Hong Kong Fashion Week For Spring/Summer

The Hong Kong Fashion Week for Spring/Summer will embark its 24th edition from 10-13 July 2017 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the four-day fair is expected to receive about 1,100 exhibitors from across the globe, presenting an array of spring/summer clothing, garment, designer collections, fashion and clothing accessories, fabrics and related professional services. 

The Making Of Fendi's New Luxurious 'Lei Selleria' Bags

Luxury is not a child’s play. It requires immense hard work, perseverance and detailing in the process of making something luxurious and perfect.

Innovation At Its Best With Girggit's Colour-Changing T-Shirts

With all kinds of innovation and technology already taking over the fashion industry, we almost forgot there is always something new coming this way.

Fabric Fundas The Trousering Fabric Market In India

Style and color no doubt are the important attractions for any apparel line but it is ultimately the fabric that occupies the centre stage. And this applies to trousers as well. With trend for ready-mades gaining momentum, the USP for each brand rests with the fabric that is being put to use and at the price at which the finished product is sold.

Top 10 Challenges Fashion Retailers Facing In India Today

Fashion, the avant garde of Indian retail, is also a highly evolved sector. Evolution brings in a multiplicity of issues and opportunities. And in an ever evolving market what was top issue yesterday may not be the foremost concern area today. Images BOF in its annual study identifies which are the top-issues facing fashion retailers today and studies how fashion retailers perceive them.

Ted Baker

Ted Baker

Sugar Candy A Tale Of Love & Luxury

Sugar Candy’s story is an offshoot of Seema Khandelwal’s foiled searches for distinctive and elegant clothing for her daughter, when she was growing up.

Baggit Beauty Without Cruelty

Established in the year 1990, Baggit is definitely one of the most talked about fashion accessory brand now. The brand’s strong belief in ‘beauty without cruelty’ and it’s eco-friendly virtues helped it win the the PETA Proggy Award in 2007. Founder Nina Lekhi outlines the brand’s values and talks about the booming Indian accessories market.

WGSN Aims to ‘Set Trends' in Indian Markets With Increased Local Content

WGSN, the leading global trend authority for fashion and creative industries with more than 6,000 clients across the world is excited to dive into South Asian markets with increased local content. The successful collaboration between WGSN and Technopak, which commenced in 2007, serves more than 200 clients today.

Cotton USA Vouches for the Growth & Future of Cotton

Cotton Council International organized a seminar on September 29th in Mumbai, and offered useful insights on the present scenario of cotton and cotton textile industry in India.  

Rupa Softline Perfect Concoction of Quality & Style

Rohit Gupta, General Manager, Rupa Softline, talks to Images BoF about the brand, the emerging women’s innerwear market in India and how the global competition is compelling indigenous brands to streamline their processes and stay relevant in this cut throat market. 

Euro Fashions Introduces Sidharth Malhotra As Its New Brand Ambassador

Premium innerwear brand, Euro Fashion Inners (popularly known as Euro Fashions) announced Bollywood Actor Sidharth Malhotra as its new brand ambassador with the launch of its latest commercial, which endorses the new tagline, ‘Start Something Sexy’.

Status Quo Joins Hands With Baahubali Franchise

Status Quo, one of India’s leading apparel manufacturers, announced its association as the official fashion partner for the Baahubali franchise. The brand launched an official range of Baahubali apparels for men, designed on popular and lead characters of the film including Baahubali, Bhallala Deva, and Kattappa among others.

LULU Fashion Week 2017

Brings up the Glamour & Fashion Quotient With Top brands

IFF'17 Inaugral Session

Bringing Alive Teh Future Of Fashion Through Innovation, Consumer Insights And Retail Differentation

Launch Of India Business Of Fashion Report 2017

At India Fashion Forum

Indian Fashion Market

Indian fashion market is growing at a very fast pace and is expected to reach USD 96 billion in the next four years. Apparel which is USD 51 billion, will continue to grow at a steady pace of 10.5 percent CAGR over the next four years and will touch USD 75 billion. A key segment to look out for is the niche category of lifestyle accessories which is going to become 3 times of its size from USD 2 billion to approximately USD 6 billion, growing at a rate of 30 percent CAGR over the next four years. At the India Fashion Forum 2017, Pakhie Saxena, Vice President, Technopak, talked about Indian Fashion Market - its size, key categories, challenges and its share in the total market.

Indigo Nation

Indigo Nation has always been the cult brand for young and the restless. “Subject To Change” as its stance, the brand delivers fast fashion to the young Indian youth who forever aspires to be ‘in’. Over the years, Indigo Nation has done beautiful campaigns to stay true to its core values. It launched the #StartupNation campaign where it associated itself with major startup centric events to reach out to a wider audience and be relevant.

Trousers In Indian Apparel Market

From just being simple straight utilitarian parallel garments for men and women to its recent casual avatar, the trousers category has indeed witnessed a tectonic shift in India. Experts Amit Gugnani, Senior Vice President - Fashion (Textile & Apparel) and Saima Nigar, Associate Consultant - Fashion & Textile Division, from Technopak takes a look at this rapidly emerging segment.

Tapping The Trouser Category In India

Today, sporting trousers for a casual outing is commonplace, unlike the quondum template where formals strictly meant trousers and casual meant denim. The market for trousers in India has, over the years, seen a casual acceptance of different cuts, fabrics and style. We take a look.

Knitcon 2016: Know, Adopt & Grow

Knitcon 2016 focused on the latest technology in the knitwear industry and highlighted West Bengal as a global knitwear hub. Supported by SIHMA, IAAI, WBHA and BHMA, the conference witnessed attendance of speakers from not only India but also from South Korea, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, and USA.

Wedding Wear: Indian Retailer's Diary

In this part of the wedding wear study, Images BoF focuses on the changing retail market of wedding wear in India. This article highlights how Indian retailers gear up to do great business in this important season. We also look at the new fashion trends in Indian wedding wear.

The Textiles And Ornamental Led Fashion Accessories Segment

India is a young nation, with a median age of around 27 years.

DA Milano

Opens Its First Global Store In Dubai

Women's Jewellery In India

From its auspicious slant to becoming a fashion statement, the significance of jewellery has evolved with time. Veteran luxury retail and lifestyle professional and independent consultant Anil Prabhakar sketches out the history of jewellery in India and shares his outlook of the industry in India.

Time To Consolidate

Guess, one of the world’s most recognised fashion watch brands, is admired for look and functionality alike! The brand entered India in 2006 and today has affi rmed itself as the leader and pioneer in the watch industry. In an open dialogue with BoF, Ivana Perovic Shah, CEO, AP Group, the Distributors & Retailers for Guess Accessories for India, discusses the brand’s decade-long presence in India and the way forward.

No Gender

When Alexis died, the actress Patricia Arquette lost her sister.

Disruption

Everything. At once and at any time–those who use digital channels are used to that–whether it’s about flights, books or sex partners.

CMAI'S 63RD NGF retains its unparalleled stature as India's premier trade fair

The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) organized the 63rd National Garment Fair, which was held from 13th to 15th July 2016 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, NSE Complex, Goregaon (East), Mumbai. The fair was inaugurated by Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani

Four Decades Of Lingerie Selling Excellence

Amrut, an exclusive lingerie store by Ravji P. Shah, in the western suburbs of Mumbai, has come a long way. It has witnessed four generations of families coming to the store for lingerie shopping. Shah shares about its relationship with the customers and their preferences.