| This autumn in women’s and men’s wear, the buzzword is texture — so it’s no surprise that designers are revisiting the luxe touch of velvet right now. Red jacket with matching tie from Manish Mahotra’s collection This autumn in women’s and men’s wear, the buzzword is texture — so it’s no surprise that designers are revisiting the luxe touch of velvet right now. But where it used to be reserved mainly for dressy gowns and skirts, it’s showing up in less-traditional silhouettes for both day and evening. Designer Amy Billimoria says, “Velvet is undergoing a renaissance. Although its past associations include historical festivals and pouf sleeves on Eighties dresses, it’s time to wipe the slate clean — and then swathe it in velvet. The first entry point into the plush rebirth is fall’s baroque trend. Velvet’s innate opulence lends itself well to channelling seventeenth-century grandeur — almost referencing to royal courts.

However, there are plenty of simple ways to wear it too. From velvet jeans, velvet biker jackets, cross-body velvet patchwork party dresses to crushed velvet bandeaus and jumpsuits, there are different and unique ways to wear the fabric without feeling cloaked in its suffocating richness and incorporating it in an unexpected way. But velvet pieces are a lot like diamonds: whether serious or playful, you have to commit.”Designer Kiran Uttam Ghosh adds, “There are some fabrics that stand for ‘dressing up’ — right from your first party frock. Velvet is one of them and, because it is often used for little girls’ dresses as well as grown-up ones, it comes with a certain innocence and nostalgia attached to it. If satin and lace are seductive and only for people who aren’t prone to spillage, the soft pile of velvet makes it comforting, a bit huggable, the kind of fabric where you find yourself absent-mindedly stroking your own sleeve.”There are several types of velvet in the market. Pure velvet is the most luxuriant, according to designer Nandita Thirani. She adds, “Made of an acetate/viscose mix, you’ll know it by its opulent sheen and usually find it only in top-end evening wear. It drapes beautifully and if you’re looking for an investment piece, this is the one to go for.

The slightly less China Knitted Fabric Suppliers expensive silk velvet is a lighter-weight, viscose/silk mix. Most of this season’s velvet jackets are actually velveteen that are surprisingly made of 100% cotton, it has a much shorter pile, is less expensive and more hardwearing.” You can also go vintage, says designer Aartivijay Gupta. “Velvet doesn’t have to be new. Real velvet aficionados can search and hunt down vintage pieces at garment shops. Very old velvet will have more natural fibres and will probably be pure silk, so it’s fabulous. But you will have to pay considerably more for it. Before buying, check the seams and for patches of wear in a good light.”In the 40s, ladies wore clinging, bias-cut velvet dresses. In the 70s, girls and boys wore skin-hugging velvet suits. But with velvet there is a fine line between close-cut and too-small. Velvet so tight across the crotch or back that it leads to “elephant wrinkles” is, as Kiran says, “not a good look”. “Wrinkles are a no-no in velvet. They’re the equivalent of cellulite.” Which — heavens! — none of us will be modelling this season. end-of

“We don't Lycra Fabric know who will pay GST on yarn,” The Economic Times quoted Ansari Khurshid Ahmed, president, Malegaon Industrial Management Association as saying.Down south in Erode in Tamil Nadu textile industry along with the powerloom owners has been on strike for more than past few days. Weavers in Bhiwandi feel that their business will further take a hit due to the ongoing strike in neigbouring Gujarat.In Gujarat, traders in large number have taken to the street in protest against GST on textile industry. He adds that as there is no clarity it is harder for them to explain small weavers the nitty-gritty of GST.In the textile town of Bhiwandi, around 45 km from Mumbai, those who are running textile units have already started feeling the pinch after 10 days when the new indirect tax regime came into existence. Moreover, there is no yarn available amid the chaos around GST.Besides owners who are slashing production, there are many workers who are losing their livelihood.” Many other weavers said they still don't have clarity on GST for textile sector."I have over 10 lakh metres of unsold cloth in storage. Though the town has not witnessed any GST-related protest, powerloom owners here have expressed their resentment over 5 per cent GST on fabric.

