incentives, according to the country’s SSI Securities Corporation.Pic: ShutterstockTo do so, they need to use fabrics either domestically produced or imported from countries that have free trade deals with

TEL AVIV - Israeli recycler UBQ Materials has announced a collaboration with retail solutions provider Mainetti to transform household waste into sustainable clothes hangers for the fashion industry.The partnership aims to make use of UBQ Materials's patented technology which claims to be the first to create a bio-based substitute for oil-based plastics entirely from unsorted household waste.The resulting products, currently pending Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) certification, are claimed to reduce

The last two decades have been a tipping point for sustainability. To see how far the industry has come, and what matters for the future, Sorona, a DuPont’s brand of triexta, is reflecting on its history and reinforcing its commitment to enabling fabrics with exceptional performance and sustainability.In 2000, the launch of Sorona as the world’s first 3GT polymer was a significant moment in sustainable textiles. It wasn’t until 2-years later that the USDA BioPreferred® program was initiated. Onc

In the new-normal of COVID-19, the apparel supply chain has been focusing on sustainability. Which was also shown in the just concluded Kingpins show. Denim players across the supply chain presented the innovations and projects being developed for Spring/Summer ’22 last week. This year, the denim industry’s most sought event hosted digitally.Figure: Sustainability was the key focus of most denim technology providers.Sustainability was the key focus of most denim technology providers. Also, they

Philippines based textile institute recently demonstrated their success of Natural Dyes Research and Development program. Department of Science and Technology of Philippines Textile Research Institute arranged a virtual presser with the theme ‘Capturing Colors: Philippine Natural Dyes’.It was part of their promotion of Philippine Natural Dyes with sharing R&D accomplishments and its impact and highlighting opportunities and forwarding plans for the Philippine natural dyes industry.Figure: De

US mall landlords too are feeling the heat of the massive turbulence in the American retail world.Image Courtesy: bizjournals.comCBL and PREIT, the reputed mall owners, took the American retail sector by storm when they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a gap of just 24 hours.Not surprising considering the large number of bankruptcies the US retail industry has seen this year – all thanks to coronavirus.According to court papers, 2020 has seen 30 of CBL’s retail tenants file for bankruptcy, wit

Some more worries for New Look!Image Courtesy: northdevongazette.co.ukThe landlords of the British global fashion retailer have challenged the company voluntary administration (CVA) that had got a go-ahead by the creditors in September 2020.Yet again, there are now doubts over New Look’s survival. Notably, British Land and Land Securities are among the landlords who have challenged the CVA.Reportedly, there are 4 separate challenges. Sources close to the matter say that challenges lack merit and