Archive for May, 2007

The little white dress: perfect frock for summer

Sometimes the emergence of a trend is quiet. Organically grown, instead of cultivated by the image-making machines. Such is the case with the simple summer garment now fully embraced and officially dubbed the Little White Dress.
Like their noir counterparts, introduced in the 1920s by Coco Chanel, today’s blanc frocks know no limit when it comes […]

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

VIETNAM’S GARMENT INDUSTRY URGED TO IMPROVE STANDARDS

President Nguyen Minh Triet urged representatives of Vietnams garment industry to reach international standards by upgrading technology, improving management methods and focusing on human resources development.
At the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas) congress for 2007-10 held in Hanoi on Saturday, Triet also praised the garment industry for its high-flying growth in export revenue and […]

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

Polo Ralph Lauren Ready To Rise

Polo Ralph Lauren will have to pay retail prices for a string of acquisitions this year, but its long-term outlook remains solid.
The apparel maker lowered its full-year guidance for 2008 on Wednesday after it announced recent acquisitions will cost $360 million, or 27 cents a share.
Shares of Ralph Lauren (nyse: RL - news - people […]

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

UW agrees to phase out sweatshop apparel

joint press release between the SFC, SLAP and President Mark Emmert’s office, the organizations announced that the UW has agreed to join the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP), which, over time, will effectively end the production of UW apparel in sweatshops. The UW is one of 33 schools to adopt DSP regulations.
The announcement came just one […]

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

Apparel store will open in mall

The retail apparel chain Steve & Barry’s plans to open a 42,120-square-foot store in the Cedar Creek Mall by this fall, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Mall owner Tom Timblin said negotiations with the popular outfitter of university-licensed clothing began in November, and rumors of the store coming to Cedar Creek had been circulating for months.

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

G-III Apparel Group Announces Date for First Quarter Fiscal 2008 Earnings Results

-G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIII - News) announced today that it will release its first quarter fiscal 2008 earnings on Wednesday, June 6th. A conference call to discuss results will be held at 4:30 p.m. EDT that same day.While the question-and-answer session of the call will be limited to institutional analysts and investors, retail […]

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

Logility Recognized as a Best All-Around Software Vendor in the Apparel Market

Logility, Inc. , a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced that it received high rankings as a top software vendor in the apparel market in the second annual Apparel magazine Software Scorecard.
The 2007 Apparel Software Scorecard ranks software providers based on survey response from Apparel subscribers and other apparel […]

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

Apparel training centre in Dharmapuri

Coimbatore, May 29: With a number of garment making units being set up in and around Dharmapuri, a backward district in Tamil Nadu, Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) is starting its new centre there on May 31.
Union Minister of State for Textiles E V K S Elangovan would inaugurate the facility, an ATDC release […]

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in Apparel

Apparel training centre in Dharmapuri

Coimbatore, May 29: With a number of garment making units being set up in and around Dharmapuri, a backward district in Tamil Nadu, Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) is starting its new centre there on May 31.
Union Minister of State for Textiles E V K S Elangovan would inaugurate the facility, an ATDC […]

May 30th, 2007 - Posted in Textiles

Australian fashion chain looking to set up in NZ

Another chain is set to try to get a slice of the New Zealand fashion retail market, with Australian household name Witchery to open 16 stores here by the end of next year.
Gresham Private Equity, which bought the chain in July last year from Solomon Lew for around $A130 million ($NZ146 million), expected to open […]

May 30th, 2007 - Posted in Textiles

LWR interested in takeover of Pod

Textile design company Pod has received a letter of intention to make a takeover offer from Lane Walker Rudkin (LWR) Manufacturing.
Pod said today the letter advised that LWR had an interest in making a takeover offer for all the shares in Pod at a price of 50 cents per ordinary share, but that it had […]

May 30th, 2007 - Posted in Textiles

LWR interested in Pod takeover

Textile design company Pod has received a letter of intention to make a takeover offer from LWR Manufacturing.
Pod said today the letter advised that LWR had an interest in making a takeover offer for all the shares in Pod at a price of 50 cents per ordinary share, but that it had not been in […]

May 30th, 2007 - Posted in Textiles