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Complete Guide to Pjoobuningur: Iceland’s National Costume and Identity
Complete Guide to Pjoobuningur: Iceland’s National Costume and Identity

Pjoobuningur reflects Iceland’s identity through practicality, resilience, and collective pride shaped by harsh landscapes. Born from everyday survival, it evolved into a strong symbol of unity,...

Whispers from the Fringe: Are Emerging Designers being Left Behind?
Whispers from the Fringe: Are Emerging Designers being Left Behind?

Emerging designers remain central to fashion’s creative evolution but face shrinking space due to consolidation, rising costs, and digital pressures. Speed, scalability, and profitability now...

Unlocking Africa’s Textile, Apparel, and Fashion Potential Through the AfCFTA
Unlocking Africa’s Textile, Apparel, and Fashion Potential Through the AfCFTA

The AfCFTA can reshape Africa’s textile, apparel and fashion sector by connecting cotton, textiles, garments, design and retail into regional value chains. Phased Rules of Origin can balance job...

Folkedragt: A Complete Guide to Traditional Danish Folk Costumes
Folkedragt: A Complete Guide to Traditional Danish Folk Costumes

Danish folkedragt reflects rural life, faith, and regional identity through simple yet meaningful design. Shaped by hand weaving, natural fibres, and local materials, each costume tells a story of...

From Runways to Reality: How XR is Redefining Fashion
From Runways to Reality: How XR is Redefining Fashion

Extended Reality is transforming fashion by blending physical and digital experiences across design, retail, and consumer engagement. Virtual shows, AR try-ons, and 3D design tools enhance...

Finnish National Costume: The Story of Kansallispuku
Finnish National Costume: The Story of Kansallispuku

Kansallispuku reflects Finland’s cultural identity through regional designs rooted in everyday rural life. Each costume showcases traditional weaving, natural materials, and symbolic colours shaped...

The Price of Plenty: How Involution is Changing the Way Fashion is Consumed
The Price of Plenty: How Involution is Changing the Way Fashion is Consumed

Fashion involution reflects an industry producing more while achieving less value, originality, and profitability. Overproduction, digital pressure, and trend replication have diluted brand identity ...

Klompen Clogs: The Wooden Soul of the Netherlands
Klompen Clogs: The Wooden Soul of the Netherlands

Klompen are traditional Dutch wooden clogs rooted in centuries of practicality, craftsmanship, and rural life. Made from willow or poplar, they were designed for durability, comfort, and wet...

Swedish Folkdrakt: A Living Tradition of Colour, Craft, and Culture
Swedish Folkdrakt: A Living Tradition of Colour, Craft, and Culture

Swedish folkdrakt is a living expression of regional identity, history, and craftsmanship, deeply rooted in community traditions. Made from natural materials and traditional techniques, each garment ...

Elegance with Ethics: The Future of Luxury
Elegance with Ethics: The Future of Luxury

Meaningful luxury blends elegance with ethics, valuing purpose as much as beauty. Consumers now prize craftsmanship, sustainability and stories over price tags as expressions of identity. Brands...

The focus in research and development (R&D) is now more and more set on new sustainable products...
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Fanny Vermandel
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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
Indians are too enamoured of Hollywood. We can’t help it. We have been conditioned this way. The...
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Anurag Batra
Luxury is a lifestyle, and fashion is just a minuscule part of it. Businesswise-the most visible or ...
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Abhay Gupta
Imagine a cricketer, once an exciting player but now aged 45, having put on oodles of weight, too...
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Rahul Mehta
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Aseem Prakash
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey concluded that a majority of US companies are having...
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Bill D’Arienzo
It was not very long ago that people who shopped online in India were considered 'ahead of time'....
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Arun Sirdeshmukh
A few years later, the same process is now taking place in textile printing, and this has never...
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Gabi Seligsohn