Textile Insight - March, 2009
Wows in Wool
Wool has flourished recently on the textile landscape and is now giving way to a bumper crop of remarkable looks and novel end uses. Modern wools have it all — softness to the touch, trans-seasonal appeal, inherent eco-friendliness and pure functiona...
Decoding Design
To find out how designers are responding to these challenging times we tagged along with them while walking trade show aisles and strolling city sidewalks evaluating emerging trends.Watching trend boards give way to next season’s styles, we were priv
Just knowing where to shop can be revealing Certainly that was true as Dick Goodstein hop-scotched from one chic boutique to another on a recent afternoon in lower Manhattan pointing out leading-edge looks in men’s fashion. Navigating our shopping t...
Shop Central
Love Takes the Form of Liquid Metal and Tie-Dye for the Calvin Klein Team at Texworld
Catherine Scales, senior designer, acted as team leader, photographer and voice of reason. Claire McKimmie took on the quiet design assistant role. Associate designer Amy Hsiung is a “dig in and choose 20 swatches” sort of gal, planning the go-to rou...
A Jacket That Rocks
Project OR: The Young and The Creative
Design Student Fuses Functionality with Fashion to Nab Top Prize. With a clear focus on functionality, and drawing on his own outdoor experiences, student designer Ron Rod created a winning performance jacket at the recent Project OR competition in S...
Westward Ho
The Textile Industry Questions Bringing Business Back to the States
When we pose the question, “how has the supply chain changed, for spinners, fiber companies, mills and garment manufacturers as a result of the economic downturn?” we hear a lot of chatter, but we don’t see much action. Talk is centered on bringi...
Team Textures Evolve
Getting In Tune with Sports Apparel
Pinpointing what female athletes want from their apparel is an exceedingly elusive task. Balancing fashion trends with performance attributes and finding the right mix within the utilitarian demands of athletic garments is an ever-evolving challenge....
University Education
MIT Students Perform Innovative Sports Research on PORON XRD
Within the competitive sports world, the goal of any sports company is to create products that help the wearer or the user of the equipment perform at a high level. In addition, the manufacturer expects the product to provide the reliability an a...
Zoica Matei
Timeless, elegant fashion for women that combines style with social conscience and sustainable fabrics, while embracing simplicity of form and focus on detail.
Designer: Zoica Matei. Made her first dress when she was 13, using two pieces of plaid fabrics that she believed would match beautifully — and they did. Inspiration is tunics, as well as men’s woven shirts made feminine through added detail and lengt...
Economics By Design
My good friend CJ is coping with today’s slumping stock market by working on her posture. Now, in addition to weeknight spinning classes and Sunday afternoon yoga sessions, she sees a personal trainer twice a month. CJ says even if her investments ar...
Fibers are Alive, Evolving and Smarter
Fiber Focus
Green Comes in Many Colors As the battle continues to evolve between organic, natural, smart, high-performance, etc., some other terms are beginning to crop up, like productivity, energy use, close-to-market production, water consumption and high yi...
In the Market
Company News
Polartec and The North Face Create Social Media Campaign Polartec and The North Face are initiating an “Eco Champion” program. The campaign, designed to recognize passionate people improving the environment, will honor an Eco Champion with a $15,...
Out of Context
The commitment, creativity and level of technical expertise on display at the Outdoor Retailer Show was overwhelming. Where else can you see micro-bonded outerwear, full lines of uber-technical, sustainability-based garments and trendy little hats ma...
Measure by Measure
Deciphering Eco-Metrics for Today’sTextiles
As the category of sustainable textiles continues to mature, many in the industry are grappling with the question of just how “green” are the latest crop of eco-fabrics. Undoubtedly some would be surprised to learn, for instance, that dip-dye polyest...
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