The study found that yarn was the most commonly used material, across the four main fashion weeks. It represented 18.7% of the looks, with a strong lead on leather, its runner-up found in 11.2% of the looks. Satin followed with 10.3%, followed by sequins at 10.2% and denim not too far behind, at 8.5%. Silk was only featured in 7.9% of the looks, similarly to lace at 7.6%.Fishnet came in eighth place, with a 2.9% presence, closely followed by feathers at 2.7% and tulle at 2.4%. Linen is the 12th most frequent textile, behind metallic fabrics at 1.9%, with a 1.7% presence in the looks from the latest collections. That was followed only by brocard at 1.5%, velvet at 1.4% and mesh with a 1.3% presence.
Tagwalk concluded that linen fiber is the material with the most growth across the …
Japan was one of the most important EU trade deals the UK hoped to replicate in the event of a no-deal Brexit, as the value of British exports to Japan amount to £9.9bn every year.The Department for International Trade said it is currently negotiating continuity agreements with 40 countries currently covered by EU membership, but Japan has to be excluded because the EU trade deal has only come into force this month.
The EU’s trade agreement with Turkey will be also excluded.In 2017, Liam Fox said the UK would be able to replicate 40 EU free trade deals by the 29 March, which is the scheduled date for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.But so far, the government has been able to secure transition agreements with just seven of the 69 countries and regions which have tra…
Both Amazon and Flipkart have challenged the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in court as they seek revocation of an Indian court’s June decision to allow an antitrust probe against them to continue. The companies deny any wrongdoing.India’s government has called the U.S. firms arrogant and accused them of using legal routes to stall the investigation.
In final submissions made to a court in southern India’s Karnataka state, the Walmart unit argued that CCI and the court “confuse the facts” between the case of Amazon and Flipkart, and overlooked that they were “fierce competitors”.To back its arguments, it said that a business agreement examined by the CCI before ordering its probe was only between Amazon and its sellers, and there was no such evidence against the Walmart uni…