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• China's central bank conducts $147.9 bn reverse repo operation

  14-08-2026 17:21 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  China’s central bank conducted a 1 trillion yuan (~$147.9 billion) six-month outright reverse repo operation on Friday to maintain ample banking-system liquidity.The 185-day operation, maturing on February 15, 2027, will fully roll over an equal amount of repos due in August.The PBOC introduced the monthly operations in October 2024 to strengthen its monetary policy toolkit.
  
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• Patricio Campillo Designed a Jacket Made From Bacteria for Spring 2027

  14-09-2026 05:12 via fashionista.com
  For Spring 2027, Campillo began in media res. My fellow literature nerds may recognize the Latin term from high school English class, but rather than referencing a story that drops the reader right into the middle of the plot, designer Patricio Campillo is sartorially reflecting on “something that happens in the becoming.”
  “It’s an object that is conceptualized in the middle of a process of something else,” Campillo told Fashionista ahead of his Spring 2027 runway s
  
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• Grace Ling's Spring 2027 Collection Explores 'Oddities'

  14-09-2026 04:55 via fashionista.com
  “I found myself thinking about how there are a lot of standards of how women should dress, and we need to be feminine and not too masculine,” Grace Ling told Fashionista backstage after her Spring 2027 show. “Even on social media, we’ve [normalized] being in a ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ era. It got to a point where I was so frustrated, and all this conversation is so silly to me.”
  That irritation was the starting part for her latest collection
  
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• If James Bond Were a Woman, She'd Wear Sergio Hudson Spring 2027

  14-09-2026 04:13 via fashionista.com
  Each season, designer Sergio Hudson pays homage to a powerful female figure. In the past, he’s referenced Aretha Franklin, Cruella de Vil and Jacqueline Broyer from the 1992 film “Boomerang.” For Spring 2027, he was inspired by James Bond — if he were a woman.
  “The starting point for this collection was James Bond reversed, where the woman is the agent and the man is the ingenue being chased by her,” he told Fashionista backstage ahead of the show. “You&
  
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• Sandy Liang Does Precious Practicality for Spring 2027

  14-09-2026 02:05 via fashionista.com
  A pastel castle playhouse fit for a Polly Pocket-sized princess greeted guests at Sandy Liang’s Spring 2027 runway show on Sunday afternoon. While the candy-colored fortress felt right at home for the girlhood-inspired label, this season’s collection is taking Sandy Liang’s fantasy world into a new realm: the great outdoors.
  For Spring 2027, Sandy Liang welcomes a sense of play through a soccer-inspired trompe l’oeil skirt, dolphin-print funnel-neck jackets and ruffled tr
  
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• NYFW Showgoers Get Casual for the Spring 2027 Shows

  14-09-2026 01:00 via fashionista.com
  “Model off duty” looks — laid-back, I-just-threw-this-on outfits often consisting of jeans and a T-shirt — are a ubiquitous staple of fashion week street style. But this season at the Spring 2027 shows in New York City, it seemed the entire fashion community collectively decided to say, “Fuck it,” and dress down. (To be fair, early September is notoriously hot and humid in NYC, and jorts really are a practical garment.)
  Showgoers swapped heels for sensible fla
  
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• Dauphinette's Spring 2027 Show Finds Beauty in Returning to Itself

  13-09-2026 23:34 via fashionista.com
  On Saturday night, Dauphinette hosted its Spring 2027 show inside Genesis House, marking a return for the brand as an alum of the CFDA x Genesis House AAPI Design + Innovation Grant it won in 2025. For inspiration, Founder and Designer Olivia Cheng turned to the idea of the mondegreen — a phrase so often misheard that the mishearing takes on a life of its own. “A mondegreen is a lyric, a sentence or a phrase that is written as one thing but misheard or misinterpreted as something els
  
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• Amari Carter Took NYFW Guests to Sunday Service for Its Debut Presentation

  13-09-2026 21:22 via fashionista.com
  When it’s New York Fashion Week, most showgoers don’t have the luxury of waking up and heading to church for Sunday service. (Unless you’re lucky enough to have a rare stretch of free time, to which I say, “Amen.”) Instead, we put on our best dress, chug a cup of coffee and pray the delayed subway doesn’t put us behind schedule
  So it was quite a surprise to walk into Amari Carter’s debut NYFW presentation at The Standard Hotel and be greeted by the soun
  
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• CFDA CEO Steven Kolb Gets Physical With PETA Activists at the COS Fall 2026 Show

  13-09-2026 20:58 via fashionista.com
  Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions and depictions of violence.
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  Drama came to New York Fashion Week on Sunday at the COS Fall 2026 runway show, where CFDA CEO Steven Kolb took it upon himself to physically restrain multiple PETA activists attempting to storm the runway in protest of the use of wool in fashion. At least five representatives from the animal advocacy group disrupted the presentation, with several of them making it onto the runway
  
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• Vietnam promotes cross-border e-commerce to boost online exports

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  Vietnam is pushing practical cross-border e-commerce training as online exports become a stronger route to overseas consumers and buyers.
  Exports through e-commerce were estimated to grow 78 per cent in 2025, taking channel trade to about $4.45 billion.
  Programmes will target China, the EU, the US, Japan and the Republic of Korea with market surveys and business matching.
  
