Freeze frame on details: a collection marched by intriguing pieces evoking gamblers atmosphere and aesthetics: Hard Rock Cafè and Piano Bar, gambling tables and playing cards with a rock flavour which will suit your soul; from Bill Haley to Carl Perkins and David Crosby… In a world where stories, glances and movements interweave…

Attention is paid to every single detail in this collection; modelling heightens by external stitching, double necks, double pipings, shades of darker colours. Molded vests, structured jackets personalized by hi-tech details; turtleneck sweaters, pocket pullovers, snap fasteners, necks with piping stitching.

Hi-tech sweaters with outright geometries alternating gloss/opaque, cashmere lights up with metal sparklers. Most items in this collection are black with blue and still grey details: a daring option.

Playing micro patterns, soft profiles, small coloured geometries alternate, join, come and go. Dottled inlays share room and slot together with more geometric lozenges. Dots also stand alone with balanced colour matches creating light and dark plays.

Suffused patterns, subtle colour matches creating in a balance which lets subjects be glimpsed; geometries, figures, high artistic expression which make an item unique and keen on luxury with a touch aristocratic personality, represented by piping “struck” with colours. Optical reversible prints evoke Brit-sixties patterns to provide the eccentric look today’s gentlemen will undoubtedly love.

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Responding to the growing number of parents choosing to use products that have minimal impact on the environment, PTPA Media - a company providing reviews and awarding it's seal of approval of items that have been tested and approved by parents - is announcing its first call for "green" products.

PTPA Media realizes that families are increasingly becoming more proactive and vocal about going "green" in an effort to provide a better environment for future generations.  In its ongoing pursuit to offer child and family-friendly products that are designed to enrich family living, PTPA Media plans to continue the Green Award as long as parents are persistent about living an eco-friendly lifestyle

Marie Osmond’s life-long passion for quilting is a treasured legacy passed down from her mother, Olive, who showed her only daughter how to turn ordinary scraps of fabric into extraordinary works of art. Marie’s continued love of homemade needlecrafts and her commitment to introducing the pleasure of sewing to generations to come makes her a perfect partner for Janome America, Inc., a leading manufacturer of home sewing machines. The new Janome Memory Craft 11000 has become Marie’s signature choice in a sewing, quilting and embroidery machine.

What separates a Ralph Lauren T-shirt from a Lacoste jersey? The horse and the alligator, of course! This type of instant, indelible, name-brand recognition based on simple embroidered designs is a paradigm for the fashion industry.

“Embroidery will always be in fashion, whether it’s a beautifully intricate floral pattern on a wedding gown or a simple monogram on a tailored shirt,” says Mike McEvoy, VP of Marketing and Sales for Hirsch International Corp., a Suffolk County-based company that is the leading provider of commercial embroidery, screen-printing, and textile laser systems in North America. “The best part about the industry is that you do not have to be a huge designer to start your own, unique, decorated apparel line.”

From home-based “mom and pop” shops, to high-volume decorators and major retailers, Hirsch helps more customers start apparel decorating businesses than any other company by offering single and multi-head embroidery machines, proprietary application software, embroidery parts, supplies, and accessories for their customers.

Consumers are now becoming aware of what quilters and crafters have known for years; that using fabric for wrapping and trimming gifts offers a personal touch that is affordable, visually rich and an eco-sensitive alternative to expensive and often non-recyclable wrapping papers.

lululemon athletica inc. (NASDAQ: LULU; TSX: LLL) today announced that independent tests have confirmed the content of the VitaSea product line to be consistent with the garment care and content labels.  Robert Meers, CEO of lululemon, stated: “Product quality and authenticity are of the utmost importance to lululemon. Integrity goes to the core of everything we do and is at the heart of our relationship with our guests. For this reason, we test our products for content using a leading testing facility. We absolutely stand behind our products, our processes and refute any claims in recent press reports to the contrary.”

Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE:HBI) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) today announced a 10-year strategic alliance that will tap into the marketing and product expertise of two of the world’s most trusted and recognized lineups of brands. The alliance includes basic apparel exclusivity for the Hanes and Champion brands, product co-branding, attraction sponsorships and other brand visibility and signage at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts properties.

Bernina International, the world's largest privately held sewing machine company, is providing its customers with the user friendly tools they need to become home-based professional fashion designers, thanks to the cutting-edge technologies provided by OptiTex Ltd. Bernina International has selected OptiTex to serve as OEM for its MyLabel software in what is shaping out to be the world’s first and largest advanced 3D product offering for the home based professional designers.

Here is a great idea from students at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Imagine coordinating your wardrobe in the dark. Every morning, millions of blind or visually impaired people reach into their closets to read the Braille-embossed aluminum tags sewn into their clothes or the coding system of safety pins they’ve devised to identify their garments.

Jaimen Brill and Asmah Abushagur want to give the blind and visually impaired community more independence in choosing their wardrobe and more confidence when dressing for success. They are in the process of forming the nonprofit organization White Cane Label to help the blind and visually impaired shop for clothing and coordinate their outfits. They are advocating for an interactive, talking Web site and standardized, Braille-embossed clothing tags made of cloth, not aluminum, to be sewn onto all garments.

Reprocessing:  providing the service of: blacking out labels, removing tickets, grading and then re-ticketing, re-labeling and pre-packing for retail.  They typically do not consider themselves warehouses because they do not always provide pick and pack or order fulfillment services (however, some warehouse do both reprocessing and warehousing).  Reprocessing companies typically touch every item that comes into their facility and conduct a value-add service. 

The refurbishers typically are converted sew rooms that make long-sleeve shirts into short-sleeves, sew on buttons or repair manufacturing defects.  You have clients who distinctly provide these services. 

Third party reprocessors are established service providers for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. 

You can find companies that provide refurbishing or reprocessing services at the refurbishing apparel directory.