Textile Insight - March, 2010
A Woman’s Point of View
Here we take a look at design from the perspective of three diverse women. We shadow buyer Helena Lau at the recent Texworld show in New York City and spy what looks promising commercially for Spring ’11 and beyond. We also catch up with two desig...
A Spark In the Market
New materials, innovative construction techniques and a wider range of looks are adding flash to the next-to-skin category for Fall ’10.
What with approximately 70 brands offering some type of baselayer product, brands are taking differentiation to heart. Well-established companies and newcomers alike are approaching next-to-skin designs with a fresh eye, bringing in new fabrics – inc...
Defining Themes Driving the Marketplace Today
It’s not just the economy that’s determining the direction going forward.
Like them or not, trade shows serve as an efficient means to lend definition to an industry. This was certainly the case this winter. From the big fairs in Salt Lake City and Munich, to smaller venues in New York City, a consistent handful of th...
A Brooklyn Story
Brand on the Rise: A Conversation with Outlier Tailored Clothing
Tailored performance clothing for cycling in the city. That’s the tagline used by nascent Brooklyn-based apparel brand Outlier Tailored Clothing. Outlier’s founders and designers, Tyler Clemens and Abe Burmeister, say they were just two guys riding t...
Danielle Ribner: Game, Set, Match
Hitting the courts to make Loup tennis gear stylish.
Serve: Danielle Ribner chose to quit her secure design gig at Jones Apparel Group at a challenging time, the end of 2007. “Everyone thought I was crazy,” she says. “It was during the recession.” But she saw an opportunity for activewear that worked o...
Euro Show Report
Interfilière: Glamour, Femininity and Purpose
Fineness and technique characterized intimate apparel fabrics for Spring/Summer 2011 at the January edition of Interfilière, held jointly with the Salon International de la Lingerie at Paris’ Porte de Versailles. The combined shows saw 29,928 visitor...
Oregon State Conducts Research on Poplar Fibers
We already have fabrics made from hemp, bamboo, soy and seaweed. But now there’s another new fiber generating buzz. Oregon State researchers are very optimistic about the performance characteristics of poplar fibers, which can be a sustainable and e...
Insight on What’s Next
The Conscious Consumer: What Does Consumption Mean?
“The consumptive future is about efficiency, driving interest in durable, higher quality goods, and versatile, innovative design,” says Kurt Gray, who shared his views on what motivates consumers’ buying decisions at a seminar held during the recent ...
The Price of Innovation
Good friends of mine are life-long skiers. They grew up in families with second homes in Vermont and spent nearly every winter weekend of their childhood traveling the interstate so the family could be on the mountain from first thing Saturday mornin...
Salt Lake Show Report
Outdoor Retailer: Quiet Confidence
It was as if the textile community decided to collectively exhale and enjoy a mellow Outdoor Retailer. While not projecting a banner year, fiber/fabric folks are seeing glimmers of hope on the horizon and in general feel upbeat about upcoming seasons...
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