26 November 2021, Mumbai:

Nykd will launch a sleepwear collection designed by Masaba Gupta. The line mixes bold prints with color blocking and classic sleepwear fabrics such as satin.

Along with nature-inspired motifs, Gupta designed a custom milk carton print for the collection which features on the pajama bottoms and the button-down pajama shirts. This is wearable, quirky sleepwear having the colors and patterns not typically seen in everyday wear.

It’s a balance between being quirky and fun but is comfortable with easy fits and striking prints.

Nykd is a private label brand belonging to multi-brand fashion retailer Nykaa. This e-commerce beauty company has maintained its growth momentum.

Increased marketing spends have led to an acceleration of customer acquisition, which is also evident in the unique visitor and transacting customer metrics. Nykaa's beauty and personal care GMV (gross merchandise value) grew by 38 per cent year on year while fashion GMV grew by 215 per cent.

On the fashion side, Nykaa has launched the brand Gajra Gang in the Indian wear space. Nykd’s philosophy of giving women a high sense of comfort and freedom gets further celebrated with Masaba’s unique design aesthetic.

Gupta is known for her bright, bold, and whimsical prints which feature on everything from kurtas to jumpsuits for her brand House of Masaba.

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25 November 2021, Mumbai:

India's garment imports totaled $ 777.35 million in the first nine months of this year, up 25% year on year. According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India), woven garment imports have remained stable, increasing by just 6.75 percent in the first nine months of 2021, with imports valued at US $ 402.75 million.

Knitted clothes, on the other hand, saw a considerable gain of 53.12% on a year-over-year basis, reaching a value of US $ 374.60 million over the period.

According to the statistics analyzed by Garment Resources' data research team, China's apparel exports to India continue to shrink, particularly due to a large drop in woven textile shipments (down 56.87 percent). India purchased 183.21 million dollars worth of clothing from China, down 22.13 percent year on year.

Bangladesh was once again the leading importing destination for Indian garment purchasers, with total import value hitting the US $ 318.56 million, a year-on-year increase of 67.64 percent.

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26 November 2021, Mumbai:

Language Shoes has opened a new store in Chennai’s Express Avenue Mall. The brand has a new Language Black collection in store, which is its most premium line to date. The collection features a range of hand-painted and exotic leather products.

There are new collections for men and women, with styles like loafers, derbies, boots, sneakers, handbags, and totes.

Language Shoes is a footwear and accessories brand offering a full range of leather products. It has men’s and women’s shoes, bags, and accessories. Language ensures that only the best goes into the making of any of its products by producing most of the raw materials in-house.

Chennai has three stores. In order to ensure safe shopping during the pandemic, the store staff is all vaccinated against Covid. Social distancing and sanitisation measures are also in place throughout the stores.

Language Shoes is a luxury fashion footwear brand offering top-notch, sophisticated in-house designer brands of footwear styled and created with precision fitting, sleek and sophisticated style, and limitless comfort.

They’re equally used to trodding the boardrooms and the art galleries of the world. Stones and Bones and Superfit for children and young adults make their exclusive debut in India at Language. Talk The Walk is the concept branding behind this fabulous line of footwear. 

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26 November 2021, Mumbai:

Designer and entrepreneur Jayanti Reddy is celebrating a decade in fashion for her eponymous brand. Now she plans to expand internationally and step into menswear.

Reddy also recently collaborated with wedding designer Devika Narain to launch a series of six installations in her new store which celebrate Reddy’s diverse archive of bridal wear.

The installations feature Reddy’s take on traditional Nizami and Benarasi weaves as well as a feature for her team of artisans and ample examples of her signature purple hue. Reddy is also stepping into education through her collaboration with the online education platform The Designer’s Class.

For her first-ever class in design, Reddy will teach on building a sustainable brand, trade secrets, and the ins and outs of the industry.

The Jayanti Reddy label which opened in 2012 epitomizes an elegant and relatively understated sense of style with a strong emphasis on naturally dyed, handwoven textiles that are embellished with intricate hand embroidery. It infuses traditional clothing with a unique sense of style and understated elegance.

The brand’s formal/festive collections are characterized by a sense of craftsmanship, style and creativity.

The designer has laid strong emphasis on the use of hand-woven, naturally dyed Indian textiles and heritage weaves like Benarasi and chanderi silk, and organza, in her women’s wear collections.

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24 November 2021, Mumbai:

Apparel brands are chalking out expansion plans of their brick and mortar businesses in the third quarter. Shoppers Stop plans to grow its private-label mix.

And some 20 department stores will be opened over the next six months and 20 beauty stores over the next two years. It plans to deepen its presence in smaller towns, with small-sized stores to improve efficiency.

Similarly, Indian Terrain’s sales bounced back to pre-pandemic numbers, and aggressive retail expansion will remain a key driver for the company’s growth.

