04 March 2022, Mumbai:

On February 9-11, Istanbul Fashion Connection was launched successfully as the matching platform for supply and demand in Turkey.

More than 25,000 visitors from about 100 countries attended the kick-off event at Istanbul Expo Center where over 600 companies presented their collections.

Turkey is seeing an unbroken trend of increasing textile exports to the EU with a record figure of US$ 20.3 billion reached in 2021. A development has been accelerated by the pandemic.

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Turkish fashion made it possible to bridge bottlenecks, near-shoring is now a competitive advantage.

The collections of all fashion segments including womenswear, menswear, kidswear, denim, shoes, leather and fur, lingerie, hosiery, bridal, and evening wear were presented in eight halls of the exhibition center.

Exhibitors and visitors were extremely satisfied with the premiere and delighted with the opportunity of an in-person industry meeting. The next edition will take place from August 24-26, 2022.

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02 March 2022, Mumbai:

ABOUT Avanti Nagrath

She came to the spotlight way back in 2019, while she performed during the FDCI organised Fashion Week in the national capital, taking everybody by surprise while she was walking the ramp for the designer duo Pankaj & Nidhi.

No surprises as soon she started getting a big favour from byfar all the leading designers in the country.

So here she goes, Avanti Nagrath is been seen scorching the international runway. This break gives her the distinction of becoming the maiden Indian model to have got an opportunity & honour to open the Versace show at Milan Fashion Week, Italy.

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*The model who opens the show is usually the one who leads the lineup, and for Avanti to do it in the same show where supermodels including Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski also walked the ramp is huge.

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*CREDITS: TOI.

04 March 2022, Mumbai:

Welcome to the world of smart fabrics pioneered by R/Flan-Fabric 2.0 Apparel made with RElan smart fabrics provide the wearer with benetits that bring in additional value.

RElan fabrics are grouped into three segments

- Eco friendly fabrics

- Hi-performance fabrics

- Aesthetically superior fabrics

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RElan has been working with reputed fashion designers and established brands to develop unique apparel range with its advanced fabrics.

This LookBook showcases an exciting and fresh collection designed by renowned designers Abraham-Thakore, highlighting the power of its eco-friendly fabric RFlan GreenGold.

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02 March 2022, Mumbai:

*At the Giorgio Armani show yesterday, which closed out Milan Fashion Week, the 87-year-old designer sent his collection down the runway to uncomfortable silence.

Over the loudspeaker, a voice explained that his decision not to use any music in the show was made as a “sign of respect to people in the unfolding tragedy.” Despite the curious omission of the words “Russia” or “Ukraine,” the message was clear enough.

The models, in quietly luxurious Armani classics including trim velvet jackets and a long-sleeved spangled gown, clicked down the glossy runway without the typical pounding soundtrack—just the occasional shuffle of cameras and high heels.

The somber move represented a rare synchronization of the gravity of world events with the giddy fashion-week carnival. It also harkened back to February 2020, when Mr. Armani was one of the first designers to acknowledge the burgeoning pandemic by disinviting guests to his show, which unfolded in an empty theater.

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As one of the undisputed elder statesmen of fashion, he knows that in an industry that’s all about image, symbolism matters. Omitting music from a fashion show could be seen as a hollow gesture or a respectful one, or maybe a little of both.

During the preceding days, talk of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was limited to the back seats of black cars and the crammed benches of fashion shows (with Covid spacing mostly a relic of last season).

The disconnect between fashion and the “real world,” always a heated topic, felt particularly extreme on Thursday, when the invasion escalated and brands including Prada staged their fashion shows to audiences of editors and celebrities.

A few war protestors brought their signs (“Close the Sky,” “Stop Putin”) and Ukrainian flags to the crowds outside the fashion shows, but for the most part, they marched just meters away at gatherings throughout central Milan. Of course, for those with ties to the region, business as usual was unthinkable.

The two Ukrainian models who walked in the Prada show, Kristy Ponomar and Irina Kravchenko, have used their Instagram platforms to rally their thousands of followers around their country’s plight.

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*CREDITS: wsj.com

01 March 2022, Mumbai:

Thanks to premium brand partnerships, the Japanese manufacturer’s fiber Bemberg™ is ready to tell its nine decades' story of conscious and technological innovation.

For the very first time Bemberg™ by Asahi Kasei takes part in White Sustainable Milano, the first fashion trade show entirely dedicated to the research and focus on new materials and technologies able to lead to a real ecological transition, developed in collaboration with Giusy Bettoni, CEO and founder C.L.A.S.S., and Marco Poli, Founder of The Style Lift.

Its aim is quite simple, yet extremely important to meet the downstream part of the supply chain, the one attending fashion weeks, in order to share with them how intriguing, fascinating, and valuable the world of responsible, innovative textiles can be. In fact, Bemberg™ is a one-of-a-kind product that combines the advantages of natural fibers with the functions of synthetics.

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It is a gem of unparalleled comfort, accentuating the true beauty of the wearer. Bemberg™ is manufactured starting from the cotton linter, a pre-consumer material obtained from the manufacturing process of cottonseed oil.

A truly circular economy ingredient. On top of that, Bemberg™ is completely biodegradable and compostable.

The brand by Asahi Kasei has also reduced CO2 emissions through the use of renewable energies and introduced a closed-loop system to recycle resources.

And this is just the “beginning”. In the next ten years moving towards the goal of 100, Bemberg™ will keep making fashion even more unique through its smart yarns, fashion partnerships, and responsible soul. 

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BGMEA Vice President Miran Ali and Directors Asif Ashraf, Tanvir Ahmed and Abdullah Hil Rakib were also present on the occasion.

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