UK fashion brands and retailers have hailed the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) draft guidance about ‘green claims.’ As reported by Drapers Online, CMA released a draft of six principles earlier this year for businesses including fashion brands to follow while making environmental claims. It entails, brands need to be truthful, accurate, clear and unambiguous, while making such claims. They must not omit or hide important information, must only make fair and meaningful comparisons, must consider the full life cycle of the product, and must be substantiated.

The CMA will now enter a consultation period on the draft guidelines until 16 July with the final guidance expected to be released at the end of September. The new principles were put forward after the CMA began researching the impact of green marketing on consumers last year, and found that 40 per cent of green claims made online could be misleading.

Twanna Doherty, Managing Director and Owner, Yogamatters, an online yoga-wear and equipment retailer says, the new guidelines could also help retailers navigate claims from their suppliers. However, they could also lead to an increase in misleading information, adds Rebecca Morter, Founder and CEO, Lone Design Club, a popup retail concept.

International fashion brands Zara, Anthropologie, and Patowl have been accused of using patterns from indigenous Mexican groups in their designs without any benefit to the communities. Mexico's Ministry of Culture has sent letters signed by Culture Minister Alejandra Frausto to all three global companies, asking each of them to explain on what basis it could privatize collective property.

As per a Reuters report, the ministry accused Zara of using a pattern distinctive to the indigenous Mixteca community of San Juan Colorado in the southern state of Oaxaca. Anthropologie, owned by URBN, has been accused of using a design developed by the indigenous Mixe community of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, while Patowl copied a pattern from the indigenous Zapoteco community in San Antonino Castillo Velasco, both in the state of Oaxaca, according to the Ministry of Culture.

The extent to which fashion designers have profited from incorporating cultural designs without acknowledging their origins or fairly compensating communities has been a point of contention in recent years.

To maximize overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO), Marzoli launched the YarNet-Production Management Tool. This tool has been designed to provide end-to-end solution integrating overall production monitoring and control needs for Marzoli and third party machinery into one single platform, managing multiple spinning plants and multiple units across the textile value chain. The software registers and stores all production data, machines operating conditions, machine statuses and technological parameters.

It allows companies to elaborate these data with useful functions and obtain valuable information in the form of tables, colours, charts, and diagrams. It further enables the customer to interact directly with the machine by downloading, editing, and sending production recipes.

The tool enables companies to monitor their spinning mills It gives them a complete overview of their plant. It also enable them to manage production, prevents machine downtime and prevents them from making any mistake in production processes.

The European Social Partners for the Textile, Clothing, Leather, and Footwear (TCLF) have issued a joint statement to guide industries through the current green and digital transition, while facing tough global competition, stressing the need to safeguard the industries and protect jobs in Europe. The statement highlights the need for a dedicated strategy with support at national and EU level to help the TCLF sectors survive the COVID-19 pandemic, while they continue to face tough, and, sometimes unfair, global competition. The social partners of TCLF industries fully support the EU’s ambitions for a green and digital transition of the sectors, but insist on concrete European measures to help the industries transform while the continues to suffer from an unequal global playing field.

The joint statement includes demands like full engagement with social partners in both the recovery and the transition of the industries, support for the EU Pact for Skills for the relevant ecosystem, a revision of the GSP which doesn’t negatively impact the sectors and its workers, support to decarbonise the sectors, careful consideration of the Due Diligence Legislation and quality dialogue with Social Partners ahead of the EU Sustainable Products Initiative and the Consumer Agenda to ensure that all policy gaps are addressed. The joint statement also demands special attention to the forthcoming EU Textiles Strategy which should fully represent the needs of the EU’s entire textiles ecosystem.

Picanol will display two airjet weaving machines, four rapier weaving machines for flat fabrics, as well as one rapier machine for weaving terry towel at ITMA ASIA+CITME 2021. Furthermore, it will display an additional rapier machine in jacquard execution at the Bonas booth

Picanol will also launch two new rapier machines: the brand new GTMax-i 3.0S will be shown in a 4 color dobby execution, weaving a denim style, whereas the new GTMax-S on display will be an 8 color dobby machine in 380 cm reed width weaving a silk fabric.

The new GTMax-i 3.0S sets the benchmark for competitive and qualitative weaving – and it’s also available in 240 and 250 cm reed width for ultimate stretch fabrics.

Picanol will also be demonstrating an OptiMax-i gripper machine in free flight execution of 540 cm width at the exhibition. This represents a significant innovation breakthrough for specific technical segments.

PVH Corp has expanded partnerships for NYC Pride 2021 as a Gold Sponsor for six events throughout the year besides committing to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) program. The company is also partnering with PFLAG National on education and awareness opportunities for associates.

