28th October 2021, Mumbai:

The new collection from Madame comprises a range of sweatshirts and graphic T-shirts for women of all age groups and is an ode to the fun-filled universe of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner, Sylvester the Cat, and many more characters.

The collection is designed keeping in mind a wide variety of color palettes including Arctic Blue, Italian Clay, French Navy, Lilac, and Sage Flower.

Various retro trends are making a comeback and Madame’s collection helps in creating an easy everyday look that is not just trendy but also connects with the vibe of modern consumers. Madame plans to focus on building franchises across India.

Launched in 1993, Gurugram-based Madame, is a brand for women. Currently, it has over 150 exclusive brand outlets across the country and a presence in 600 multi-brand stores. It also retails online on e-commerce platforms including Myntra and Amazon.

Madame retails western wear and accessories including handbags, footwear, sunglasses, jewelry, and accessories. The brand sells around 11 lakh garments annually. The plan is to continue expansion by focusing on the franchise route. The focus will be on outsourcing much of Madame’s fashion line, though own factories. The growth of own online store will also be a strong focus over the next two years.

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22nd October 2021, Mumbai:

Kankatala Sarees, a South Indian ethnic apparel business, has expanded its retail footprint by launching its first store in New Delhi, the nation's capital.

Handloom sarees from more than 50 main weaving clusters across India will be available at the store. Karisma Kapoor, a Bollywood actress, opened the business.

"From the tiny alleys of Vizag to the Capital of India, the 78-year trip has been amazing," Mallikharjuna Rao Kankatala, chairman and managing director of Kankatala, said in a statement.

We are delighted to announce the opening of our 13th exclusive retail shop in Delhi. We'd like to get the same amount of affection from the people of Delhi as we have from the rest of the country."

"It is a joy for me to open the very first store in North India of a company with a 78-year-old heritage,"

Karisma Kapoor remarked. I was astounded to learn that, since 1943, each Handloom saree has been painstakingly chosen by a Kankatala family member.

I was astounded by the variety of handloom sarees I saw here." With 12 retail branches in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the brand has a strong presence in southern India.

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20th October 2021, Mumbai:

19th October 2021, Mumbai: Led by a surge in e-commerce sales, Poddar’s brand FabAlley has witnessed huge growth. The brand expects e-commerce sales to grow by 100-120 percent year-on-year in the current quarter, reveals Poddar. Most of this growth will be led by FabAlley’s ethnic wear brand Indya.

FabAlley has also collaborated with PayalSinghal, a leading Indian designer, to launch affordable collections. In addition, the brand also launched a partnership with actress ShraddhaKapoor, and also successfully launched a mini-collection.

The brand is currently at 480 points of sale and plans to take that number up to 600+ by March 2022. By December 2022, it intends to be at 800-900 points of sale. It plans to close the current year at a GMV of about Rs 300 crore and grow at 70-90 percent next year.

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22nd October 2021, Mumbai:

Baltimore-headquartered sportswear brand Under Armour has opened its fourth Mumbai store inside the Jio World Drive Mall.

The new store will feature the range of its athletic merchandise such as HOVR Phantom running shoes, mineral-infused apparel line, and Project Rock collection among others.

The new store is also in line with the brand’s retail strategy of opening stores on the ground floor of premium malls for greater and faster visibility among customers.

The sportswear brand currently has 23 stores in 16 cities across the country. It is an American sports equipment company that manufactures footwear, sports, and casual apparel.

Under Armour's global headquarters are located in Baltimore, Maryland, with additional offices located in Amsterdam, Austin, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Munich, New York City, Panama City, Paris, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, São Paulo, Santiago, Seoul, Shanghai, and Toronto.

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20 October 2021, Mumbai:

A social enterprise for fashion innovation, Fashion for Good holds an exhibition based on different challenges of the industry and innovators every year. This year, the exhibition had three participants from India; Deven Supercriticals, Chlorohemp Agrotech and Graviky Labs.

Waterless dyeing for a long-lasting effect

DevenSupercriticals has introduced a new way to dye textiles without using water. The company reuses carbon dioxides for textile dyeing. It infuses these dyes into the fabric as against coating it on as in traditional methods. This improves the quality of textiles and gives sharper, brighter and long lasting colors, says DrSwapneshu Baser, Founder, DevenSupercriticals.

Supercritical fluids can also be used to extract fiber by crushing plastic bottles. This partly solves the problem of solid waste by recycling bottles. However, if manufacturers first make the fiber, create the fabric and then use this waterless technology for dyeing, it becomes end-to-end green technology, adds Baser.

Commercializing the Indian industrial hemp value chain

Startup Chlorohemp Agrotech aims to commercialize the industrial hemp value chain in India. It aims to develop large-scale integrated hemp processing units in the country, reveals Raghavendra Singh, Co-founder. Fabric made of hemp is anti-bacterial, strong and breathable, making it suitable for both summer and winter. A few communities in the Himalayan regions are already using hemp fiber to make ropes, gunny bags, etc and the like, adds Singh.

Making carbon dioxide a usable commodity

Based out of Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh, Chlorohemp works with local farmers to extract hemp fibre. It also works on developing an effective research data base on Indian hemp varieties.

Graviky Labs specializes in creating ink out of carbon emissions

The company captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turns it into useful materials. This carbon dioxide is further transformed to various materials. The company uses a ‘Co2 interceptor’ that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Not only does it reduce the pollution in the atmosphere, makes the captured carbon dioxide a usable commodity to make new materials, says Anirudh Sharma, Founder.

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21st October 2021, Mumbai:

Due to a lack of money, the majority of clothing exporters have requested the government to clear the outstanding RoSCTL amount.

