TEXTILE TRENDS
Stars
Textile designers are seeing stars offering spangled designs on chambray, novelty knits, lace and foil prints.
Lush Botanicals
When it comes to botanical prints, the optimal word is “lush,” with tropical designs, oversize scale and saturated shades.
Striped Florals
Textile designers are layering classic shirting stripes with floral patterns in shades of red, pink, orange and navy.
Earn Your Stripes
Textile designers earn their stripes in style offering rugby and regatta styles as well as crisp yarn-dye shirting stripes and novelty sweater knits.
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Twin Dragon Introduces New Denim With Performance, Sustainability Qualities
Gardena, Calif.–based Twin Dragon Marketing is rolling out new denim made with Unifi’s Sorbtek wicking fiber as well as with Unifi’s recycled Repreve fiber.
Textile Design Winner
Megan Weitz, a textile design student at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, received the Hank Pola Scholarship at an Aug. 28 reception at the design school’s FIDM Museum and Galleries in downtown Los Angeles.
Groceries Apparel Looks to Build a Natural Dyehouse in Southern California
In a rapidly changing fashion market, Matt Boelk and Rob Lohman basically want to build a new segment from the ground up.
Cotton Prices Holding Stable as China Continues to Sell Off Its Reserves
Cotton prices should remain on a level playing field and even decline a bit next year as farmers around the world plant more acreage.
French Tanneries Make Their West Coast Debut at the CMC
The California Market Center played host to a small coterie of French tanneries when six companies showcased their upscale leathers for apparel, accessories and home décor July 13–14 in a suite on the CMC’s eighth floo
AAFOA Looking to Drive Innovation for Functional Fabrics
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America—which is based at MIT and has nearly 100 members from a diverse group of manufacturers, startups and institutes of higher learning—is leading a $317 million private-public effort to drive innovation in textile and fiber manufacturing.
Hyosung and Sofileta Partner for New Creora Fresh Collection
French textile mill Sofileta is working with South Korean fiber company Hyosung on a new collection featuring Hyosung’s Creora Fresh fiber.
Candiani, Albiate 1830 and Matias Showcase Italian Denim Innovation in L.A.
Albiate 1830, the denim division of Bergamo, Italy–based Italian mill Gruppo Albini, and Italian denim mill Candiani joined forces to create FineFusions, a collection that showcases “top Italian heritage, cutting-edge thinking and a virtuous spirit.”
Cone’s S Gene Tech Turns 10
Greensboro, N.C.–based denim mill Cone Denim is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its S Gene dual-core technology.
Lenzing Takes Eco a Step Further
The producer of Tencel, the closed-loop cellulosic fiber made from eucalyptus-tree pulp, has a new eco-friendly fiber. Austrian fiber maker Lenzing has introduced a new fiber made from cotton scraps and wood.
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