The recently released Nasscom report distinctly stated that the bricks-and-mortar plus e-commerce model will help generate retail exports worth US $ 125 billion, in addition to US $ 8 billion in incremental GST contribution in the next decade.

The supply chain disruptions in the global apparel trade last year were related to lockdowns, order cancellations, production delays and logistic uncertainties while this year, the challenges have taken a turn towards increasing congestion at ports, rising cost of raw materials, rising cost of transportation and shortage of workers in the supply chain.

October 2021 saw 32-year-old Deepit Chugh from Mumbai, and 28-year-old Twinkle Hanspal from New Delhi, bag the prestigious title of INIFD presents GenNext designers, who were selected via a virtual jury selection process. Let’s get to know this year’s winners better and what exactly made them stand out from amongst a pool of abled contestants.

In India, where IT sector has set one of the finest examples of the way it takes care of its women employees, the apparel manufacturing industry is just following the law of the land for its women workers. Apparel Resources explores deeply the facilities that are being offered to the women workers in major apparel manufacturing hubs such as India, Bangladesh and Vietnam.

Team Apparel Resources had an exclusive interaction with Ugur Yekta Basak, one of the Co-Founders of ART Labs and, in this freewheeling interaction, Ugur touched upon some key points to talk about how things are shaping in the fashion tech industry.

At the recently concluded Magic and Project trade shows held in Las Vegas, a number of trends for the upcoming season of Spring 2022 proliferated across the showroom floor, regardless of the news bulletin headlines. With limited insight into what shoppers' lives will look like six months from now, fashion players offered up a number of themes going in divergent directions.

Maheen Khan, the Founder President – Fashion Design Council of Bangladesh and Founder & Designer of Studio Mayasir – in an exclusive chat reveals how she is taking one step at a time to make a mark with slow fashion, globally. In her path to embrace the ideology of slow fashion, she is working with unique Bangladeshi clusters and bringing up artisans to represent Bangladesh in the global map.