Fashion chain KappAhl gathers its sustainability work under the "Future, Friendly, Fashion" concept. "Our sustainability work strengthens KappAhl’s offer to the customer. With Future, Friendly, Fashion we show that these issues are high on our agenda and it also gives us the opportunity to clearly communicate our efforts," says KappAhl's President and CEO Johan ?berg. The fashion chain has chosen to gather its sustainability work under Future, Friendly, Fashion in connection with the launc

Rachel Stevens is to become the first celebrity face of the Next 'Petites' range. From January 2013, her images will be featured in all 550 stores nationwide and in the UK's only glossy hardback home shopping publication; the Next Directory. Her beautiful images will also feature on Next online – the biggest fashion e-tailor in Europe, with over 2 million weekly customers. Rachel, 34, epitomizes the smaller customer at just 5ft 1 and a size 6-8. She said: "Being petite, I’ve always foun

As many Brits brace themselves for yet more snow, sleet and ice this week, shoppers at department store Debenhams have been looking ahead to warmer months and snapping up new season swim and beach wear. Sales of swimwear are up 51% compared to this time last year, with bikinis, swimsuits, beach hats and flip flops all being popular January purchases. Many shoppers are snapping up their holiday essentials from the comfort of their own homes, with 80% of swim and beachwear purchases being ma

Vietnam’s Tien Son Thanh Hoa Corporation has inaugurated the first phase of its garment plant in Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa province. It took about 15 months for the completion of the construction of the first phase of the garment unit, which has been set up on an area of 3.1 hectares. The new unit has capacity to produce three million units of apparels per annum and is expected to export clothing worth US$ 60 million per year. The first phase of the project has resulted in creation o

There has been a record rise in Bangladesh’s apparel exports to new emerging markets during the first six months of the current fiscal year that started on July 1, 2012. Indicative of a year-on-year rise of 24.11 percent, new markets contributed around US$ 996.89 million of the US$ 9.94 billion that Bangladesh earned from exports of woven and knit garments during the first half of the current fiscal, according to the data released by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). Europe accounted for

Sunbrella fabrics featuring recycled content continue to expand with the latest addition from internationally acclaimed home furnishings designer Richard Frinier. His newest creation for Sunbrella, “Origins’,” takes advantage of the rich surface texture and mottled color ways that are making Sunbrella Renaissance fabrics increasingly popular with the design trade and consumers. "We are living in a time when people are more interested than ever in reducing our carbon footprint," Frinier said.

Beginning Sunday, January 27, Cricket Radio will exhibit four new lines of luxury linen home products at the twice-annual New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF). Cricket Radio is a Vermont-based company specializing in hand-printed, sustainable linens featuring globally inspired designs. Launched in the summer of 2012, Cricket Radio brings an ethnic-modern sensibility to the home with a refreshing mix of the traditional and primitive, in both classic and unexpected color combinations. This

Micro Modal Edelweiss is produced in Austria at Lenzing AG from European beech wood and consists of 100 % renewable, natural raw material. Beech wood is not grown on forestry plantations, beech wood forests occur frequently in Northern and Central Europe where they have shaped the landscape of these regions for centuries. The stock of beech wood is obtained as a result of "rejuvenation". High crop in spite of low demand for land, refrain from using agro-chemicals and irrigation, characterize thi

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The export of Nepali readymade garments has dropped by more than half as compared to exports about a decade back. Statistics of the Trade and Export Promotion Center reveal that Nepali readymade garments (RMG) that used to have an annual export of around Rs 12 billion some five to six years back has now dropped by more than half. In fiscal year 2011-12, total export of Nepali RMG was worth Rs 4.05 billion while the figure of first five months of the current fiscal year is around Rs 1.55 billi