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Fashion’s Chemical Crisis: Addressing PFAS, VOCs, and Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Clothing
Fashion’s Chemical Crisis: Addressing PFAS, VOCs, and Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Clothing

Modern fashion relies heavily on chemicals like PFAS, VOCs, phthalates, and formaldehyde, which persist in the environment and pose health risks to workers and consumers. Contaminated wastewater,...

Fusion Couture: How Cross-Cultural Weddings Are Transforming Bridal and Groom Fashion
Fusion Couture: How Cross-Cultural Weddings Are Transforming Bridal and Groom Fashion

Cross-cultural weddings are reshaping bridal and groom fashion by blending traditions into innovative attire. Brides and grooms merge silhouettes, colours, and accessories from multiple cultures,...

Calico Dresses and Bonnets: The Colourful History and Frontier Fashion of Pioneer Women
Calico Dresses and Bonnets: The Colourful History and Frontier Fashion of Pioneer Women

Calico dresses and bonnets were the heart of pioneer fashion, blending durability with charm. Originating from India, calico’s colourful prints became frontier staples, hiding stains and adding...

Destination Shopping in Luxury Fashion Retail: Where Experience Meets Exclusivity
Destination Shopping in Luxury Fashion Retail: Where Experience Meets Exclusivity

Destination shopping in luxury fashion blends travel, culture, and exclusivity, offering more than products—it delivers memories and meaning. Flagship stores act as cultural landmarks, with bespoke...

Tricorn Hat & Frock Coat: A Journey Through 18th‑Century American Fashion
Tricorn Hat & Frock Coat: A Journey Through 18th‑Century American Fashion

Tricorn hats and frock coats shaped 18th century American fashion, blending practicality with status and identity. Tricorns protected from weather, showcased wigs, and signalled allegiance, while...

Colonial American Clothing: What Puritans and Pilgrims Wore, From Fabrics to Fashion and Function
Colonial American Clothing: What Puritans and Pilgrims Wore, From Fabrics to Fashion and Function

Colonial American clothing blended practicality, piety, and resilience. Puritans and Pilgrims wore wool and linen in muted shades, with collars, bonnets, and breeches reflecting modesty and faith....

Button Blankets: Indigenous Art, Culture, and Style from the Pacific Northwest
Button Blankets: Indigenous Art, Culture, and Style from the Pacific Northwest

Button Blankets are wool robes adorned with mother-of-pearl buttons, embodying Indigenous artistry of the Pacific Northwest. Each design carries clan crests and ancestral stories, worn at...

The Pueblo Manta Dress: History, Meaning, Styling & How to Spot the Real Thing
The Pueblo Manta Dress: History, Meaning, Styling & How to Spot the Real Thing

The Pueblo manta dress is a hand-woven garment blending fashion, heritage, and ritual meaning. Traditionally made of cotton or wool, it reflects cultural pride through symbolic patterns and natural...

Wool Denim: A Fusion of Heritage, Performance, and Sustainability
Wool Denim: A Fusion of Heritage, Performance, and Sustainability

Wool denim fuses traditional denim’s structure with wool’s comfort, warmth, and moisture management, creating a versatile, seasonless fabric. It offers softness, odour resistance, durability, and a...

Traditional Inuit Clothing: The Art, Culture, and Survival Behind Parkas and Mukluks
Traditional Inuit Clothing: The Art, Culture, and Survival Behind Parkas and Mukluks

Inuit parkas and mukluks blend survival, culture, and artistry, crafted from caribou fur and sealskin for warmth and resilience. Each garment carries spiritual meaning, symbolising gratitude to...

A few years later, the same process is now taking place in textile printing, and this has never...
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Gabi Seligsohn
Imagine a cricketer, once an exciting player but now aged 45, having put on oodles of weight, too...
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Rahul Mehta
The focus in research and development (R&D) is now more and more set on new sustainable products...
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Fanny Vermandel
It was not very long ago that people who shopped online in India were considered 'ahead of time'....
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Arun Sirdeshmukh
Luxury is a lifestyle, and fashion is just a minuscule part of it. Businesswise-the most visible or ...
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Abhay Gupta
Is your business ready for Textiles 4.0? Before you can say, 'Yes', 'No', 'May be' or 'I don't...
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Aseem Prakash
Indians are too enamoured of Hollywood. We can’t help it. We have been conditioned this way. The...
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Anurag Batra
Why do I ask if India can afford to miss the bus again? Because whether we like it or not, whether...
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Rahul Mehta
Effective quality management starts with a quality policy. Effectiveness is the extent to which...
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Pradip Mehta
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey concluded that a majority of US companies are having...
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Bill D’Arienzo