India

The urge to gift an enduring piece of Punjab’s legacy, and the lack of it, led to the setting up of Aab Label, a contemporary brand that draws inspiration from the hand-embroidered heritage craft of phulkari. Founder Shreya Mehra shares her story.

Polyester is not going away from India any time soon, especially in the context of it being the fibre that is seen as the one answer that the country has to overtake China in the textiles-apparel business. This was reinforced when Reliance Industries Limited, the country’s biggest textiles player, announced the company plans to invest ₹750 billion (roughly $9.41) in its oil-to-chemical (O2C) business over the next five years to expand capacities in polyester and vinyl verticals. A texfash.com analysis.

Myntra has joined hands with Fairtrade, and will add a "sustainable" clothing line, made out of responsibly sourced cotton from the Fairtrade-certified supply chain. The line will be part of its casualwear brand Here & Now.

Indian market regulator SEBI has suspended trading in cotton futures on MCX for a month. The trading will remain suspended to revise contract specifications in consultations with various stakeholders and also allow wider value-chain participation.

Apparel retail in India is in for a boost with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs exempting readymade garments sold in loose form from the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules.

BD Nathani, who always dreamt of travelling the world began by selling a cough syrup, and ironically was felled by the dastardly COVID-19. He had recapitualted his journey in his debut book My Journey Through Lala Land.  A texfash.com tribute through extracts from Chapter 7 of the book.

The Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has gone to court on two accounts of different entities trying to hitch on the khadi bandwagon.

An entrepreneur-driven industry, the apparel kidswear sector in India is forecast to grow at 14.5% CAGR during 2021–26. And making a play for it is a 100% boot-strapped mobile app-based B2B aggregator platform—KidCity—as it onboards retailers, manufacturers and some other critical cogs in this ecosystem. Could it emerge as a catalyst to change the status quo of the last five decades or more? Tech-enabled, will it work like a magic wand to resolve the inherent structural problems? texfash.com explores.

From pre-pandemic exports a little under 2% of its total revenues to gunning for a 15-20% growth this fiscal, the Ahmedabad-based Chiripal Group, is on an expansion drive as it looks to augment its overall denim capacity to 240 MMPA.

Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister of Textiles, Commerce & Industry, will address the ‘Sustainable Clothing and Textile Recycling Conference’, an exclusive B2B event, to be held in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, on 10 August.