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Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM) will highlight its solutions at Techtextil North America, which will be held in Atlanta, GA, this month.
The company will showcase tapes and webbings that engineers can use to meet their advanced material needs, including: conductivity properties needed for smart textiles, colour requirements, flame resistance, durability, flexibility, chemical resistance, controlled elongation, specific strength, and lightness properties.
With more than 95 years of textile manufacturing experience, BRM designs, develops and manufactures woven webbing, tapes, specialty fabrics, woven preforms, and two dimensional and three dimensional structural fabrics. Working in aerospace, defence, medical, safety, automotive, commercial, and industrial applications, the company offers technical know-how, extensive weaving capabilities, and quality assurance systems.
Russia, a non-traditional export destination for Bangladeshi garments, has a market of $52 billion in garments sector,which Bangladesh has recently begun to target.
As part of this, the country will hold a fair in Moscow from May 21-23, 2018.
The fair will target Bangladeshi garments and jute sector entrepreneurs, organisation of owners and entrepreneurs of ready-made garment sector BGMEA, jute entrepreneur, BJMC and Jute Diversification Promotion Center (JPDC).
The fair will be held at the Radisson Slavianskaya Hotel and business center in Moscow.
The Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau and the Bangladesh Embassy of Moscow will organise the fair
The London-based apparel-sourcing trade show, Fashion SVPwill launch Source Denim, a boutique-size segment dedicated to denim, at the June 26-27, 2018 event to be held at the London Olympia.
The event will offer attendees all of their sourcing requirements under one roof.
The event will be a one-stop shop for all things from small volumes or huge, raw denim, selvedge, non-selvedge, washed in any number of ways, treated and finished in any number of ways, chain-stitched, dyed, organic, ethical, sustainable, conservative, contemporary or fashion forward.
Exhibitors will include Soorty, Spy Denim, Siddiqsons from Pakistan, Suryalakshmi and Billoomi from India, Portugal-based Marjomotex and more.
This 4th edition of the Women in Motion Award Dinner was celebrated May 13th on the Place de la Castre, in Cannes.
The event was attended by around 200 guests including actresses Isabelle Huppert, Diane Kruger, LéaSeydoux, GolshiftehFarahani, LaetitiaCasta, Claudia Cardinale, Chiara Mastroianni, Chris Lee, AnaïsDemoustier, Cécile Cassel, ChloëSevigny,
VirginieLedoyen, ClémencePoésy along with actors Vincent Perez, Pierre Deladonchamps, Matt Dillon, Z. Tao and Laurent Lafitte.
On this occasion, François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of Kering, Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Festival of Cannes, awarded the Women in Motion Prize to the American filmmaker Patty Jenkins.
Actress and producer Salma Hayek Pinault chose to honor the Catalan Director Carla Simón with the Young Talents Award and financial support for her future film projects.
To be held on May 15, 2018 in Denmark, The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, will feature many top brands including Nike, H&M, C&A, G-Star Raw and Levi Strauss which have fully aligned with the Transparency Pledge, a threshold minimum standard of supply chain transparency in the apparel sector developed by nine non-governmental organisations and global unions.
The summit program will cover diverse topics including transparency in the garment industry which allows worker representatives to better protect factory workers from abuse that can endanger their jobs, health, and even their lives. And it assures the people who buy the products that the people who made the products can easily find out which brands they produce for—a critical piece of information needed to escalate complaints about labor abuses.
Steve Madden, the New York-based footwear brand with a global presence, has recently created an innovative window display at all of their major exclusive stores in India. The brand installed the tail part of the yellow taxis to showcase the collection of shoes and lifestyle accessories.
Executed by Brand Pulse, the Mumbai-based retail solution provider, the brand used material like thermocol to create such interesting props for the store. It has rolled out such innovative installation window in their 20 exclusive stores across India and 8 traffic signals.
The brand is getting lot of walk-ins due to this in-store display. Its trials too have gone up and it looks at exploring different VM elements for different seasons to promote their new collections.
Vietnam’s textile and garment exports are growing rapidly due to a strong growth in the country’s fibre and yarn production. Vietnam earned 31 billion USD from exporting textiles and garment products, fibre, cotton and materials in 2017, of which exports of fibre contributed 3.59 billion USD, up 22.7 percent year-on-year.
In addition to traditional textiles products, high value-added items such as fabrics, fibre and yarn and textiles and garments accessories have grown well in the first months of 2018. Notably, the country’s fibre and yarn export alone reached 906 million USD in the first quarter of 2018. Prior to 2000, the spinning sector’s production scale reached only 1 million spindles but its capacity was raised to 3.7 million spindles in 2007 and 7 million spindles at present.
MEX Exhibitions will organise Gartex 2018 from August 18-20, 2018 in New Delhi. The show, spread over 1 00,000 sq. ft. of the exhibit area, will be held across 4 halls in Pragati Maidan. More than 150 companies will display around 300 brands. It will focus on the latest developments under four distinct sections namely DIGITEX: An exclusive focus on Digital Textile Printing Technology, Embroidery Machines: Highlighting innovations in Embroidery sector, Garmenting and Apparel Machinery: Showcasing technological developments in the Garment and Apparel Manufacturing Sector and Fabric and Accessories Pavillion specially crafted to facilitating exhibitors dealing in fabric and accessories sectors with more focused business environment. A trending Denim Zone will be showcased along with the mentioned show highlights.
This year, Gartex has collaborated with Denim Manufacturers Association (DMA) of India and have specially created a Denim Zone to provide a platform for denim manufacturers to showcase denim products. Along with the fabric and textile, the show would prove beneficial for the value chain of Denim including a gamut of accessories like zipper, buttons, finishing equipment and laundry equipments.
The 19th edition of Textech, to be held on September 12, 2018 in Bangladesh, will provide an international platform for the exhibitors to interact directly with the buyers/ importers for the ever-growing textile and garment industry of Bangladesh. The event will provide an opportunity for the investments occurring in Bangladesh.
"Textech will once again be a great B2B platform with a unique networking opportunity for textile, garment and machinery manufacturers to interact face to face with the textile and apparel manufacturers in the exhibition," says CEMS-Global, exhibition organiser.
Only has launched Black Forever Denim by Soorty.
Black Forever delivers a mix of innovation, craftsmanship and expertise.
Only is a brand belonging to Bestseller.
The launch of ecological denim utilizing new fashionable and sustainable solutions is available in a variety of applications – jeans, skirts, tops, and jackets.
Black Forever turns black denim into a timeless piece of clothing, featuring lower impact in dyeing and super soft hand feel, giving the wearer amazing comfort even after many home laundries. There is a lower environmental footprint with Black Forever using less water, chemicals, and energy than conventional dyed products.
The Black Forever approach is futuristic, fashionable, and ecological.
Fashion trends and inspiring editorial content are the backbone of Bestseller, a family-owned accessories and clothing company based in Denmark. The company, which aims to provide fast affordable fashion for consumers worldwide, features a diverse portfolio of more than 20 different apparel brands, including Jack & Jones, Noisy May and Only Blue Denim.
Bestsellers’ brands are sold globally through e-commerce platforms and marketed across Canada, Europe, the Middle East and other core international regions.
Soorty, based in Pakistan, is known for innovative denim fabrics and jeans. Soorty currently has a pre- and post-consumer waste shredding plant, offers vertical eco-friendly solutions from sourcing to finished product and operates a gold rated garment factory in Bangladesh.
