Sourcing

The three-day Première Vision Paris gets under way in the fashion capital of the world on 4 July in a redesigned format with the spotlight on the changing imperatives of an industry in flux.

Strategic sourcing is an iterative process, requiring ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation to ensure optimal supplier selection and value realisation for an enterprise. A step-by-step guide on how to go about sourcing strategically.

Spearheading the promotion of the textiles & fashion industry of Colombia is ProColombia, under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism. The organisation's expansive mandate includes boosting international tourism, foreign investments and non-traditional exports. Carmen Caballero, ProColombia's President, tells texfash.com how the country is working to ramp up its textiles & fashion industry.

As the demand for near-shoring slowly gathers steam both for reasons of political compulsions and logistics issues, there is one country that is ready to make the best of it: Colombia. The country is both steeped in traditional textiles and is just as modern in its approach to environmental issues. But, can Colombia live up to the promise that the future holds? The first of a three-part WireFrame series from texfash.com.

Can market forces help prevent tragedies such as Rana Plaza? Not really, say Professors Vinod Singhal and Brian Jacobs as they explain that in terms of sourcing strategy, most firms are going to continue to search for the lowest costs even as the larger idea of responsible sourcing has gained traction following an increase in activists and watchdogs as also the ubiquity of 24/7 news and social media.  

Inspiring new products, innovative content and future-oriented themes is what Munich Fabric Start promises, even in these times of uncertainty. Frank Junker, Creative Director & Partner, Munich Fabric Start Exhibitions GmbH elaborates in this one-on-one with texfash.com.

It's show time. It's the curtain-raiser for Spring-Summer ‘24. And it's the three-day international fabric trade show: Munich Fabric Start (MFS), beginning 24 January. It's the right occasion, the right time, the right place. A texfash.com preview. 

Fabric trade show Munich Fabric Start (MFS) is initiating a combined area for sustainability and digitalisation in the centre of the show in January 2023. The aim is to bring the two megatrends even more centrally into the trade fair. The Bluezone is already fully booked.

Even as the business of textiles-fashion has seen a hit in post-COVID China, raging intermittently now too, what is surprising is the continuing rise in its total basket of exports. texfash.com reports.

With focus largely on emissions and net-zero, a critical area facing a bigger risk perhaps relates to water — flood risks and fast-depleting water quality, according to a WWF study. And, the warning is grimmer for clusters in India and Pakistan.