The cashmere sweater that started Uniqlo on the road to dominating the American market

What's stopping Uniqlo, Japan's biggest clothing retailer, from expanding to the United States? Increasing the number of people in the U.S. who are aware of who they are.

The clothing company aims to expand in one of the world's most competitive consumer markets, where it ha...

Here Are 18 German Clothing Companies That Every Highs Nobiety Fan Should Be Familiar

A cultural lens that travels the world in search of the most promising newcomers. The top apparel brands and designers you need to know may be found all over the world, from Australia to Korea. German engineering is more commonly associated with automobiles, beer, and home appliances than with cl...

The first brick-and-mortar location for popular e-commerce brand Zozo will soon open.

Zozo, a popular Japanese e-commerce site for women's clothing, has announced that it will establish its first brick-and-mortar store in Tokyo in the middle of December in order to provide consumers with free styling guidance. Rather of actually selling goods, the new shop will employ stylists...

European Union Says Fast Fashion Will be Responsible for Clothing Quality, Toxic Chemicals, and Waste

Most of the clothes we wear are essentially oil and gas. Fossil fuels remain at the heart of fast fashion and produce mountains of waste.

The story of fast fashion goes back to 2000 when cotton was replaced by polyester as the most commonly used fiber. Because of its quality of being ch...

JAPAN’S SUPERMARKET SALES ROSE 6.0% IN APRIL

Highlights –

• Japan’s supermarket sales rose 6.0% in April.
• Strong demand for clothing, with sales jumping 74.3% led to rise in supermarket sales.
• Overall sales of 11,804 supermarkets totaled 1.08 trillion yen.
• Sales o...

JAPAN’S CLOTHING ITEMS GENERATES OVER 95 MILLION TONS CO2 A YEAR

Highlights –

• Japan’s clothing items generate over 95 million tons of CO2 a year.
• About 98% of garments in the Japanese market in 2020 were imported from overseas.
• Around 5 million tons are attributed to burning unsold clothes of...

JAPANESE FIRMS EXITING SOUTH KOREAN MARKET DUE TO ANTI-JAPAN MOVEMENT

HIGHLIGHTS

• Due to trade war between Japan and South Korea, South Koreans started movement against Japanese products.
• The boycott movement has completed one year and it is still going strong.
• Japanese firms have started exiting South Korea.<...

BRITISH INFLATION RISES LAST MONTH; INCREASE IN DEMAND FOR GAMING CONSOLES

Highlights –

• British inflation rises last month; increase in demand for gaming consoles;
• Office for National Statistics reported data for May and June.
• Economists had expected the rate to remain unchanged at 1.2%.
• ONS ment...

3 BEST MALE FASHION STYLES TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2020

Highlights:

• Many trends from 2019 have crept back in 2020
• Loose and comfortable clothing have been major hits this year

New Year brings new trends and also the repetition of some older trends. Many styles and trends from male fashion...

THREDUP PARTNERS WITH GAP INC.

Highlights:

• Gap Inc., has entered the resale sector with ThredUP partnership
• As per reports over 56 million women worldwide shopped resold clothes

The resale industry sees a new entrant in the form of Gap Inc. The brand has joined ha...

Wearables, Technology for future in a mini form

The clothes we wear are not just a mere necessity anymore. Clothing has become intelligent today. A huge transformation has happened in terms of wearable technology which actually started with a wrist watch. Due to constant research and development in the technological field with the help of nano...

HAFSA LODI’S TAKE ON MODEST CLOTHING AS A SYMBOL FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

HAFSA LODI’S TAKE ON MODEST CLOTHING AS A SYMBOL FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Highlights:

• The Dubai based American stylist and fashion journalist provides hacks to a modest style
• Believes flaunting of body and minimalistic cl...

Shopping discounts before Christmas could hit up to 50%

Sales discounts on clothing and products around Christmas could be the biggest in almost ten years, as per reports.

Deloitte expects average discounts to hit 50% by Christmas Eve. Since 2011, it has monitored the prices of 800,000 products across online platforms and in shops.

'Clothing as a Service' to be the future of retail

Clothing as a Service (CaaS) is a distribution model where the consumers can rent or subscribe to the clothing or accessories. The CaaS model is gathering popularity with the fashion-loving crowd and increasing loyalty. Many companies have already implemented the model. Rent the Runway was establ...

Interesting insights into 'Fast Fashion'

Most people today have heard of the phrase ‘Fast Fashion’. So, what exactly is Fast Fashion?

According to a definition by Good on You, an ethical fashion app for trusted brand rating, ‘Fast fashion can be defined as cheap, trendy clothing, that samples ideas from the c...

Biochemical innovations

Biopesticides

In France, a corporation referred to as Amoeba aims to use Willaertia Magna amoeba to eliminate fungi in crops or Legionella pneumophilia in cooling water towers. Another approach is to style molecules that by selection kill crop infections. The case of Agrosavfe in Belgiq...

Import of used clothes from China, Bangladesh,and Indonesia to be banned by Indian government.

The newly shaped National Committee on Textiles and clothing has urged the government to prevent the import of used garments from China, Bangladesh, and Indonesia because the domestic textile trade is reeling below falling exports, rising imports and speed demand.

The committee has conj...

Online shoppers in Australia not warned of hazardous cancer causing materials in clothing

Australians who shop online may be buying fashion products than can cause cancer. The lack of an advertising legislation which warns Australians of such hazards is recently brought to light. In the US digital retailers must inform their customers by law if their customers are buying products whic...