Compression Denim is designed to give women varying levels of support, so they can feel their most confident and sexy at all times.With comfort levels unique to the individual wearer, the collection is designed to give customers the freedom to choose how much they shape their figure.

The Light Compression jean holds in and smooths out the physique. The Super Compression jean enables the wearer to control how much they want to sculpt their waistline with adjustable front buttons. The Mega Compression jean snatches silhouettes with a built-in corset with hook-and-eye closures.

The collection will be available in a variety of Good American’s best-selling silhouettes including the Good Classic, Good Legs, Good Waist, Good Curve Straight, Good Icon, Good Classic Boot, and Good Legs Flare.

With this latest collection, Good American, launched in 2016, is taking another step towards making denim and the fashion industry atlarge even more inclusive. Figure-enhancing skinny jeans were central to Good American’s launch. It now offers a full wardrobe of women’s denim fits spanning bootcut, loose, flare and relaxed fits. In 2020, it introduced Always Fits, a skinny fit, high-rise jean available in five size categories with 100 percent stretchability.

Cisutac is a new European consortium that aims at identifying and eliminating the bottlenecks that hinder circularity in the apparel sector.

Cisutac will start work on technological, industry-specific and socio-economic issues relating to sustainable fashion, concentrating on three areas: repairing, disassembling products and sorting used items to identify those that are recyclable and reusable, with an emphasis on fiber-to-fiber recycling, and circular design. Pilot projects will be carried out in each of these areas. Cisutac will evaluate the creation of semi-automated workstations, assess infrastructure and material flows, and encourage the gradual digitalisation of waste sorting operations. Cisutac also aims to raise awareness, among consumers and the industry as a whole, about circularity issues related to clothes.

Euratex, Inditex, Decathlon and Lenzing are among members of Cisutac. Euratex, the European apparel and textile confederation, will facilitate the circular economy transition, liaise with other projects and initiatives, support the development of training and education material, including master classes, raise awareness in Europe of the environmental impact of textiles and provide input for policy, standardisation and certification to facilitate the transition to the circular economy.

The fashion industry is replacing the take-make-dispose model, which is worn out, with a circular economy for fashion in which clothes are kept at their highest value and designed from the outset to never end up as waste.

Turkish textile and raw materials exports to Morocco increased 30 per cent between January 2022 and August 2022. This is in spite of the fact that Morocco has imposed tariffs on Turkish imports. Turkish textile products, alongside Chinese brands, have flooded the Moroccan fashion sector. The Moroccan textile industry is gradually losing ground to them, particularly in the urban hubs. Morocco had the highest increase in the quantity of imported textiles and raw materials among Turkey’s top export destinations. The others are Italy, Germany, the US, Spain, and France.

The lack of funding as well as limited growth prospects for small and medium-sized Moroccan businesses in the sector represent additional challenges to the development of the local textile industry. Morocco fears for the sustainability of local shops in the light of the Turkish discount store Bim which has rapidly expanded in Morocco over the past few years.

There is a feeling in Morocco that the Morocco-Turkey Free Trade Agreement signed in 2004 has brought more economic benefits to Turkey. So there is a discussion in Morocco of the impact of the free flow of competitive Turkish products to the domestic market.

The Turkish textile and raw materials sector marked seven per cent year-on-year growth by the end of August 2022.

India’s cotton production for 2022 to 2023 will be 15 per cent higher than it was the previous year.

Among the helpful factors are an eight per cent rise in sowing area, favorable weather and good crop conditions. Uncertainty regarding the weather conditions for the cotton crop reduced towards the end of September.

In the first fortnight of the current month, there were concerns about the crop due to forecasts of heavy rains in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Some parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat received sporadic rains in the last week of September but there was no excessive rainfall which could have threatened the crop. North India also witnessed rainfall when the crop was ready for picking. But except for a minor impact in small parts of Haryana, north India faced no major losses. Last year, north India’s cotton crop was severely damaged from diseases like pink ball worm caused by the late monsoon rains. Crop yield reduced in Gujarat and Maharashtra too.