The IE report adds that a woman who earned Rs 14,000 a month by working at a twisting ans mending machine lost her job.Kailash Mehta, president, Grey Cloth Traders Association in Malegaon told the ET, “We are ready to get a GST number, provided our buyers and suppliers take it too.Master weavers or those who own powerloom units are worried over 'cascading' effect of GST as they have to pay taxes for purchasing yarn. She has school going kids and an ailing husband. Many cloth weavers have shut their shops as merchnats are not buying their fabric.Malegaon, another textile hub in Maharashtra, has over 2 lakh powerloom machines. According to reports the government has put man-made yarns under 18 per cent GST bracket.Report says many of cloth making units have stockpile of unsold fabric as no one is buying them. On cotton yarn there is 5 per cent GST. end-of # Tags: gst, goods and services tax, fabric, powerloom owners, textile industry, weavers Location: India, Maharashtra, Mumbai (Bombay) Related StoriesPower Tex India, a unique powerloom scheme: SIMAGoverment to form solar scheme for powerloom sectorPowerloom sector asks government to step in; wants import tariffs.Ahmed's FT Textiles runs 5,000 powerlooms.

Mumbai: The Goods and Services Tax that was rolled out nationwide on July 1 has forced the textile industry to start protests across the country due to a 5 per cent GST rate "imposed" on them. We have been forced to close operations,” The Indian Express quoted Fayyaz Ahmed, owner of FT Textiles as saying. Bhiwandi has over 4 lakh powerloom machines run by workers many of them are from north India who had migrated to the town in search of bread. I don’t have more space. As many as 10,000 powerloom machines have stopped weaving clothes against 5 per cent GST on fabric since they started the agitation.

(Photo: AFP)japan.jpg Japan’s Hiroki Ogita came very close to clearing the bar in the men’s pole vault qualifying round at the 2016 Olympic Games, but at the last second the vault fail, throwing Ogita out of the competition. “Watching again, this is pretty funny, if I say so myself. I think it was just the Spandex Fabric wholesale crumpling of the fabric which happened at the wrong position,” he added. In a campaign that has gone viral, web users claim Hiroki Ogita’s penis “prevented him from progressing at the Rio Olympics”. Ogita has expressed shock at the way the Web has been talking about his privates. It doesn’t matter if you do it for a joke or whatever, I ask you to go and watch an actual game at a stadium for once. Twitter user @wotarou0019kota tweeted (in Japanese): “Don’t stress over it and be positive! I do athletics as well, and sometimes stuff happens. “It’s one thing if it was true, but I have to say I’m pretty devastated that they’d go so far to make something up to mock and ridicule me so much.

A Japanese pole vaulter is being mocked across the Web after his penis seemingly hit the bar while he was clearing the jump. “I never expected the foreign media to take me down like this,” the 28-year-old athlete tweeted. LOL,” he eventually tweeted. “The crossbar was bound to dislodge. I’ll do my best and get the results so that I get the last laugh.”The BBC quoted a pole vaulting expert who said the controversy was all because of an unfortunate camera angle.end-ofLocation: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. But he did finally find some humour in the incident. “To be honest, it’s pretty rough, but I guess I’m in the spotlight so this might be some kind of opportunity.Japan’s Hiroki Ogita came very close to clearing the bar in the men’s pole vault qualifying round at the 2016 Olympic Games, but at the last second the vault fail, throwing Ogita out of the competition. I hope you appreciate, even a bit, what a great sport pole vaulting is,” he said, in all seriousness. “He had already pressed on the crossbar so much,” pole vaulting coach David Yeo was quoted as saying by the BBC. It’s awesome enough that you’re able to be up there on the world stage, so hold your head up high and keep on jumping!”Ogita too is trying to stay positive amidst the rather personal crisis. Twitter users in Japan have, however, expressed support.A video clip of the athlete hitting the bar with what seemed to some his penis is currently trending online.