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The fashion of counterfeiting

The recent years witness a resurgence of fashionable commodities. The ever increasing demand for luxury goods lured counterfeiters, and gave way to the manufacture of fake items. From the shop in the ...

Unpicking the South African fashion industry

The objective of this presentation is to stimulate critical debate and interaction with a captive audience. It is a bird's eye view of South Africa's fashion industry, tracking some important...

Traditional Chinese clothing

Fashion re-invents itself from time to time, with some modern touches fashion breathes from its age old roots. Culture and fashion have a strong connection and both keep influencing each other making ...

The art of science in fashion and textile design

Science plays a major role in design development of fashion clothing and accessories, just a glimpse into the past will confirm enough to be true. It's not a jumbled business of cloth and colours...

Fashion forward 2008 - The top hot fashion trends

You probably can't recall who said it, but whoever first uttered that fashion comes full circle every 30 years or so was not too far off. This season on the runway is reminiscent of the flowing 70s...

High heels: fashion icon or health hazard?

Since the time of Cinderella, women have a fascination for heels. A popular style for the women of today is high heels often worn in any formal occasion. For those women who want to highlight their...

Don’t be square

Artists learn to lead the eye exactly where they want it. And not only that, they lead it in a manner that is pleasing, not demanding. For example, picture a country cottage in a wooded setting. It...

Mineral makeup - melange of science and beauty

Environment and health has become an important component in all walks of life and makeup is no exception to it. Mineral makeup has been around for 30 years in countries such as Egypt, Morocco, India, ...

Color and fabric trends for autumn, winter - 08/09

Fashion is now developing with a richness and creativity that is remarkable. Changes in the fashion world are constant and always include an inspiration of the past. Fads change over the years and...

Go size zero?

London fashion week came and went but the issue still remains. UK fashion bosses want to ban the obviously underweight models and let our more "real" size women talk to the Catwalks. Where do we draw ...

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