TECHNOLOGY
Sourcing at MAGIC Makes Global Connections
By Kelli Freeman, Contributing Writer | March 8, 2024
Held Feb. 13–15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Sourcing at MAGIC Las Vegas drew 800 exhibitors from 40 countries including African nations, Brazil, China and the United States.
IndigoLast Takes Its Place Alongside NYDJ’s Other Eco-Friendly Collections
NYDJ—formerly known as Not Your Daughter’s Jeans—has unveiled a new eco-friendly wash called IndigoLast that will take its place alongside the brand’s BlackLast and BlueLast eco-friendly collections.
EBW Signs Up With Manhattan Associates to Transform Its Retail Experience
Everything But Water, the largest women’s specialty-swim and resort brand, announced it has deployed Manhattan Associates’Manhattan Active Omni solution as part of its full-scale digital-retail-transformation project across its 85 U.S. locations.
Unifi’s Textile Takeback Program Aims to Change the Fate of Polyester
In the past, obsolete fashion was cast into the dustbin of history. But legislation working its way through Europe and slowly making its way to the U.S. will soon require that garments find their way back into a circular marketplace rather than a landfill.
TUKAweb and BDC Team Up to Provide Educational Opportunities and Programs
Leading technology firm TUKAweb, a division of the TUKAgroup, has partnered with the Black Design Collective to support the amplification of BDC’s mission.
Ideation Conference Focuses on Sustainability, Turnaround, Less Waste
Fashion executives, technology leaders and innovators gathered at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in downtown Los Angeles Dec. 8 for the Ideation on the Road 2022 conference.
Pulp Friction: To craft a more circular supply chain, Renewcell grinds old apparel into new
What is the future of fashion? No, not the next style but the actual process of making and selling it. Increasingly it’s looking like a new paradigm based less on the fast and disposable and more on the durable and recyclable.
New L.A. Lifestyle Line Looks to Greener Future
Fashion and society exist in symbiotic relationship and change in tandem. Losano, a new sustainable luxury-apparel brand, has entered the market focused on a conscious consumer who puts “people and planet above all else.”
Changing the Industry Through Technology Innovations, Communication
Printing United Expo, which was held Oct. 19–21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, is one of the largest and most diverse marketplaces for printing technology and is an incubator for new directions.
Strategizing the Holiday Season and What Lies Beyond
With the holiday shopping season upon us, what data will you be tracking to inform your products and services for 2023?
Otrium Aims to Close the Loop Between Waste and Want in Fashion
In the world of supercars, nothing’s more tragic than a Ferrari that spends all its time jailed in a garage. And in the fashion world, a new website and app are making sure no garment gets imprisoned in a closet but instead gets to see the light of day—and maybe even a night on the town.
CBX Software and Higg Integrate Environmental Sustainability Data
The next big fashion trend might very well be not some hot new item but rather how that item has been made. CBX Software, one of the retail industry’s leading providers of supply-chain-management solutions, has partnered with sustainability insights platform Higg to integrate environmental sustainability data.
Levi’s Gives Its Customers a BOOST With New Technology
Levi Strauss & Co. began making dungarees for gold miners, cowboys, ranchers and everyone else in the Old West. It was “pioneering” then and hasn’t slowed down with innovations.
Port of Long Beach Welcomes First Environmentally Sustainable Ship
You may have heard of the madness of King George—there’s a superb 1994 biopic about it—but that’s certainly not the case with this George III, who’s not a monarch but a cargo ship.
LYCRA and Browzwear Enter Partnership to Save Time, Reduce Waste
When it comes to wearing clothes, one of the highest virtues is simplicity. When it comes to making them, it’s efficiency. And now The LYCRA Company, the global textile giant, plans to make that a lot easier for designers thanks to a new partnership with Browzwear, a pioneer of 3D software for the apparel industry.