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Related Keywords: Canada, clothing, Clothing chains, dress rental company, fashion, NPD Group, Nuuly, Rent Frock Repeat, rental, warehouse

Clothing rental options are evolving from one-off, special occasion outfits to subscriptions for everyday apparel, and a Canadian company is expanding its closet to get in on the trend.

Rent Frock Repeat is relaunching this fall as a monthly clothing subscription service, after eight years in the designer dress rental business.

"[The customers are] the ones that set this in motion, because the demand was there," said Kristy Wieber, president of Rent Frock Repeat.

Related Keywords: Alyx, blockchain, clothing, DLT solution, fashion, Garments, IBM, IOTA, Jaguar, Textile

IOTA’s Tangle and Origin trail’s ODN is being used by luxury fashion brand Alyx to track its garments supply chain.

Alyx customer can use a mobile application to scan QR codes and access every information of their purchase.

DLT solution backed by the blockchain aims to further enhance transparency between manufacturers and customers.

Alyx, a colossal name in the luxury fashion industry, recently announced their partnership with IOTA and that they will be using IOTA’s very own blockchain called ‘Tangle” to track their opaque garments supply chain.

Related Keywords: clothing, eco-friendly, Ethical Fashion, ethical product, fabrics environment, fashion, supply chains, sustainable, Textile

The concept of Where Does It Come From? is self-explanatory. The clothing brand is driving for total transparency in the fashion industry, particularly in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and controversy around a number of fashion brands’ workshop conditions.

All the clothes produced by Where Does It Come From? come with a code on the garment label, so customers can trace the whole supply chain, getting to know the people involved in the production chain, as well as exploring the process.

Related Keywords: Ambiente, CAGR, clothing, India, Messe Frankfurt, Paperworld, Textile

In a strategic re-organization of its trade fair assets in India, Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India has announced the consolidation and relocation of its consumer goods portfolio – with leading brands coming together under one roof. The first combined edition of Interior Lifestyle India, Paperworld India and Corporate Gifts Show will take place from 19 – 22 March 2020 in Mumbai.

Related Keywords: animals, ban, clothing, fur, New York

The New York City Council held a hearing on a proposed fur ban on Monday afternoon.

Supporters said the ban is the humane thing to do, while opponents called the bill a job killer, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.

The New York City flag enshrines the historical importance of the fur industry — two beavers have pride of place in the official insignia. But Council Speaker Corey Johnson said they should be a symbol of the future, not the past.

Related Keywords: apparels, ban, chemical, clothing, fabrics, France, skin, Sweden, Textile

France, Sweden propose ban on over 1,000 allergens in textiles.

The joint initiative includes all substances classified as skin sensitisers under the CLP Regulation and 25 substances of the family of disperse dyes with sensitising properties.

Ahead of the proposal, the French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) conducted a study to identify substances present in certain articles. And the Swedish Chemicals Agency (Kemi) carried out an analysis of risk management options under REACH on skin sensitisers in textiles.

Related Keywords: appparels, Bangladesh, clothing, fabrics, fashion, fast fashion, Mills, sustainability, Textile

It may be quite some time until the fast-fashion industry completely slows down, but with new trends being set in motion, there is now hope that 'slow fashion' is a trend gathering traction.

The demand for 'cool', affordable clothing is hard to keep up with, with clothes being delivered in bulk into highstreet shops to try and match retail expectations. But more often than not, they come with a high environmental price tag in the long term; the fashion industry is the second biggest polluter in the world, only second to oil.

Related Keywords: clothing, coating, Devan, fabrics, HUUB, partnership, Textile

RONSE, BELGIUM – Textile innovator Devan Chemicals and Triathlon & Performance-brand HUUB announce their partnership at the upcoming Performance Days show in Munich. The two companies have been working on a project around Devan’s cool comfort technology ‘Moov&Cool’. The unique formulation, applied to HUUB’s trisuits, was tested and examined by Dr Faulkner, Head of Sports Engineering at Nottingham Trent University, who has now put forward his first findings.

Related Keywords: apparel, clothing, fabrics, fashion, forecast, Garments, innovation, technology, Textile, wearable tech

How many times have you seen a headline around “smart clothing” or “wearable tech” and you’ve been disappointed that the product doesn’t look so wearable at all? Personally, I don’t have enough fingers to count the amount, quite honestly. Despite being sold as "wearable", much of the time, wearable tech is cumbersome and awkward, and never really works as intuitively as you'd like.

Related Keywords: apparels, clothing, export, fabrics, Garments, import, manufacturers, pollution, raw materials, recycling, Textile, traders

Every second, the equivalent of a truckload of fabric is thrown into a landfill or burned, leaching chemicals (such as dye) or non-biodegradable synthetic fabrics (such as polyester) into the ground. Every year, roughly USD 500 billion of barely worn clothing is discarded, even though manufacturing these items takes a tremendous toll on the environment – using coal and petroleum to create synthetic fibers and pesticides to grow natural ones, including cotton.