Lectra enters into MOE to acquire Gerber Technology
Lectra has announced it plans to acquire the entire capital and voting rights of US-based rival Gerber Technology. A key Industry 4.0 player in the fashion, automotive and furniture industries, Lectra designs smart industrial...
Lectra partners with Microsoft to boost digital transformation in fashion
Lectra has announced a partnership with Microsoft, which it says will help brands and retailers in the fashion industry focus on both technological innovation and digital acceleration. The commercial and technological partnership between the...
Americhem releases 2022 Color Trends
Americhem, a globally recognized designer and manufacturer of custom colour masterbatch, functional additives, engineered compounds, and performance technologies, has released their 2022 Color Trends.
This year’s colour trend palette is based on a theme of...
Seaweed science points way for sustainable textiles and fashion
Huddersfield, UK
An enterprising Huddersfield student is making innovative use of seaweed to make sustainability integral to her first steps in the world of textiles and fashion brand marketing.
Anna Watkins has built upon the experience...
London Fashion Week goes digital
Following the UK Prime Minister's announcement on Monday 4 January 2021 and the return of lockdown measures in the UK, the British Fashion Council (BFC) has been specifically discussing with Government the appropriate way...
TechNovus launches AI powered body measurement platform
TechNovus Ltd, a UK-based artificial intelligence and virtual reality company, has launched an Artificial Intelligence-powered body measurement platform, Mezura AI which lets customers instantly match their body measurements with desired clothing items as they...
H&M’S latest kidswear collection transforms plastic waste into everyday fashion
H&M has joined forces with Danone AQUA for the bottle2fashion project, which transforms plastic bottle waste from the shores of Indonesia into recycled polyester. This season bottle2fashion will collect and recycle around 3.5 million...
Cashmere Circle aims to revive repair and recycle cashmere garments
A leading Scottish knitwear entrepreneur has joined forces with a University of Edinburgh graduate to launch Cashmere Circle, a service to revive, repair and recycle cashmere garments. Belinda Dickson, founder of Belinda Robertson Cashmere,...
Call for action on textile wet processing
A new report from the financial think tank Planet Tracker investigates the magnitude of the financial and environmental impact of wet processing on the fashion industry and its investors, and the ways in which...
Performance Days: Closed loop functional fabrics still some way off
Functional fabrics fair Performance Days took place digitally on the 9th and 10th of December to showcase new developments for autumn/ winter 22/23. Following on from previous seasons, the trend for natural and renewable...



















