Job seekers throng at the first job fair after Spring Festival in Hangzhou. More than 2,500 positions are offered. However, the garment trade is struggling to recruit employees. A man walks past a huge employment advertisement at a garment factory on Xinye Street. HUGE employment advertisements hang from the garment workshops and factories that line Hangzhou's Xinye Street, beneath which are lines of interview booths. The ads feature practical information, detailing jobs, pay - includ

Wool manufacturer Mogol Noos officially opened a wool threading factory on Monday. Mogol Noos, which was established in 1990, has trial tested the factory since 2011. The threading factory is part of a government project that aims to supply all domestic tailoring factories with domestically-produced woollen fabric. The threading factory was established with funding from South Korea and incorporates South Korean threading technology. The government intends to build three or four fabric fact

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has closed the case against city-based textile machinery major Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW) for the alleged abuse of its dominant market position for spinning machinery for textiles. Bangalore-based Shahi Exports had filed a complaint with the CCI stating LMW had increased the price of the spinning machinery it had ordered using its dominant position. LMW held about 60% market share in when the dispute arose in FY11. It was alleged that the opposite par

Pakistan Textile City, which dropped its own plan to set up a 250-megawatt captive power plant, signed an agreement with Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) for the supply of 50MW. The agreement for uninterrupted supply of electricity to the industrial zone from KESC's newly-installed 560MW Bin Qasim Plant was signed by CEO of KESC Nayyer Hussain and Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, the Chairman of Pakistan Textile City at a ceremony held at the KESC Head Office. The signing ceremony was also attend

Sophia Bush, Emmy Rossum , Orlando Bloom , Miranda Kerr and Helen Hunt were among the guests who joined H&M and Global Green USA to celebrate their partnership and the kickoff of H&M's global garment recycling program at Global Green's 10th annual Pre-Oscar party. H&M, as a proud sponsor of the event, featured an exclusive H&M Conscious lounge which highlighted H&M's key sustainability initiatives including their fashionable Conscious clothing collections. An ivory organi

After the long winter Yamamay is back with the hottest spring 2013 Collection and, at last, the sun shines. A romantic, refined and captivating woman, the super-sensual model Tiffany Keller, is captured by photographer Umberto Barone. A warm and ethereal light creates a game of parallelisms: veils that are as soft as fabrics, an elegant mood that beautifully catches the patterns and colours of these wonderful materials. Yamamay picks laces, macramé, sheer fabrics and trasparencies and make

Spring Fair International, organised by i2i Events, opened on February 3rd 2013 at the NEC and welcomed over 68,116 visitor’s, including more than 5,000 international buyers looking to export British goods abroad - with overall visitor numbers up 6% on last year. Buyers attended from leading independent retailers and all of the UK’s major stores including Selfridges, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Hamleys, Harrods, Liberty, Tesco and Marks & Spencer were well represented. Spring Fair offere

This February sees John Lewis launch KIN – the department store’s first ever ‘lifestyle’ brand – and KIN’s tailoring offer, both of which have been concepted and designed by the John Lewis in house design studio. Spanning menswear, womenswear and childrenswear, KIN is a hard-working weekend wardrobe that comprises of contemporary, fresh and affordable high quality pieces with a distinctly Scandinavian minimalist feel. KIN’s formal counterpart, KIN tailoring, has been designed to appeal to me

In response to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) announcement that it plans to develop a line of “smart” clothing, CAGW excoriate postal management for its misguided attempt to step into non-postal, commercial markets when the organization is facing bankruptcy and is on the verge of needing a taxpayer bailout. In its announcement, USPS executives confirmed that they have entered into a licensing agreement with the Cleveland-based Wahconah Group to market a line of men’s fashion called

Indonesia's biggest polyester maker, PT Asia Pacific Fibers (APF), expects to raise production by 14.9 percent to 1.04 million ton this year and plans to expand sales to China and the United States, media quoting top official of the firm said on Thursday. President Director of APF V. Ravi Shankar said that the expansion of export to China and the US was going to be carried out this year. "For those markets, we will target new industries, whose end products are used in automotive and home furn