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Related Keywords: ABFRL, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, apparels, CAIF, clothing, fashion textile, Garments, innovation, innovation factory, Intellcap, ReEarth

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd (ABFRL) are joining a unique and pioneering industry-led platform, 'Circular Apparel Innovation Factory' (CAIF) in collaboration with Intellecap.

CAIF is India's first industry-led platform, aiming to build a circular apparel and textile industry in India. Its mission is to search, seed, support, and scale circular textile and apparel innovations in India by building an enabling ecosystem of brands, manufacturers, enterprises, and innovators across the value chain.

Related Keywords: apparels, be-spoke, e-commerce, fabric, Garments, Indian apparel industry, readymade garments, tailor-made

Today, if anyone asks you the question as to how far is your nearest mall, where you shop for your clothes, the answer should be "not far from my where my mobile is".

An e-commerce app, in the present day, is as good as a whole shopping mall fitted in your pocket. Thanks to the access to faster and cheaper internet coupled with larger and crisper mobile screens, e-commerce platforms are supporting be-spoke and tailor-made shopping effortlessly, making shopping fun.

The Evolution

Related Keywords: clothing, England, environment, Ethical Fashion, fashion, Garments, sustainablility

Clothes grown from slime mold and tupperware handbags were among the environmentally-friendly designs and ideas presented by fashion graduates at a London arts school on Friday.

The Royal College of Art is holding its annual fashion show, in which students in women swear, menswear, knitwear, footwear, accessories and millinery unveil their creations.

This year, the “All At Once” show looks at the fashion industry’s impact on the environment at a time when many designer houses are seeking to improve their green credentials to appeal to increasingly environmentally conscious consumers.

Related Keywords: apparel, cotton, exports, fabric, fashion, fiber, Garments, import, India, Industry, revenue, Textile, yarn

India, which is emerging as a global textile hub with huge potential, needs to develop man-made fibre to remain competitive in the global market and it aims to be a $350 billion industry by 2025, industry officials June 6 said.

"It is high time that the industry changes its approach to move into the second growth phase and aim for exports of around $100 billion from the current $40 billion," Textiles Secretary Ajit B Chavan said at the CII Texexcel 2019, the National Textiles 4.0 Summit here.

Related Keywords: China, denims, fashion, Garments, greenhouse gases, manufacturing, sustainable fashion, Textile

Since millions of garments and hundreds millions tones of greenhouse gases are produced during the textile manufacturing process every year, green textiles have been widely recognized by the consumers in recent years. Some international brands such as PUMA have already implemented green textiles in their businesses, PUMA also targets to use 90% sustainable cotton and polyester fibers by 2020.

Related Keywords: export, Garments, growth, Industry, manufacturing, Textile, turnover, Vietnam, Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association

Vietnam has gained nearly USD12.1 billion from exporting garments and textiles in the first five months of this year, posting a year-on-year increase of 10.3 percent.

Revenues of the country's garments and textiles exported to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) soared 31.6 percent, to South Korea up 16.3 percent, to the United States up 9.8 percent, and to Japan up 6.5 percent.

In May alone, the garment and textile export turnovers reached USD2.6 billion, gaining a year-on-year increase of 10.8 percent.

Related Keywords: Bangladesh, decline, export, Garments, import, India, Industry, manufacturing, Textile, Vietnam

The new government would have to rethink its policy on turning around India’s second-largest job provider, as the textile sector continues to gasp for growth. Three years after key regulatory and labour changes were put in place, India’s textile and apparel exports have declined from $38.60 billion in 2014 to $37.12 billion in 2018 while imports have increased from $5.85 billion to $ 7.31.

Related Keywords: clothes, Garments, jackets, knitting, wear, winter, wool

Under the tutelage of my grandmother, I once attempted to knit a peggy square. Just once. The tedium of knitting nearly drove me mad with boredom: swapping loops of wool back and forth from one needle to the other, with nothing to look forward to but more of the same, for row after endless row. And the result of all that teeth-gritting effort? A gangly woollen shape of uncertain geometry, composed entirely - although surely, this can't be possible? - of holes.

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: export, garmenting, Garments, impact, import, India, ITF, readymade garments, supply chain, Textile

Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) has appealed to all brands and retail chains operating in India to source their requirements from within the country instead of importing.

ITF’s appeal comes in the wake of a huge jump in import of readymade garments from Bangladesh.