FashionatingWorld, the leading global network of webplatforms, steered by DFU Publications, was graced with Media Contribution Award at the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics show in Shanghai. The global media company that has been associated with Intertextile Shanghai events for a long time.

Sanjay Chawla, Global Convener, Publisher & Editor in Chief received the awards among few other media dignitaries. This comes as a high recognition being conferred by the biggest apparel fabrics exhibition in the world.

Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics celebrated its 25th anniversary on September 25, 2019, The trade show awarded leading industry players, experts, trade bodies , exhibitors as well as buyers , who have had a prominent association with Intertextile Shanghai exhibition, all these years.

Polartec, a provider of sustainable textile solutions, has unveiled the iconic, American-made, military-issue fabric technologies and finished garments, for Americans. Available directly from the source, these authentic Polartec fabrics and designs are shipped directly from the same US cut and sew manufacturers that have been creating these garments since 2007.

The foundation of the brand’s Gen III Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS) is its Polartec Military Issue Collection. This ECWCS system provides soldiers with a multi-layered, performance driven clothing system that is designed to be versatile and adaptable to varying operational and environmental conditions.

For more than a decade there have been Gen III ECWCS labelled military garment designs for sale online and from select military retail stores. While some of these items are authentic surplus garments, it remains an unregulated grey area. Foreign imitations continue to pop up in their various forms, and even outdoor sporting and hunting brands have adopted military issue garment nomenclature into product descriptions.

Now available directly from the source, these authentic Polartec fabrics and designs are made in America and shipped directly from the same US cut and sew manufacturers that have been creating these garments since 2007.

Japanese Company Uniqlo plans to launch its third store in Madrid, Spain. The brand currently operates two stores in Barcelona. It will open its Madrid store three years after it forayed into the Spanish market. The store will be located in the former El Jardin de Serrano shopping mall and span over 1,500 sq m and is located in the former El Jardín de Serrano shopping mall.

The company plans to open this department store in partnership with El Corte Ingles, one of the largest fashion distributors in Spain and the main stop for international operators who want to gain insight in the country. In 2017, the group’s revenue was 4.9 billion euros with this sector, above what Inditex entered in Spain in the same year.

Together with groups like Levi’s, Ralph Lauren or Esprit, which rely on department stores in their international expansion, or luxury brands such as Dior, Bottega Veneta or Dolce&Gabbana, in El Corte Inglés also operate brands that, like Uniqlo, concentrate the bulk of its distribution in retail.

Saurer will present its new air-spinning machine Autoairo at CIIE that will be held from November 05-10, 2019.

The Autoairo features autonomous spinning positions with individual drives and integrated intelligence. Its digital piecing unit is capable of performing up to 24 piecing processes simultaneously. As a result, the machine’s run-up time is also reduced by at least 30 per cent. The Autoairo’s compact, double-sided design means that it takes up 40 per cent less space than single-sided machines. These features give the Autoairo a powerful productivity advantage, while at the same time lowering spinning costs.

This innovation significantly increases efficiency. It is fully automated with autonomous, intelligent spinning positions, revolutionising air spinning. With Autoairo, spinning mills can produce high-quality yarn more quickly, more cost-efficiently and more flexibly.

With more than 160 years’ experience, Saurer has always been committed to advancing the textile industry, integrating high-end equipment manufacturing with modern information technology to provide complete solutions for the smart spinning factory.

Prada’s fall/winter line Linea Rossa has a strong military theme.

There are lots of khaki and battleship grey officer’s raingear, parkas and hooded trenches – all finished with the signature white on red logo strip. Active sports gear has bright primary color ski pants and ski-boarder jackets. Tough chic black is a running theme in the mini hooded bolero puffers in black nylon worn over graphic anthracite leggings and chunky mountaineers sneakers. The look is protective but with plenty of panache. Everything is made in forward-thinking fabrics – from the graphene and recycled polyester padding, conductive and reactive fabrics like Tela Tecnica Pro and seamless knits that are pH-balanced for a hyperallergic effect – reducing moisture and minimizing odors.

After a hiatus of over a decade, Prada relaunched Linea Rossa last year, upgrading the collection’s scientific element and positioning its price point further up the chain.

Streamlined engineering is the new buzzword at Prada. In a novel move, Prada rolled out its latest ideas internationally with a series of presentations in boutiques and outside events in several countries. It was all about savoir-faire meeting urban and active sportswear. In Paris, Prada showed around 40 looks on mannequins inside its flagship, while in London it collaborated with Willow Smith, who staged an impromptu live performance.

