The Airports Authority of India is in the process of setting up a number of retail outlets in Chennai Airport including for fashion and beauty brands and aims to open them within the next few weeks.

The wedding-themed fashion exhibition Bridal Asia held its Mumbai edition from August 17 to 19. It will next take place in New Delhi from October 5 to 7 at the Hotel Ashok in Chanakyapuri.

Fashion and lifestyle exhibition Araaish recently hosted its Hyderabad edition. It will next take place in Mumbai on September 4 and in Dubai on September 7 to promote festive wear ahead of the upcoming wedding season. 

The textile value chain, particularly the cotton-based manufacturing value chain, has catched slowdown fever resulting in stagnancy or drop in domestic consumption, according to Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF).

The production of polyester fabric in the country’s largest man-made fabric hub of Surat has decreased by 40 per cent after the implementation of GST in 2016, according to a local textile committee.

Visa is critical of the Indian government’s decision to boost adoption of electronic payments by requiring banks and card payment networks to offer no-fee debit card transactions, a senior Visa executive said.

Designer Manish Malhotra will be opening the Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2019 with Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif as his showstopper.

​Ethnic womenswear brand Raisin has signed Bollywood actor Bhumi Pednekar as its brand ambassador. Bhumi will endorse the brand and help increase Raisin connect with consumers across India. 

MomzJoy has expanded its product selection and launched a baby and children’s wear line as well as a number of baby products as it continues to grow in the booming mother and baby market. 

The Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts will take a group of Indian businesses to Dubai for the Index International Fair’s Index Home which will run from September 17 to 19 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

The Confederation of All India Traders has called for a boycott of Chinese goods and asked for high customs tariffs after China recently supported Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council.

H&M is seeing its India sales increase with a reported 39% year-on-year jump to Rs 380 crore ($57 million) in the previous quarter. The business hopes for greater ease of doing business to aid its future expansion plans.

Amazon will formally unveil its largest global campus yet in Hyderabad next week with Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao as it also expands its largest India fulfilment centre in the area.

The Bengaluru-based online tailoring brand Binks is currently taking part in Y Combinator’s accelerator programme and aims to automate its pattern making to scale up operations.

The winner of the Circular Design Challenge, I Was A Sari, will make its Lakme Fashion Week debut on Thursday at the event’s Sustainable Fashion Day.