Torstai, a Finnish clothing brand has become the world’s first sports clothing brand to take part in the Fairtrade Cotton Programme.

Torstai, a Finnish clothing brand has become the world’s first sports clothing brand to take part in the Fairtrade Cotton Programme.

The largest international trade fair in the world, China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), will open in Guangzhou from October 31 to November 4, 2016.

Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC), India’s largest quality vocational training provider for the apparel sector recently conducted an ‘Interactive Session for Apparel Manufacturing Organisations, Entrepreneurs (Boutiques) & Apparel & Fashion Institutes at its Chandigarh centre.

Tamil Nadu Government has offered to bear 50 per cent of the total cost for creating infrastructure facilities such as laying of roads, sewage treatment plant, captive power plant and telecommunications, if industry comes forward to establish Mini Textile Parks.

Europe’s first fashion social commerce platform, Trendy (www.trendy.guru) has been launched.

An innovative bioactive textiles enabled with healing capacities and intended for dermatological patients has been developed in Poland.

The Fair Wear Foundation has published a 56-page report ‘Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) India Country Study 2016’, which states that there is no child labour in the garment industry of the country now as compared to what was in 2000.

A robot, christened Sewbo, has been developed in the US which can make complete garments.