The manufacturers of garment machinery in the city are losing out to better quality and cost-effective machinery imported from South-east Asian and European countries. Once the backbone of the local garments and knitwear industry, garment machinery manufactures are finding it hard to continue. They also blame the government for not providing enough support to them to upgrade technology. President of the Garments Machinery Manufacturers' and Suppliers' Association, Ram Krishan, said: “There w

Top 10 Categories in Rising Top 10 Categories in Falling 1.Belt 2.10% 1.Bedding -1.92% 2.Thread & Rope 1.41% 2.Nylon Fabric -1.45% 3.Fashion Fabric 1.19% 3.Lining -1.43% 4.Polyester Fabric 0.85% 4.Viscose/Wool Fabric -1.01% 5.Household Textiles 0.61% 5.Apparel Lining -0.72% 6.Other Chemical Fiber 0.51% 6.Cotton Fabric -0.69% 7.Viscose Fabric 0.49% 7.Chemical Fiber Grey Cloth -0.69% 8.P

Top 10 popular fabric (2013-06-17) Item Width(cm) Weight/Composition/Specification Price(Yuan/m) Printed artificial cotton 145 30s×30s,68×68 6.70-6.90 Fine-thread Polyamide polyester 150 230T ,170g 8.00 240T half-elastic polyester pongee 140 120g,dty75D×fdy75D 4.00 Cotton fine twill fabric 148 32s×32s,130×70 full process 11.80 Double-sided dacron drill 148 21s×21s(t/c80/20),126×54 9.50 Printed chiffon ra

Luxury fashion and fragrance have long gone hand in hand—after all, perfume bottles do make for the ultimate collectible item! And speaking of bottles that are sure to stand out, WWD announced this morning that Alexander McQueen will be launching a men and women’s fragrance line. The deal was made by P&G’s Prestige division, who also just announced a fragrance deal with Stella McCartney. (Could a fragrance deal with a third designer be announced by the week’s end?) Since its last perfume wa

James Turrell, Aten Reign, 2013. Daylight and LED light. Temporary site-specific installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ? James Turrell | Photo: David Heald ? SRGF Today, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced that Dior will be the lead sponsor of its fall gala, taking place on the 6th and 7th of November, 2013, and honouring artists Christopher Wool and James Turrell, whose light exhibition “Aten Reign” is set to open at the museum tomorrow. Raf Simons, Dior’s artistic dire

Versace Spring/Summer 2013 campaign | Source: Versace Gianni Versace SpA, an Italian maker of $950 flower-print jeans, expects to decide by “October or November,” if it will sell a minority stake publicly or privately to fund growth, chief executive officer Gian Giacomo Ferraris said. “We are still looking at the numbers,” Ferraris said late yesterday before Versace’s menswear fashion show in Milan. Versace hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Banca IMI SpA last year to explore growth opt

At this point, making fun of Taylor Swift's love life is old news, but for some reason, Abercrombie & Fitch decided to jump on the bandwagon and sell a line of T-shirts on the subject that reads, "# more boyfriends than t.s." The T-shirt seems harmless to me, but Taylor's fans are pretty outraged and have taken action against Abercrombie with a petition on Change.org that asked the retailer to stop selling the shirt. One fan went as far as posting the phone number

Despite being the largest polyester producer in the world, China is still struggling to exert its influence over paraxylene (PX) prices, the most important raw material used in the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA). During the past three years, China’s imports of PX have represented 36%, 42% and 45%, respectively, of total domestic consumption. Expansion in China’s polyester production has lead to increased competition to secure raw materials, from which PX producers in Japan an

A proposed cotton deal between Dhaka and New Delhi has been stalled over difference of opinion in respect of providing guarantee by Bangladesh for mandatory import of the item, sources said. Bangladesh was negotiating with India for getting 1.5 million bales of cotton a year. The two neighbours had also moved to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard. During the negotiation Bangladesh proposed that any Indian ban on cotton will come into effect only after providing it with 1.5

Japanese retail giant Uniqlo plans to bolster its garment order volumes from Bangladesh, a top official of the company said. “I do not want to disclose the volume though, as it is a business secret,” Yukihiro Nitta, group executive officer of Fast Retailing, Uniqlo’s parent company, told The Daily Star in an interview. The company has decided to divert 30 percent of its annual purchases from China to Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia. Bangladesh will be a “significan