Interview

Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) is one of the leading organisations working on sustainability in fashion. María Luisa Martínez Díez, Public Affairs Director at GFA, speaks to texfash.com about how GFA sees the just-announced EU Textiles Strategy from a global standpoint.

In the coldest of climes the best insulation comes from down—the underside plumage of geese and ducks. A tightknit family based out of Vernon in the United States that has been in this business for over three decades, conscious of sourcing with responsibility and processing sustainably too, Allied Feather + Down has promised to debut its carbon neutral down insulation by Fall 2023. With its first sustainability report on the anvil, Creative Director Matthew Betcher shares with texfash.com the steps it has been taking to reduce its carbon footprint.

Impetus Portugal - Texteis SA is one of the leading manufacturers, suppliers and producers of a wide range of apparel in Portugal. Ricardo Figueiredo, Administrator at Impetus Group, talks about the ways in which the Group has been trying to emerge out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The only true way to guarantee traceability and transparency is by connecting the physical traced fibre with the digital (blockchain). And, it is being done!

His unique aesthetic has made waves beyond home shores. Globally-acclaimed fashion critics have called him a “national treasure”—a designer who has been instrumental in “successfully highlighting the best and most peculiar features of his homeland.” I am talking about none other than the Malhausi boy Rahul Mishra, the first Indian fashion designer to be invited to showcase at the Paris Haute Couture Week in January 2020. His eponymous label works on the philosophy of the three Es—environment...

A choker that opens up as a mask, a shield-like social distancing (SD) jacket with pockets that sanitise, a face visor that can collapse and fit into your glares’ case, a UV hanger that will make your clothes safe when you return indoors and lots more in the pipeline. NIFT graduate and co-founder-Craft Village as also a former faculty member at NID, Somesh Singh is on a roll as he spends much of his waking hours researching, designing and prototyping fashionable yet functional gears for a still...

Chances are that as you read thisopening sentence, the t-shirt, dress or shirt brand you are wearing could havebeen designed and manufactured at one of the worldwide units of high-streetsupplier, and manufacturing and sourcing firm PDS Multinational. Spearheaded bythe young and dynamic Pallak Seth (vice-chairman and founder), the HongKong-headquartered $1billion (FY 17-18) group designs and supplies apparel,among other fashion categories, to many of the world's leading brands andretailers. But...

When he was a child, he did not know from where he would get his first and only meal ofthe day. He lost his father at the tender age of seven. The struggles continuedand after almost 18 years of working as a CAD designer he gave in to a daringthought gnawing his mind - design a machine that could control the fabric bothin reverse and forward while doing the embroidery and with the same tension. Heapproached some Swiss companies. But there was no response. China told him thatwhat he had in mind...

Giovanna Furlanetto is the president of Furla, one of the major players in the world leather goods market, toting an annual turnover of more than €200 million. In the 1970s, along with her brothers Carlo and Paolo, she took over from her father Aldo who founded the company in 1927. Together they began to produce a Furla brand collection, pursuing a focused expansion plan for the firm’s distribution network, that today counts 328 single-brand boutiques in 91 countries and a distribution network...

From studying hotel management to leather, how did this dramatic transition happen? When I entered this business I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do. Thankfully, through several unsuccessful experiences and great mentors, I discovered an interest in leather and international trade. I learnt the ropes at two tanneries and joined the Netherlands-based Van Hoorn Trading. When I started looking after their India operations I had no finance but gradually got into an open contract. Senate...