From Online Sales of Young Woman’s Wardrobe to the Leading Second-Hand Clothing Marketplace in Europe
Micolet was born, almost by chance, in 2015 in Spain. The founder’s partner had clothes she no longer wore but were still in great condition and could have a new life in another girl’s wardrobe.
Eileen Fisher's New York factory is Marie Kondo's worst nightmare: Filled with bags and bags of old clothes, it houses the over 1.3 million garments the brand has collected since launching its take-back program in 2009. These old designs aren't being hoarded for posterity's sake, though. If all goes to plan, one day they'll all be reused instead of sent off to a landfill.
How Eileen Fisher is using old clothes in a new way.
Scientists have developed a novel method to create dyed threads for clothes that change colour when they detect a variety of gases.
The researchers at Tufts University in the US demonstrated that the threads can be read visually, or even more precisely by use of a smartphone camera, to detect changes of colour due to analytes as low as 50 parts per million.
The dyes we used work in different ways, so we can detect gases with different chemistries.
According to the University, the technology is scalable at mass-production levels via a process known as fibre-spinning and is currently produced in Melbourne, Florida, with CREOL’s collaborators at Hills. The CREOL team is currently working with Hills to further reduce the diameter of the threads to produce fabrics for wide-scale market adoption. Finally, the patent-pending fabric is said to have the skill to be used across a large range of applications from clothing and accessories to furniture and fixed installations in housing and business décor.
Consinee, a major Chinese spinner and exporter of cashmere yarn, debuted its runway show in New York City in July to demonstrate its full range of yarn technology. The show, the first of its kind to be offered by a Chinese textile company in the United States, is titled "Into the Lines," alluding to the conceptual interpretation of cashmere yarn. Models present creations made with Consinee yarns during "Into the Lines" runway show in New York, the United States, July 18, 2018.
There was a raincoat from Didriksons in various colours for 299 kroner (25 pounds/33 US dollars) instead of regularly 999 kroner (85 pounds/112 US dollars), or The Cords corduroy pants (corduroy is back!) in charcoal grey, moss green, ash grey, wine red or coffee brown for 199 kroner (17 pounds/22 US dollars) instead of 1299 kroner (110 pounds/145 US dollars). With discounts like these of 70 and 85 percent, respectively, it is worth it to keep an eye on the day’s “Dream Deals”, which are also available for home and furnishing articles.
Vietnam garment and textile export turnover witnessed 1.2 percent growth in the month of January over the same month last year to reach US$1.9 billion, according to Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association.
The production output of garment and textile products such as fabric and clothes have been on the rise compared to the same period last year as many businesses have got orders to produce until the end of the first quarter this year and even the second quarter to some.