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• UK's GDP grows 0.4% in July, retail trade falls 0.5%

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  UK real GDP grew 0.4 per cent in July 2026, extending expansion for an eighth consecutive three-month period.However, retail trade excluding motor vehicles fell 0.5 per cent, signalling softer consumer activity.Services grew 0.6 per cent over three months, while production and construction each contracted 0.5 per cent, highlighting a mixed economic backdrop for apparel and retail demand.
  
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• India, Russia explore digital currencies for trade settlements

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  India and Russia are exploring a digital currency mechanism for trade settlements, with their central banks working on the structure.
  The move could reduce payment frictions for exporters and importers as bilateral trade targets $100 billion by decade-end.
  BRICS finance officials are also studying faster, lower-cost cross-border payment channels and local-currency settlement options.
  
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• India pushes stronger BRICS supply chains, easier market access

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  India called on the BRICS Business Forum to strengthen supply chains, expand market access and reduce trade barriers.Discussions focused on logistics, raw materials, regulatory procedures and digital payments, while a proposed BRICS logistics framework could improve cross-border supply-chain resilience and efficiency.
  
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• India prioritises textiles to help drive trade with Russia to $100 bn

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  Piyush Goyal said India has put textiles among five focus areas to lift India-Russia trade to $100 billion by 2030, with a $50 billion two-way investment aim.
  The plan means adding $40 billion from a $60 billion base in four years, requiring more than double-digit annual growth.
  Exporters are being asked to flag payment, logistics, certification, standards and visa barriers.
  
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• How Bangladesh’s yarn curbs exposed sharp industry fault lines

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  Bangladesh’s NBR has tightened duty-free 10–30 count cotton yarn imports under the bond facility for export-oriented readymade garment factories.
  Spinners say the move will lift demand for local yarn, revive mills, boost value addition, conserve foreign currency and support jobs.
  BGMEA and BKMEA warn bank guarantees may raise costs, disrupt shipments and weaken garment export competitiveness.
  
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• China's T&A exports inch up 3.1% to $203 bn in Jan–Aug 2026

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  China’s textile and apparel exports rose 3.05 per cent YoY to $203.308 billion in January-August 2026, GACC data show.
  Garments and accessories shipments inched up 2.5 per cent, while textile products rose 3.7 per cent.
  Imports of textile yarns and fabrics increased 20.6 per cent to $7.709 billion as mills replenished raw materials.
  
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• Can Vietnam’s T&A sector close its supply chain gap?

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  Vietnam’s textile and apparel exports rose 1.7 per cent YoY to $22.2 billion in H1 2026, but heavy import dependence for raw materials remains a key vulnerability.The industry is focusing on localisation, productivity, traceability, digitalisation and green manufacturing to strengthen supply-chain resilience, meet rules-of-origin requirements and sustain competitiveness in global markets.
  
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• Cambodia pushes digital trade as e-commerce revenue set to hit $1.8 bn

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  Cambodia is strengthening its digital trade ecosystem as e-commerce revenue is projected to rise from $1.1 billion in 2025 to $1.8 billion by 2029.The government is focusing on digital infrastructure, regulatory reforms and market access, while expanding CambodiaTrade.com to help MSMEs, rural entrepreneurs and women-led businesses reach digital markets.
  
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• BASF Durasorb technology goes live at Cheniere LNG facility

  13-09-2026 16:23 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  BASF said Cheniere has commissioned Durasorb LNG MAX at its Corpus Christi LNG facility in Texas, across multiple liquefaction trains.
  The single-unit adsorption technology removes trace contaminants and water to help prevent freeze-outs and downtime in LNG operations.
  Cheniere aims to finish remaining trains by end-2027, with BASF providing adsorbents, modelling tools and technical support.
  
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• Prabal Gurung Frees Women From the Constraints of Corsetry for Spring 2027

  13-09-2026 04:17 via fashionista.com
  At the heart of Prabal Gurung’s Spring 2027 collection, entitled “Ray of Light,” lies a sense of freedom. “Not freedom as a slogan or anything like that, freedom to inhabit your body and to have a sovereignty over it,” Gurung told Fashionista backstage ahead of his runway show on Saturday. This season, the designer is freeing the Prabal Gurung woman from a corset’s constriction in favor of gauzy gowns and loose-fitting cotton sateen dresses.
  For Spring 2027, t
  
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• At Tibi's Spring 2027 Show, Dolly Parton's Spirit Lives On