This year, no threats have been predicted for the crop so far. Arrivals in north India comprising Punjab, Haryana, upper Rajasthan and lower Rajasthan are increasing continuously.New cotton prices have witnessed a steep fall in north India despite the late arrivals and a prolonged scarcity before the new crop.

Cotton exports from the US witnessed a steep fall in July 2022 from June 2022.

The new cotton marketing season begins in the country from August and exports had reduced drastically in the last month of the previous year 2021-22. However, the country had exported a large volume of cotton during the earlier months.The country had exported large quantities of cotton till June 2022 due to a scarcity of the natural fiber and skyrocketing prices.Therefore cotton exports dried up in the last month of the previous season.

US cotton exports amounted to $1,162.222 million in May 2022, $1,104.972 million in April 2022, $1,112.802 million in March 2022 and $919.778 million in February 2022.On a quarterly basis, cotton shipment from the US rose to $3.328 billion in the second quarter of this year from $2.820 billion in the first quarter. Exports declined to $1.002 billion in the fourth quarter of last year from $1.254 billion in the third quarter of 2021. Cotton exports amounted to $1.972 billion in the second quarter of last year.

The world’s largest economy earns $6-7 billion on an annual basis from cotton exports. The country had fetched $5.156 billion in 2021, $6.321 billion in 2020, $6.608 billion in 2019 and $7.088 billion in 2018 from cotton shipments.

Adored by millennials, skinny jeans have been trending and holding their pride of place for the longest time. However, rumbles of its popularity on the decline, whilst exaggerated, does hold some truth.

The retail platform Edited recently presented a report that states a sharp fall in men’s skinny jeans where slim-fitted jeans hold on to the number one position. Whilst the demand for skinny jeans hasn’t experienced such a sharp drop in the women’s category, the straight fit has now achieved the number one status although the ladies are still buying full price black, mid-washed and ripped skinnies.

The figures indicate a definite decline – 29% in women’s skinny jeans and a whopping 52% in men’s. In the first half of 2022, blue skinny jeans were the best-sellers with 63% in men’s and 61% women’s, whilst grey was the second most popular colour for men at 11% and black for women at 21%. The report also indicated the different washes preferred by the two genders – men opted for a light wash whereas women chose the mid-wash.

So what’s going on with skinnies? Gen Z flare up

The Zoomers decided that silhouettes needed to change as the craved their own fashion identity. Hence wide-legs and flares are making a comeback. Fashion pundits are saying that skinnies are no longer considered a trend but a staple, joining the ranks of the straight-leg. High street brands have made great slashes to their skinny jeans collections. In the men’s category, these tight trousers held a 48% stake in 2021 but this year, dropped by 27%. Whilst some brands are exploring no-frills skinny jeans as great for travel wear, aviation experts are warning against.

Global denim market

Skinny or not, the global denim market stood at USD 19461.38 million in 2021, and indications are that by 2028, will reach USD 26147.31 with a CAGR of 4.31% during the forecast period. Retail experts attribute this growth based on consumer segmentation of style-types as well as demographic, mass and premium labels, and channels of distribution as e-commerce is gaining steady grounds and becoming a leveler for most mass brands.

Denim’s environmental stamp is a concern

Denim’s environmental footprint is a concern area. As all denims are manufactured from cotton fibres or blends with a high percentage of cotton, this fabric is a large consumer of water as well as chemicals. Many innovative attempts are underway to substitute cotton with fibres that are greener in their production. Hemp is being hailed as a popular alternative and Germany and the Netherlands are leading the way on hemp textiles and are recommending the use of rotor spinning instead of twilling. However, hemp can only go main stream as the cotton substitute of choice if it can also exhibit the toughness and durability of cotton as its key characteristic.

As the denim retail comes out of a pandemic-related setback compounded by the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the economic upheavals in the western world, it does show the resilience associated with the core fabric – here to stay and grow as denim jeans keep reinventing through styles, washes and innovative blends.

