Here are 7 essential fall accessories for every girl's wardrobe: versatile boots for style and warmth, a classic black dress suitable for any occasion, a variety of purses and handbags, scarves and...

Fashion constantly recycles ideas, with each New Year bringing new trends. Designers and forecasters predict styles that will dominate both on and off the runway. Some trends are timeless, while...

Global fashion blends cultures, with designers increasingly adopting elements from various traditions, resulting in patterns in America and Europe rooted in Asia and Africa. The 2014 spring ramps...

Spring/Summer 2015 fashion introduces four key trends: Thrift Shop, Artisanal, New Age Pop, and Streamline. Thrift Shop leads with vintage-inspired muted and bold colours, quirky prints, and fabrics...

Every piece of clothing, every sample of fabric, every strand of yarn is part of textile's creativity, as each step to form the final textile product requires a well sketched plan and out of the box...

Ikat, a centuries-old dyeing technique, involves tying threads to control dye placement, creating intricate patterns. The complexity increases with multiple colours. Weft ikats are less precise,...

Fashion is cyclic and so are trends. Time and again there are styles and looks that are re-invented by designers or return to the runway in their original essence. Hence each year a retro brigade of...

The fashion world continually evolves, and a new term, Muslim fashion, has emerged and is here to stay. Originating from the Islamic revivalist movement's call for modest dressing, the 1980s and...

In 2013, the Rana Plaza factory collapse, the second largest industrial disaster in history, killed nearly 1,200 garment workers in Bangladesh. This tragedy forced the fashion and textiles industry...

'Yes I'm very afraid,' admits Moussa Doumbia. 'Sometimes I can't sleep.' Moussa grows cotton as a cash crop in Mali. He lies awake at night wondering whether he will be able to afford medicine to...