Brazil and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a new South-South cooperation agreement worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries. The four year collaborative effort between FAO, the Brazilian Cotton Institute (Instituto Brasile?o del Algodón, IBA) and the external cooperation wing of Brazil’s Foreign Relations Ministry (Agencia Brasile?a de Cooperación, MRE) will target participating countries

Feeling USA announced that they have added the full Licious collection to their online store, including women's plus size clothing and men's wear. Coco, a glamour model and actress married to actor Ice-T, and well known from her TV realty show "Ice Loves Coco", has started her own fashion line in 2009. She is working closely together with Hey Baby of California, a famous clothes designer, located North of Los Angeles. Coco's designs are perfect for women with curves. She introduced her 2012 c

Following months of anticipation, Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus unveiled their unprecedented holiday collection. The collection, which features 24 of America’s preeminent designers—all members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)—will be available Dec. 1 at all Target and Neiman Marcus stores, as well as online at Target.com and NeimanMarcus.com. In recognition of the 24 designers who created products for the holiday collection, Target and Neiman Marcus are donating a total of

Ann Taylor announces world-renowned actress Kate Hudson will return as the face of the brand's Holiday 2012 advertising campaign. Shot by famed fashion photographer Norman Jean Roy at the Highline Stages in New York City, the campaign is inspired by a deco dinner party and captures Hudson's warmth, her love of the holidays, and the sophistication of the collection. Marking a full year as the face of Ann Taylor, Hudson continues to bring a fresh, new perspective to the iconic fashion brand tha

ETSI, short for "everything simple", is a premium range of luxury clothing for women and girls which first launched earlier this year with its popular line of easy fashion basics. Designed for those who appreciate how clothes feel on their skin as well as how they look, ETSI offers an effortless luxurious style made with natural fibers, and garments which ooze glamour and elegance. Following on from its hugely successful summer line of urban clothing in vibrant colours which included heavenly

Augustin Teboul is the winner of the 2012 Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize. The award was bestowed to the designer at Dorchester Collection’s H?tel Plaza Athénée, after a catwalk show featuring the five shortlisted designers of the prize. Annelie Augustin and Odély Teboul were presented with ?30,000 from Dorchester Collection’s chief executive officer Christopher Cowdray, along with an engraved Baccarat crystal trophy and a stay at a Dorchester Collection property in either Paris or Milan dur

Luxury cashmere brand N.Peal has appointed Helen Lebedeva as Head of Retail. Helen previously worked for seven years at L'Oréal as well as two years at UGG Australia. Helen's remit includes enhancing the brand experience across all N.Peal stores as well as coordinating further expansion in the UK. Having doubled turnover in the past three years to ?5million, future plans include opening a store in Knightsbridge in 2013. A new store concept has been developed by Amos & Amos and this will

In a bid to breathe new life into the country?s carpet industry, producers and exporters of hand-knotted woolen carpet are soon coming up with a new set of strategies, which, among others, cite steps they will take to build good labor relation at home and promote Nepali products abroad. The entrepreneurs took the initiative mainly after persistent slowdown in demand for hand-knotted woolen carpets - a leading exportable product -- in the European countries and weakening supply capacity after la

The Pakistan Textile Exporters’ Association has demanded that the government should launch a bailout for the textile industry, besides removing hurdles and providing necessary incentives to strengthen economy, create jobs and generate forex. PTEA Chairman Asghar Ali and Vice Chairman Muhammad Asif pinpointed various bottlenecks plaguing textile exports. They said that the most ticklish issue was rising cost of production as prices of raw material and inputs like gas, electricity and petroleum