Indian polyester staple fiber producers can expect better supply of raw materials as imports of PET flake chipshave been eased.

Concerns were raised about the tight supply of used PET bottles and its downstream products. The PET flake chip can be imported under authorisation from the Director General of Foreign Trade and subject to a NOC from the ministry of environment. A unit will be eligible for import only if it has used domestic waste to the extent of at least 70 per cent of the capacity in the previous year. The unit can import up to 20 per cent of its production in 2021 to 2022. Thereafter it will be able to import only 15 per cent of the actual capacity utilised in the preceding year. An additional import of up to ten per cent may be considered against exports of the products. But units would be eligible for imports after at least one year of production.

Earlier imports of PET bottle waste/scrap/PET flake made from used PET bottles were totally restricted with a view to controlling dumping of scrap.Earlier, India generated thousands of tons of used PET bottles for reuse. The technological developments increased its consumption and today the supply has become tighter for the polyester value chain.

Bangladesh’s readymade garment exports fell by 12 per cent in September 2022 compared to September 2021.And apparel exports in September 2022 decreased by nearly 20 per cent from August 2022. This is because of sluggish demand for apparel products on the global market.

Poor growth in readymade garment exports is expected to continue for the next few months due to the global economic instability. Overcoming the Covid pandemic shock, Bangladesh’s readymade garment sector had started growing with an increased demand on the global market, but the Russia-Ukraine war created a new challenge. Global buyers have decreased their orders by nearly 30 per cent as consumption of apparel has decreased in Europe and the United States due to high inflation.

Bangladesh’s apparel exports from July to August increased by 26 per cent compared to the same period of the earlier fiscal. Exports earnings from apparel in August 2022 grew by 36 per cent compared to the same month of 2021. Apparel export earnings in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 grew by 12per cent compared to the same period of fiscal year 2022.

Bangladesh aims at hiking apparel exports to South Korea with diversified items such as underwear, denims, shirts, jackets and pullovers.

China’s textile industry saw a decline of 14 per cent in its profits during the first eight months of 2022.Earnings of the equipment manufacturing industry of the country also dipped by two per cent during the period, which is three percentage points narrower than that for the January 2022 to July 2022 period.

Industrial firms making a minimum of 20 million yuan on an annual basis reaped combined profits of up to 5.53 trillion yuan from January 2022 to August 2022, which was a decrease of two per cent year on year.

In order to soften the blow of various economic challenges, China has introduced a set of efficient policies to enable economic recovery and re-establish growth. The country had earlier introduced a number of policies such as deferment of payment of government-levied charges, assistance for private businesses and the platform economy, and risk compensation funds for loans to small firms and self-employed people.The country has introduced fee cuts and tax refunds to ease the pressure on businesses. Its policy package is estimated to save about 2.5 trillion yuan for taxpayers in 2022.

Trousers and shorts are China’s top apparel export products. From January 2022 to June 2022 they accounted for 20 per cent of China’s apparel exports.

Egypt will develop a special free zone under the name of Volo Textile Company.

Being an Egyptian joint participant, the firm will operate a textile manufacturing factory for dyeing, finishing, and printing. The project will be built on a gross area of 69,215 square meters and will provide more than 1010 job opportunities for both Egyptians and foreign nationals. The factory is expected to produce 8,400 tons of textile in the first year of inception, with a plan to reach 10,800 tons in the second year.The industrial development will achieve a local component of around 35 per cent and a target export rate of 100 per cent, which will contribute to boosting

Egypt’s exports and reinforcing the performance of foreign trade indicators. Also, a new project will be established for feed manufacturing, chemicals, and plant nutrients. The project is the first industrial complex for feed manufacturing in the Middle East and Africa. The project will be constructed under the company name CFC Feed and Chemicals and will span 3,68,118 square meters. The project will likely create job opportunities for about 2,500 Egyptian workers. The industrial project will use the latest German technology standards and bolster the local feed industry, which is one of the most important strategic sectors in the Arab Republic.