Sustainable Fashion – the Time Is Now

There was a strong focus on potential solutions at the ASBCI conference Time for change – facing up for fashion’s sustainability and ethics challenges, which took place on 8 May in Manchester. Expert speakers...

Fashion Transparency Index 2019: Fashion Revolution’s Educational Tools for Change

Whilst Fashion Revolution gathers momentum by educating and encouraging consumers to ask #whomademyclothes?, behind the scenes, Director of Policy Sarah Ditty and her team work on rating some of the world’s biggest fashion brands...

We Want Quant at the Victoria & Albert Museum – Celebrating a Fashion Legacy

The important exhibition, Mary Quant, sponsored by Kings Road and curated by Jenny Lister, at London’s V&A Museum runs until 16 February 2020. It looks to rectify a gap in recognition of one of...

SPINEXPO Shanghai: Show Summary

SPINEXPO Shanghai was held at the World Expo Centre in Pudong, Shanghai, from 5-7 March 2019. The Spring/Summer 2020 edition presented the collections of 183 exhibitors, including 19 knitwear manufacturers. The show welcomed 11,371 visitors and 3,369...

Iluna’s Innovations Selected for ‘Sustainable Thinking’ Exhibition

Iluna Group, a leading European producer of lingerie, lace, beachwear and bridal products, has been selected among the protagonists of the Sustainable Thinking exhibition at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, for its value in the...

‘Sustainable Thinking’ Exhibition Hosts Tintex Solutions

At Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, fashion meets art, and materials tell the story of sustainability as part of the Sustainable Thinking exhibition, which will take place from 12 April 2019 to 8 March 2020. Tintex...
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Book Review: Fashion Knitwear Design

Celebrating the need for knitwear designers to be both fashion and textile creators, Fashion Knitwear Design encourages the understanding of the technicalities of knitting by offering a thorough overview of the complexities and heritage...

Shima’s Student Competition Selects Two Winners

This year’s Student Apex Competition for students based at UK Universities, organised by leading computerised flat knitting machinery manufacturer Shima Seiki Europe, awards two winners with a visit to the company’s head office in...

Love, Ecology and Fashion: Filati Be.Mi.Va’s SS20 Sustainable Presentation

Since 1960, Filati Be.Mi.Va has presented yarns both technical and fancy to the industry. Sourcing raw materials from around the globe and creating its yarns in Italy, Be.Mi.Va’s ethos values its tradition as an...

Manufacturing for the Future

Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) connects fashion designers with technology and manufacturing businesses at a day-long trade show on 3 April followed by CFE’s 14th FashTech meet-up. Taking place at LSO St Lukes in Old...