The London concept boutique launched a capsule by Central Saint Martins designer Martina Spetlova, who is working towards zero waste in her production and relies on refugee female artisans to make her textiles.

After launching in 20 cities, Beacon’s location based mobile customer communication app looks to expand both geographically and into new domains as small business retailers increasingly use the app.

​Macho, one of the highest selling underwear brands in India, is now expanding its product base to casuals and thermals as it experiences steady growth.

The RealSize application from MySize Inc. assists retailers with reducing consumer returns by the use of its cutting-edge apparel measurement technology.  

After French fashion house Louis Vuitton, luxury Italian brand Gucci is expanding into travel, with a new app which will highlight destinations that hold a special connection to the brand.

India’s leading digital payments and e-commerce firm has invested in MobiQuest Mobile Technologies to help merchants on its platform increase sales and revenues.

The recently launched company pioneers a new range of t-shirts that change their design and colour in sunlight.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have designed super-stretchy, strong fibres that are almost entirely composed of water, and could be used to make textiles, sensors and other materials.

Royal College of Art graduate Ryan Mario Yasin has invented a pleat system that allows clothes to adapt to growth spurts, perhaps the solution to parents' headache of spending money on clothes that kids quickly outgrow.

For the first time, Nike will use the Flyknit technology frequently utilized in its shoes to make a new kind of sports bra. The brand is already considering transferring the technology to other apparel items. 

C&A is planning to open a new logistics and distribution centre in Trnava, Slovakia in 2019, which together with a new IT system and RFID tracking is expected to revolutionise the clothing company.

The emerging, innovative British premium tights brand, available exclusively online, has asked its fans to define their skin tone in order to create the first "truly inclusive nude palette."

The online fashion website Pernia’s Pop-up Shop has launched “Sketch to Reality”, a new Augmented Reality online shopping facility.

German footwear brand Birkenstock has unveiled its new itinerant retail concept: the Birkenstock Box, created in partnership with top concept stores and designed to travel the world over.

UK-based Metail, a technology firm that specialises in ‘virtual’ try-on services, has raised £10 million from existing investors as it seeks to expand, to add men’s avatars to its service and to become profitable.