  13-09-2026 04:07 via fashionista.com
  For Spring 2027, Tibi Founder and Creative Director Amy Smilovic traveled south for inspiration — to Nashville, specifically. She didn’t go the predictable route (think: cowboy hats and chaps), though; rather, the designer wanted to observe “people who were really comfortable dressing like outsiders but not caring,” she told Fashionista backstage ahead of the show. “Then, we realized once we got to Nashville that we were the outsiders, which set up a really interest
  
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• Altuzarra Gets a 'Vibe Shift,' Plays With Gender Codes for Spring 2027

  12-09-2026 22:47 via fashionista.com
  At Altuzarra’s Spring 2027 show, held Saturday morning at the historic Woolworth Building in lower Manhattan, the book waiting for guests on their seats (a longstanding NYFW tradition for the brand) was “Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959–1968” by Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett. Casa Susanna, a retreat in the Catskills, was also the subject of a recent Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition that caught the attention of Joseph
  
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• Jamie Haller Makes Her New York Fashion Week Debut

  12-09-2026 22:22 via fashionista.com
  Jamie Haller didn’t need a New York Fashion Week presence, or the approval of establishments like the CFDA, to build a cult following around her timeless, quietly stylish (and comfortable) Italian-made footwear, which she did years ago all the way from Los Angeles. But after launching apparel (which she’d previously designed for other brands) in 2024, the establishment approached.
  Haller is part of the 2026 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, and thus made the trip to New York for her first fas
  
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• Simkhai Plays With Primary Colors, 'Jelly'-Coated Denim and Elaborate Lace Gowns for Spring 2027

  12-09-2026 17:10 via fashionista.com
  For Jonathan Simkhai, looking toward the future and celebrating innovation doesn’t necessarily mean leaving the past behind. The designer, who debuted his Spring 2027 collection on Friday at the Phillips auction house on Park Ave., challenged his team to “use new materials and new ways to take them forward” this season. But he also turned to vintage references as sources of inspiration, he told Fashionista in a post-show backstage interview. “It’s looking back, but
  
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• Only Kim Shui Would Hold a Peacock-Inspired Show in an Alleyway

  12-09-2026 05:52 via fashionista.com
  Last season, Kim Shui staged her New York Fashion Week show on a boat ride along the Hudson River. This time around, she brought showgoers to a Manhattan alleyway. Clearly, those are two very different settings (one of which has more rats), but both are iconic representations of New York City.
  For her Spring 2027 collection, Shui drew inspiration from various layers of performance. As she told Fashionista backstage after the show, “Being in New York, using the street as the runway, is perf
  
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• A Haunting Marilyn Monroe Quote Inspired Christian Cowan for Spring 2027

  12-09-2026 03:37 via fashionista.com
  In July 1962, Marilyn Monroe said in an interview with Life Magazine, “People I like. The public scares me.” That haunting sentiment sparked the idea behind Christian Cowan’s Spring 2027 collection, which the designer unveiled Friday afternoon at New York City’s The Glasshouse.
  “I thought that quote summarized the relationship of glamorous icons with the media and the darkness, but also the beauty of interpersonal connection,” Cowan told Fashionista backstage
  
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• Jane Wade Is Still Outside for Spring 2027

  12-09-2026 03:32 via fashionista.com
  Building upon Jane Wade’s Fall 2026 collection, which translated the brand’s corporate-core aesthetic into an outdoorsy retreat, the designer is opting to spend some more time basking in the sun for Spring 2027.
  “Last season, we were hiking the Great Mount expedition to ‘The Summit,’ and this season, that glacial melt is trickling off, running down through waterfall and into the creek for ‘The Riverbed’,” Wade told Fashionista at her Brooklyn studi
  
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• Will AGOA’s 2028 deadline limit Africa’s apparel breakthrough?

  12-09-2026 00:39 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  The US has extended duty-free apparel access for Sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti, with AGOA, HOPE and HELP running through December 31, 2028.
  US buyers gain certainty for 2027–2028 orders, but the two-year window and modest sourcing base remain constraints.
  USTR reported about $1.1 billion in AGOA apparel imports in 2023; Haitian textiles and apparel under CBERA were about $590 million in 2024.
  
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• US' Corteva, Globachem launch 50/50 crop protection joint venture

  12-09-2026 00:39 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  Corteva and Belgium's Globachem have agreed to create a 50:50 joint venture for new formulated crop protection solutions.
  The independently run JV will use late-pipeline to commercial-stage technologies for Europe and the Americas, supporting future crop-input supply.
  Products are expected in the early 2030s, with closing targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026 after regulatory approvals.
  
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• Fashion must count 80% of fibre; but can it prove where it comes from?

  12-09-2026 00:39 via fibre2fashion.com
  
  From 2027, Action Cohort brands and retailers must set targets across priority materials covering at least 80 per cent of their portfolio.
  TexPro shows import exposure in raw cotton, raw wool, viscose and polyester staple is concentrated in a few origins.
  Raw-material origin was unknown for 76 per cent of cotton, 82 per cent of polyester, 87 per cent of nylon and 82 per cent of viscose.
  
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