As per World Bank's latest report "global recession this year will be deeper than it predicted in March and warned that a flight of capital from developing nations will swell the ranks of the poor and the unemployed. The world economy will contract 2.9 percent, compared with a previous forecast of a 1.7 percent decline". All the world's major apparel manufacturing and exporting countries belong to this category of...

A double-digit decline in apparel exports from India during May, following 9.5 per cent fall in April this year may have dismayed the apparel exporters, but it did fail to evoke a response from a non-responsive Finance Minister, despite most sincere efforts made by Apparel Export Promotion Council and other trade bodies...

Global, apparel market place is now going through a paradigm shift moving towards increased product differentiation, and customers becoming more diverse, and demanding. What are the changing attitudes of apparel shoppers? What are the emerging retail trends?...

Mary Quant ran a popular clothes shop in the Kings Road, Chelsea, London called Bazaar, from which she sold her own designs. In the late 1950s she began experimenting with shorter skirts, which resulted in the miniskirt in 1965-one of the defining fashions of the decade...

The world is now witnessing a rapid transformation, the evolution of apparel and retail industry towards sustainability; which is a broader term than anyone can really contemplate. Sustainable clothing is quite a vague term to explain....

History of textiles in India dates back to 3000 B.C. The diversity of fibers available in India and the state of the art looms, and organic dyes have always attracted buyers from all over the world. India is perceived as a country with the biggest growth potential after China with an estimated growth of 7% per annum...