Apparel
October 27, 2015 at 5:24 pm
Proforma, Cleveland, announced the launch of Global Graphics Network (GGN), a sister company focused exclusively on helping commercial printers grow their businesses.
October 26, 2015 at 5:39 pm
The 2016 World Series is nearly upon us, and the New York Mets will face the Kansas City Royals. Some baseball fans could be a little surprised by this matchup, but the Mets organization never had any doubt that the…
October 26, 2015 at 3:14 pm
The 2013 garment factory collapse at Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza, which killed at least 1,133 people, was seen around the world as a wake-up call. There already had been several deadly tragedies in the country’s massive and growing garment industry, such as the 2012 Tazreen Fashions fire, but the deaths at Rana Plaza were on a new…
October 23, 2015
The Kansas City Royals' confidence after the 2014 postseason inspired Lee's Summit, Missouri-based graphic designer Gina Seibel to wear her heart on her sleeve.
"Me and my husband kept saying,'They have swagger!' And he's like, 'You should put that on a T-shirt!'" she said with a laugh. She agreed, but with a minimum requirement to get shirts printed, she reached out to friends to see if anyone else wanted one.
The response was big and out of that, KC Swagger was born.
October 21, 2015
George Lucas is notorious for tinkering with, and changing his "Star Wars" movies. And most of the time, not for the better. Now, the merchandizing side of things is getting in on the game, and fans don't like it one bit. Some might call "Star Wars" history sacred. But those people obviously don't work for the company manufacturing Target's novelty T-shirt line. There is a new boys T-shirt hanging on store racks, and it makes a significant change to a key scene early on in the first movie, "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope."
October 21, 2015
Along with the hoverboard and self-drying jacket, the self-lacing shoes Marty McFly puts on in "Back to the Future: Part II" have become one of the most recognizable products in film history—and on the date that McFly time-traveled to in the 1989 film, Nike could be about to make them a reality.
The man who designed the shoes for the film, legendary Nike designer Tinker Hatfield, revealed in January that his team was working hard on a pair of Nike Air MAG sneakers with Power Laces, which he hoped would launch some time in 2015.
October 21, 2015
American Apparel, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, said it would become profitable in 2018.
The Los Angeles company predicts that its reorganization plan—designed to shed heavy debts and interest payments—will help turn its fortunes around in three years, according to a Thursday filing with the Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
American Apparel has suffered net losses totaling nearly $384 million over the last five and a half years. But under its plan, the company said its net income would be $6 million in 2018. By 2020, American Apparel predicted it would pull in a profit of $23.7 million.
October 21, 2015
Teens and their fashion choices—it's a never-ending popularity contest, and what's deemed cool in the hallways of any given high school can differ plenty from region to region (not to mention week to week). But the hottest brand with the demographic these days has actually been on top of the heap for some time now: Nike is the most popular brand for fall 2015, according to teens surveyed by research firm Piper Jaffray, and that's been the case since 2011.
It makes sense that the world's most valuable athleticwear brand would trump more traditional fashion retailers.
October 21, 2015
Today, a group of some of the world’s biggest brands, retailers, nongovernmental organizations and industry groups launch a Social and Labor Convergence Project, with the aim of improving working conditions in apparel manufacturing across the world.
The project seeks to achieve sustainable change through the development of an industry-wide, standardized methodology for social and labor performance assessment in apparel and footwear supply chains. The industry believes it will be able to significantly reduce the amount of money it spends on duplicated auditing and invest the money saved in improving social welfare for millions of people employed in apparel manufacturing worldwide.
October 14, 2015
Employees from TSC Apparel, Cincinnati, Ohio, recently took part in Greater Cincinnati’s Habitat for Humanity project, serving as volunteers in the building of two homes in the Cincinnati community.