In a letter to M. Ajit Kumar, Chairman, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), Raja M. Shanmugham, President, Tirupur Exporters' Association (TEA), requested him to clear the fund on an urgent basis.

"Despite the weekly timetable for clearing each month's pending RoSCTL amount," Raja stated, "the pending amount has not been credited till today."

He went on to say that the Tirupur knitwear garment export sector, which employs 95 percent of MSMEs, is facing a liquidity crisis as a result of a number of negative factors, including the second wave of COVID-19's impact, and the units' obligation to pay bonus payments to workers for the upcoming Diwali festival.

Given the exporting units' crisis position, we respectfully urge that you intervene and arrange for the outstanding RoSCTL amount to be cleared as soon as possible so that the exporting units may pay their workers' bonuses and meet their financial obligations.

If we receive the return on a priority basis, it will assist the exporting units in overcoming their financial problem and pursuing unit expansion.

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19th October 2021, Mumbai:

United Colors of Benetton, a global fashion company, has shown an interest in increasing garment sourcing from Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has asked the firm to work with its Bangladeshi suppliers to help them expand their capabilities in producing high-demand clothing.

BGMEA president Faruque Hassan recently remarked that the country's RMG industry has expanded its attention on product diversification, particularly non-cotton and high-end segments, during a meeting with Benetton Asia Pacific Limited's head of operations Monica Joshi.

Hassan promised Benetton that the BGMEA will provide "unwavering assistance" in expanding the association's supplier base and sourcing volume in Bangladesh, according to a press release.

The BGMEA president also said that rising yarn, chemical, and other raw material prices in the global supply chain had driven up garment manufacturing production costs. In this context, he emphasised the importance of fair pricing and greater empathy for supply chain partners in order to ensure the supply chain's long-term viability.

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 23rd October 2021, Mumbai:

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan is set to make his foray into the fashion world with the brand ‘House of Khaddar.’ The label aims at putting Indian handwoven fabrics and clothing on the global map and will launch its debut fall edit 2021 designed by Amritha Ram.

Ram has been a constant when it comes to styling Haasan and has styled his looks in many films including his Bigg Boss Tamil 5 looks.

The new initiative aims at putting Indian hand-woven material and clothing on the global map, and Kamal will launch the first collection, the Fall-winter 2021 line, in Chicago this November. The series of clothing is designed by Amritha Ram.

Meanwhile, “House Of Khaddar” launched its official Instagram account and garnered 10,000 followers in no time. It uploaded a number of posts captured during the finals of Bigg Boss season four.

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21st October 2021, Mumbai:

Ganesha Ecosphere, located in Kanpur, has partnered with Applied DNA Sciences (ADNAS), a traceability solutions provider, to use its polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based DNA synthesis and nucleic acid-based technologies.

Ganesha Ecosphere is India's largest recycled polyester (rPET) producer, with over 300 clients, 250 suppliers, and 500 product variations. Ganesha will use ADNAS' molecular tagging systems to trace the lifespan of its materials as they move through supply networks, in response to rising consumer demand for recycled fiber.

"Traceability has now brought greater authenticity and legitimacy to the whole textile supply chain and is becoming an important component of the recycling process," B.P. Sultania, Joint President of Ganesha Ecosphere, said of the deal.

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. is a pioneer in DNA production and nucleic acid-based technologies using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Ganesha will use Applied DNA's traceability technology, the CertainT® platform, to tag an initial pilot production of rPET in Ganesha's facilities in India and undertake confirmatory samples testing at Applied DNA's laboratories in India and the United States.

The partnership between the two businesses will give brands and textile producers a reliable solution to help them achieve their rPET sustainability objectives and ensure the authenticity of raw materials at every step of the textile value chain.

Ganesha will be allowed to introduce and use CertainT-verified rPET to give raw material assurance to textile and garment clients under the terms of the agreement. Ganesha will also use Applied DNA's recently released SigNature® T-100 tracer technology, which allows the CertainT platform to quantify rPET source material in polyester blends.

The SigNature T-100 is a proprietary molecular-based tracer system that can be used to identify, analyse, and verify rPET, polypropylene, acrylic, and possibly other manmade materials for claims of both identification and quantification of the raw material tagged and spun into yarn for various textile products.

Under the leadership and vision of Chairman Shri Shyam Sunder Sharmma, Ganesha has pioneered the manufacture of rPET fiber and rPET yarn from post-consumer PET bottle trash since starting the rPET industry in 1994.

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18th October 2021, Mumbai:

Sales of kids’ apparel on the e-commerce platform Snapdeal have grown by 493 percent from January to July this year.

The category has emerged as one of the biggest gainers amongst other categories on the platform. Its share in the overall fashion category sales has also increased in the same period.

With more kids’ fashion being bought online, shopping trends on Snapdeal indicated consumer preferences for deals that offered more value. The popular price points on Snapdeal include Rs 400-600 for combo pack offerings, followed by the second best-selling range of Rs 200-400 for individual items.

Track pants saw the highest increase this year with units sold growing 17X since January 2021. T-Shirts with 8X growth and top and bottom sets with 11X growth have been the other strong performers in the same time period.

While a large percentage of the demand continues to come from southern markets and there has also been a steady increase in demand from cities in North and West India.

Snapdeal has expanded the choice available in the kids' apparel by adding popular brands like Luke and Lilly, Hopscotch, Gini and Jony, Cherokee, Donuts, Colt, Hellcat, Kyda, Aarika, Naughty Ninos, and more. Ahead of the festive season, Snapdeal has also expanded the selection of ethnic fashion for kids.

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