The Face of Prada – Following up a preview, we have a look at the complete resort 2013 campaign from Prada starring Russian beauty Sasha Pivovarova. Steven Meisel photographs the leading model in a sparkling, art-deco inspired setting wearing the label’s sportswear infused resort collection. Decked out in chunky jewelry and techno-silver shoes, Sasha perfects a neo-retro look. Source: Fashion Gone Rougue

The debt-ridden spinning industry might be able to recover from losses and come out of a loan trap this year if cotton prices remain stable at lower levels. The Shanker-6 variety of cotton in Gujarat has slipped from Rs 34,000 a candy (356 kg) to Rs 33,300 a candy in the past five days. The price in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan has also fallen from Rs 32,700 to Rs 31,780 a candy. This has happened when cotton exports have stopped and yarn export has picked up. Both will help the spinning sect

Sri Lanka's Hayleys MGT Knitting Mills Plc, knitted fabric marker said it has cut losses and improved gross margins after going through a restructuring process over the past year. The firm which files US dollar denominated accounts and statements translated into rupees, lost 43 million rupees in the September 2012 quarter down from 186 million rupees a year earlier. The firm reported a loss of 29 cents per share for the quarter. For the six months to September the company reported a loss of

Product Name Width CM Specification/Weight（meter） Wholesale Price：yuan/meter Centipede yarns fashion Flannelette 150 600 18．50 T/C80/20 Plain Cloth 148 45S×45S 110×76 6．80 Rayon Embroidered Cloth 145 30S×30S 68×68 9．40 Rayon Embroidered Cloth flocking 145 30S×30S 68×68 11．30 Polyester cutting printed curtain fabric 280 600 18．50 T/R double-sided woolen

(Graph 1) (Graph 2) Indicated from Graph 1 and Graph 2, the foreign trade prosperity index of October, 2012 closed at 1301.62 points, down 0.33% from September and down 22.70% from that at the beginning of this year. The foreign trade prosperity index dropped 16.41% year on year; the foreign trade price index closed at 107.88 points, down 0.5% from September and declining 13.27% from that at the beginning of this year. The foreign trade price index dropped 24.75% year on year. The fore

Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has released the cotton arrival figures on Saturday. According to a fortnightly report by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association, around 6.85 million cotton bales were sourced to the country's ginners by November 1st, 2012 which shows an increase of 2.20 percent than last year. Chairman PCGA Hamesh Kumar briefed the journalists about seed-cotton (phutti) arrivals, sales and unsold stock of cotton. He said that 52,32,807 cotton bales were sold to the

The annual Taiwan Textile Fair - among the big international industrial events to be held here - will be inaugurated this Monday at Gurgaon's Epicentre. Some of the leading textile companies from Taiwan, which is a major overseas market for the local buyers and sellers, will be among the participants at this three-day event. "The textile fair will act as a business matching platform, and will give opportunities to the Taiwanese textile industry to access their innovative fabrics and accessorie

The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has said that a geographical shift in cotton mill use from China to other Asian countries is currently underway but estimating its actual extent will take time when cotton consumption figures in other countries are available, according to a statement. The ICAC said that cotton yarn imports by China have increased significantly since the beginning of 2012. The ICAC Secretariat estimates that cotton mill use will increase in 2012-13 in India,

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced the successful start-up of the 800Kt/a ethylene unit at Fushun Petrochemical, all the eight production units of the 1Mt/a ethylene capacity expansion project operated together and turned out qualified products, marking the full operation of Fushun Petrochemical's "10 Mt/a refining and 1Mt/a ethylene" project. From now on, Fushun Petrochemical is capable of processing 11.5 million tons of crude and producing one million tons of ethylene per

According to International Cotton Advisory Committee’s (ICAC) general outlook for cotton supply and use for 2012/13 is bleak: global cotton production and mill use are forecast at 25.9 million tons and 23.4 million tons respectively, resulting in an oversupply of 2.4 million tons. Despite the sharp fall in cotton prices in 2011/12, global production is projected down by only 5% this season. Cotton plantings did not drop much due to above-average prices at planting time, government policies and f