Indian Terrain, which operates 200 stores across 150 cities, aims at expanding in Tier I and II markets where many customers still prefer offline shopping over online. Since March 2021, the company has expanded its footprint nationwide with 40 stores and looks to continue the momentum.

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail (ABFRL) will continue its aggressive store expansion plans across segments, where ethnic wear and Pantaloons will see over 100 new stores annually.

Aditya Birla expects a strong and sustained recovery on the back of tailwinds from the festive season and witnessed a margin improvement on an improved share of retail and private labels, lower markdowns, and cost control measures.

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23 November 2021, Mumbai:

Pepe Jeans Innerfashion has decided to exit the 50:50 joint venture with Dollar Industries in India, by selling its stake to GOAT Brands. Accordingly, the existing JV agreement between Pepe and Dollar would stand terminated on the transfer of shares by Pepe to GOAT.

Due to the proposed stake sale by Pepe to GOAT, Dollar would be entering into a new JV agreement with GOAT.

GOAT, which stands for Greatest of All Time, is a start-up modeled on the Boston-based e-commerce start-up Thrasio which acquires small merchants and brands on leading e-commerce platforms and helps grow their business.

When Pepe Jeans entered India in 1989, the brand focused on denim and casual wear for men and women. After 16 successful years in the Indian market, Pepe Jeans decided to foray into the children’s category.

Dollar is an innerwear brand. Its ultra-premium innerwear brand Force NXT is designed as per the international fashion trend which is very new in the Indian innerwear market.

It offers value-based men’s inner wear with innovative fabrics and exceptional quality. Core customers are youth and adventurous men who love experimenting and exploring with the fashion convention. Innovation has always been its key growth driver.

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25 November 2021, Mumbai:

Muskan Soni, a graduate of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, has started the knitwear brand Khajoor with its first collection, 'Move,' which features hand-knitted clothing and accessories.

Khajoor's inaugural collection includes thick knitwear in natural tones, geometric patterns, and a modern spin on the old look.

The collection, which includes roll-neck sweaters, sweater dresses, cardigans, beanies, and crochet sets in natural lahauli wool, is meant as a collection of timeless pieces, according to Soni. The brand stated on Facebook that it is now accepting pre-orders for its debut collection via direct message on Facebook and Instagram, as well as messaging app WhatsApp.

The brand just released a little fashion video to promote its collection, which contains Sessa's music and honors the artisans who created the brand's initial outfits. Khajoor, which is called after the Hindi word for date palm tree, has been posting images of its artists on Facebook and Instagram to demonstrate their commitment to generating long-term jobs for artisans in Himachal Pradesh.

Soni told Not Just a Label about the brand, "The brand seeks to mindfully develop products that promote legacy via time-honored craft skills, materials, and craftsmen of the nation." "Being mindful of the environment in which we live, supporting the local textile industry, and empowering craftsmen while making a good influence on them and their communities are among our key beliefs."

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24 November 2021, Mumbai:

Despite the intervention of the Union Ministry of Textiles, the sector continues to be hammered by high yarn prices. Tirupur's garment makers will stage a one-day walkout on November 26 to protest the rise.

This strike is part of a broader 'action plan' to protest the rising cost of cotton yarn. According to media sources, the Tiruppur Exporters and Manufacturers' Association (TEAMA) voted to undertake a day-long strike with the backing of traders and truck owners at a meeting organized by the TEAM.

The price of yarn, which has increased by nearly Rs. 100 per kg in only a year, and the spiraling cost of raw materials were both mentioned at the conference as important challenges that have been plaguing the multi-crore business for some time.

Exporters are concerned about the price of 30s combed yarn, which has risen from Rs. 240 per kilo in November 2020 to Rs. 380 per kilo in November 2021.

"Since the price of yarn has been steadily increasing over the past one year, exporters and manufacturers in Tirupur have been complaining in one way or another," said Muthurathinam, TEAMA President, as cited by a prominent English newspaper.

In Tirupur, we have decided to organize a one-day strike during which all factories and stores would be closed. We urge governments to step in and lower the cost."

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23 November 2021, Mumbai:

Garments and footwear below Rs 1,000 will turn more expensive with GST on fabrics, apparel, and footwear being increased from existing five percent to 12 percent. The GST rate on garments and footwear above Rs 1,000 is already at 12 percent.

However, the GST rate on manmade fiber and other related raw materials has been reduced from the existing 18 to 12 percent. While the GST on cotton, cotton yarn, and weaving job work will continue at five percent, the rate on manmade fiber and yarn, all types of fabrics and garments, and processing job work will be raised to 12 percent.

Major items on which the GST rate has been increased from five percent to 12 percent include woven fabrics, sewing thread of manmade filaments, knotted netting of twine, cordage or rope—made up of fishing nets and other made up nets, of textile materials, pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted, and home textiles like blankets, bed linen, and curtains.

The objective behind the proposed increase is to correct the problem of the inverted duty structure faced by a small segment of the textile value chain.

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