TEXTILE TRENDS
Textile Trends: Tropical Garden
Swim textile designers head to the tropics to take inspiration in lush botanicals, butterfly prints and feather imagery for swimwear and coverups.—Alison A. Nieder
Textile Trends: Soft Focus
A soft focus is combined with pastel shades and soft candy colors to give florals, tie-dyes, abstracts and ikats a pretty, feminine look for coverups and swim styles. —Alison A. Nieder
Textile Trends: Going Graphic
Bold graphic prints make a high-contrast statement with intricate geometrics, painterly abstracts, polka dots and whimsical designs.
Textile Trends: Indigo
Textiles are awash in indigo shades for deep-blue knits, high-texture knits and laces, floral prints and nautical stripes.
Textile Trends: Two Faced
Two faces are better than one as textile designers offer two-faced fabrics that pair prints and solids, flat surfaces with texture and contrasting patterns.
Textile Trends: Jungle Love
Sophisticated animal prints range in style from traditional shades to saturated colors to metallic.
NEWS
Tukatech Takes Collaboration to the Cloud
Los Angeles–based apparel software and equipment solutions provider Tukatech has introduced a cloud-based Virtual Sample solution to allow apparel makers to accelerate the approval process when developing product.
NYC Textile Week’s Trade Show Partners Make Plans for a July Launch
Twice a year, textile and apparel executives travel to New York to participate in a slate of trade shows that include textile shows Texworld USA, Kingpins, Première Vision, Indigo and DG Expo; menswear shows MRket, Project New York, Liberty and Capsule; and streetwear show Agenda. And in July the schedule also includes yarn show SpinExpo.
Domestic Knitter Focuses on Efficiency and Technology
Founded in 1989, Texollini is a vertical operation producing circular knits for the activewear, contemporary, ready-to-wear, swimwear, intimates and technical markets.
L.A.–Based Britannia Sees Bright Prospects in Black Sheep
Terrence Chermak has been spending the better part of the last six months knee-deep in wool—specifically, black wool.
Novelty Textile Wins Major Case Over Fabric Design Copyright
More than one year after filing a copyright-infringement lawsuit over three different fabric designs, Novelty Textile has been awarded $650,000 in a jury verdict.
Turkish Mill Reveals Denim Trends
Isko, the Turkish denim maker, scouts the globe year-round for denim and fabric trends to help it invent and improve on 300 different new fabric offerings per year.
Lingerie Companies Fined for False Claims on Caffeine-Infused Shapewear
The Federal Trade Commission has fined two lingerie makers $1.5 million for their statements that their caffeine-infused shapewear would solve a multitude of weight and fat problems.
California Presence at Massive Intertextile Shanghai
With 15 halls covering nearly 1.8 millionsquare feet of space and more than 3,800 exhibitors showing textiles and trim from 30 countries and regions, the Oct. 20–23 run of the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics trade show could be described as massive.
Intertextile Offerings Include Expanded Denim Hall and Sustainability Zone
When the giant Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics 2014 trade show opens on Oct. 20 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, visitors will find a newly expanded Beyond Denim hall, featuring exhibitors from six countries and regions.
Designer Evolves Brand from Prints to Printed Fabric to Finished Garments
Josi Severson’s original prints feature mid-century graphics in a sunny palette. The Minneapolis-based designer has designed fabrics for companies such as Crate & Barrel, Thibaut, Joseph Abboud, Richloom Fabrics and Blu Dot.
Relaunched Mill Has American Heritage and Italian Know-How
A 19th-century textile mill in northern Connecticut is currently humming with the activity of 40 looms making woolen and worsted fabrics for the American luxury market.
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