As per Fashion Network, the company’s LGBTQIA+ business resource group WERK will involve associates in virtual events, content series and a community giving campaign during Pride month.

PVH will continue its “Let’s Talk” series with a discussion on Pride, the LGBTQIA+ community and the importance of both celebration and education, as well as its Point of View video series and @Home Photo series to highlight how its associates around the world are celebrating Pride

The PVH Foundation is equally sponsoring a giving campaign for the entire month of June that will match all contributions dollar for dollar from North American corporate associates to Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG National, Ali Forney Center and The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD).

Among its brands, Calvin Klein is launching #proudinmycalvins. The campaign, which revisits the defining moments in the queer journey, will rollout throughout the year alongside additional #proudinmycalvins content.

Meanwhile, the Pride 2021 collection features underwear, apparel and accessories in a limited-edition palette from Calvin Klein, which is available on calvinklein.com and offers consumers the opportunity to learn more about each LGBTQIA+ organization as well as donate.

VDMA will organize a webtalk series offering the possibilities to know the latest textile technologies and products to be shown at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2020 virtually.

As per Apparel Resources, the webtalk series will enable Asian textile and nonwoven manufacturers who won’t be able to able to attend the fair due to COVID-19 restrictions. The first webtalk will discuss the products of Mahlo on 1 June which will be themed – “Your Data Highway to the Future.”

According to VDMA, equipped with one of the best scanner ranges in the market and with the experience of more than 75 years, the inventor of weft straightening Mahlo is also leading the way in terms of the data management, making the relevant data available wherever it is needed and this is touted as the overall task of the industry.

The leading Asian textile machinery fair – ITMA ASIA + CITME 2020 – is scheduled to take place in Shanghai from 12 to 16 June 2021. It will hold more webtalks in coming days.

Jean Paul Gaultier is launching a new ready-to-wear collection which reinterprets his trademark striped sailor tops. The collection will be available online at the end of the week, just in time for the LGBTQ Pride festival season.

US model Bella Hadidwill feature in the collections campaign, sporting the new ‘unisex, inclusive’ collection ‘that exudes sea air’. The collection revives Gaultier's ready-to-wear lines, it added.

Nicola Lecourt Mansion has created a black body mesh, strassed with stripes, while Spanish stylist Palomo Spain designed a floral corset. And German house Ottolinger has reworked the sailor shirt in a tight-fitting jumpsuit with distorted zebra stripes.

The conical bra made famous by Madonna has been reinterpreted by London-based Brazilian punk jewellery designer Alan Crocetti. Frenchman Marvin M'Toumo is in charge of the "shellfish and crustaceans" accessories.

Gaultier will resume his haute couture shows, also with guest stylists, in Paris in July,The first guest designer for Gaultier's couture collection is Japan's Chitose Abe, of the Sacai brand.

As per Business Standard, the company’s revenue from operations rose by 62.72 per cent to Rs 880.76 crore during the quarter as against Rs 541.28 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.

PIL's total expenses increased by 44.4 per cent to Rs 733.69 crore in Q4 FY 2020-21 from Rs 508.10 crore in the year-ago period.

However, for the fiscal year, which ended on March 31, 2021, PIL reported a marginal decline in its net profit to Rs 340.58 crore. It has a net profit of Rs 343.22 crore in the previous year.

Its revenue from operations was down to 3.82 per cent to Rs 2,832.96 crore in FY 2020-21. It was Rs 2,945.54 crore in FY 2019-20.

Bengaluru-based Page Industries is the exclusive licensee of American underwear brand Jockey International for manufacture, distribution and marketing in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, UAE, Oman and Qatar. The company is also the exclusive licensee of Speedo International for India.

Accelerating Circularity has launched a new project in Europe. According to Karla Magruder, Founder President, the launch of this project advances the company’s goal of enabling the industry to achieve a scaled, global, circular textile system.”

The founding members of Accelerating Circularity Europe’s Steering Committee represent leaders in global retail, circular supply chain, and textile recycling. They include DuPont Biomaterials, European Outdoor Group, GIZ, Gr3n, Inditex, Lenzing, Recover™, Recyclatex Group, Reverse Resources, Texaid, and Zalando.

The Steering Committee will set the strategy and make decisions for the European project. They will convene a Brand and Retailer Working Group for the development of take back programs and circular product specifications. Select collectors, recyclers, and preprocessors will comprise a Spent Textile Working Group to address challenges in collection, sorting, and feedstock preparation. As in the U.S., The European project will unfold in phases: research and mapping, modeling and linking, then trials and evaluation. The new project will expand upon the work done to date and adapt it to the European context.