Jeanologia is collaborating with international universities and bodies to develop a more efficient, sustainable and transparent textile industry by supporting a new training model that addresses the needs of digitalisation and transformation in the textile industry.

The training includes master classes, talks, sustainable finishing training, collaborations with capsule collections, talent rewarding, teaching on digital transformation strategies, on sustainable design and on circular economy, at some of its centers across the world.

The schools with which Jeanologia is collaborating includes the Parsons Art and Design School, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Ravensbourne University in London, Fashion Design School in Singapore, National Textile University in Pakistan, I-Skool Denim and Jeans School in Amsterdam .

Jeanologia started up The School in 2013. This training grant provides designers with an opportunity to acquire all of the skills and knowledge necessary in design for textile laser, textile production techniques, sustainable design and denim product development.

The company provides a complete range of services to its clients since the selected students have four months of advanced training and after that, they have the possibility to be hired by these clients and work at their production centres around the five continents.

Increase in health awareness is shifting the focus of Indian consumers toward sportswear.

The Indian sports apparel market is segmented based on end user and mode of sale. By end user, the market is categorised into men, women, and children. On the basis of mode of sale, it is segregated into retail stores, super markets, brand outlets, discount stores, and online stores.

Sports apparel includes tracksuits, gym suits, yoga wear, swim wear, and tights. Such clothing has advantages like prolonged durability, improved range of motion, breathability of material, and superior comfort. They avert ligament injuries and physical strain on muscles and enhance performance. Endorsements of sportswear by celebrities influence the growth of the market. Additionally, Indian icons who consider themselves as fitness conscious promote apparel brands, which acts as a major driving factor of the sportswear segment, thereby contributing in expanding the customer base. The Indian sportswear industry is benefiting from the increasingly organized modern retail, consisting of a planned approach to distribution and logistics management, targeting urban as well as smaller developing towns. This is viewed as an opportunity by sportswear manufacturers. However, the counterfeit trade in sportswear is restraining the growth of the market.

Major players in the Indian sports apparel market include Adidas, Nike, Puma and Fila.

The Ministry of Industry of Mynamar plans to set up special zones for textiles and garments in the Yangon and Mandalay regions. The ministry will collaborate with the private sector to implement these pilot projects for industry complexes and clusters.

The Ministry also plans to launch a national level textile policy with the help of German global development organisation GIZ to develop the country’s textile industry, boost investment by inviting foreign trade partners, set up the necessary infrastructure and reduce imports.

The proposed national textile policy is part of the National Export Strategy (NES) which the commerce ministry is implementing with 11 sectors.

Gildan Yarns, based in the US, is investing in a new yarn spinning facility.

This will be the company’s seventh yarn spinning facility in the US. Gildan Yarns is the yarn spinning division of Gildan, a leading apparel manufacturer headquartered in Canada.

Gildan makes most of its garments offshore, with close to 90 per cent of its 42,000 employees in low-cost Caribbean and Central American countries. It has yarn spinning and distribution centers in cheaper parts of the United States, including North Carolina and Georgia. This new location will be the company’s fifth state-of-the-art yarn spinning mill in North Carolina. Eden is also home to Gildan’s first large scale distribution center. North Carolina has more textile manufacturers than any other state and a world-class pipeline of textile talent to continue Gildan’s global operations.

Gildan has partnered with Sans Soucie. The partnership is part of Gildan’s mission to save fabric waste from landfills—89 per cent of which is already upcycled into other products. Gildan’s new partnership follows its recent environmental commitments. Vancouver-based Sans Soucie Textile and Design is a zero-waste clothing and textile design studio that transforms off cuts from nylon for hosiery into new handmade materials for garment production.

Sportswear giant Adidas has launched a new sustainable initiative that rewards customers with coupons in exchange for their old clothes.

The sportswear company has launched this initiative for members of its loyalty club in the United Kingdom. The proposal encourages customers to deliver their used clothing in exchange for a coupon. The company implements this initiative in collaboration with the Stuffstr startup, which, once the customers’ clothes have been collected, is in charge of repairing it, selling it again or reusing it for the production of new clothes. It has already launched a sustainable collection this year in collaboration with Stella McCartney, called Futurecraft.loop.

The clothing return method is applied to those garments with a value starting from 20 pounds or higher through the Creator’s Club app, which will reward customers with coupons. Stuffstr will be dedicated to offering a free collection service for those products that want to be returned and will manage their resale possibilities.

Adidas launched a similar concept in Brazil, in 2012, and in Canada, in 2016, and plans to expand the initiative to other countries next year. Along the same lines, Burberry and The RealReal, the luxury goods shipping market, have recently announced similar bets for circular economy.