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How a garment goes from idea to store, step by step. · 98 entries
Weaving is the process of forming fabric by regularly interlacing two yarn systems: warp in the lengthwise direction and weft across the width. The construction results from warp preparation, shed formation, weft insertion and beat-up, and control of yarn delivery and fabric take-up.
Applications of AI in fashion use computational models to recognize attributes, retrieve knowledge, generate visualizations, and support decisions across creation, development, and commercialization. Their limits depend on the data, use context, evaluation, human oversight, and integration with the product workflow.
Fashion PLM is the structured management of the data, decisions, and workflows that follow a product and a collection from concept through post-launch. It connects tech packs, materials, costs, samples, approvals, suppliers, and versions so that every function works from a traceable product definition.
1 · MaterialsCotton
2 · ProcessesTextile spinning3 · ProcessesIndustrial weaving
4 · ProcessesIndustrial knitting
5 · ProcessesCollection planning
6 · ProcessesFashion creation and styling in the product cycle
7 · ProcessesFashion product development
8 · ProcessesGarment production pilot sample
9 · ProcessesFashion sourcing
10 · ProcessesApparel quality control
11 · ProcessesInitial Stock Allocation
12 · ProcessesSales and sell-out in fashion
A technical specification is the controlled information set that translates an approved fashion product into verifiable sampling and manufacturing requirements. It brings together drawings, materials, measurements, construction, tolerances, identification, labelling, comments and revision history; its content varies by category, company, market and stage.
Knitting is the process of forming fabric through series of intermeshed loops. It divides into weft knitting, in which yarn travels across the width and needles form loops in sequence, and warp knitting, in which parallel yarns feed needles that work simultaneously along the fabric length.
Fibres, yarns and fabrics: what garments are made of. · 33 entries
Cotton is the most widely used natural fiber in the global textile industry. Grown around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium), it is prized for comfort, breathability and versatility in apparel.
Twill is one of the three fundamental weave structures, recognizable by the diagonal ribs on its surface. Durable and substantial, it is the base structure behind denim, gabardine, and much of utilitarian apparel.
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from the fleece of sheep and other animals. Insulating and elastic, it is the basis of winter knitwear and tailoring.
Shredding can break and entangle fibres.
Recycled cotton →Source: https://cottonworks.com/cotton-sustainability/recycled-cotton/
Tweed is a wool fabric with a soft, open and flexible texture, usually more closely woven than homespun, and commonly made in plain, twill or herringbone structures. Colour effects may come from mixing dyed wool before spinning; composition, structure and finishing are still required to specify the actual cloth.
Lyocell is a regenerated cellulose fibre made by dissolving cellulose in an organic solvent and spinning the solution without forming cellulose derivatives. In fashion, it is a fibre input whose performance also depends on yarn, construction, and finishing.
Ways of making: sewing, pattern cutting, finishing and more. · 12 entries
Fashion technical drawing is a construction-oriented representation used to communicate a garment’s form, details, measurements and manufacturing decisions. In apparel development it connects with patternmaking, specifications, fitting, materials and production; it does not replace a complete tech pack or physical validation.
AQL inspection in apparel applies acceptance sampling to a lot of garments: a sample is examined under a decision rule to accept, reject, or continue sampling. AQL is a reference quality level expressed as a defective percentage; it is not a universal supplier grade or proof that every garment conforms.
Circular knitting is a fabric-forming technique in which needles arranged on a circular bed produce a continuous tubular knitted structure. The result depends on the interaction of yarn, needles, cylinder, feeding, structure and gauge; the same machine logic can serve open fabrics, separated pieces or seamless constructions.
Flat knitting forms knitted fabric on a weft-knitting machine with linear needle beds and a carriage that travels horizontally. The arrangement can shape panels and garment components during knitting; it is not the same as circular knitting, which forms a tube around a cylinder.
Garment patternmaking is the technique of turning measurements, proportions, and design intent into patterns used to cut and assemble a garment. It connects a block, flat pattern construction or draping with fabric information, production markings, fitting, alterations, and grading; the result is a testable development basis, not an automatic guarantee of fit.
Brands that help explain the Brazilian market. · 10 entries
Karsten is a Brazilian home-textile brand focused on bed, table, bath and home-decor textiles, headquartered in Blumenau, Santa Catarina. Its documented history begins in 1882, develops through an in-house spinning operation, and reaches a domestic product range that explicitly uses cotton, jacquard, combed-yarn and thread-count terminology.
FARM Rio is a Brazilian fashion brand born in Rio de Janeiro in 1997. Its identity combines print creation, Carioca cultural references, and a business that expanded from the local market to Brazilian stores and international locations, while the brand publishes information about its supply chain and social and environmental commitments.
Lojas Renner is a fashion retail brand within the Lojas Renner S.A. ecosystem, a group that describes its operation through physical stores and digital channels in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Its history combines fashion specialization, regional expansion, a multi-brand architecture and responsible-sourcing programs.
The institutional page states that the Group’s production is destined for Riachuelo’s physical and digital sales channels.
Riachuelo →Source: https://www.riachuelo.com.br/grupo-guararapes
C&A Brazil is the Brazilian fashion-retail operation of C&A: an internationally rooted brand present in the country since 1976, with a public assortment organized around apparel, jeans, footwear, beauty and plus-size categories. The entry separates global history, Brazilian operation, observed catalogue architecture and stated commitments.
Arezzo&Co was the fashion, footwear and accessories company that joined Grupo Soma in 2024 to create Azzas 2154. Its corporate path includes the 2007 merger between Arezzo and Schutz, the 2011 stock-market listing and a portfolio later organized into four business units.
Bodies, suppliers and companies that move the industry. · 11 entries
Alpargatas is a global company founded and headquartered in Brazil, with an operation centered on footwear brands and international distribution. Its B2B profile combines Havaianas, multichannel reach, manufacturing scale, and a documented post-consumer rubber recovery program.
Santista Têxtil is a Brazilian textile company whose institutional history starts on 29 October 1929 with Fábrica de Tecidos Tatuapé. Its business scope combines Jeanswear, producing fabrics for jeans, and Workwear, producing special fabrics for professional clothing; indigo denim and its twill construction are essential to understanding the company’s material specificity.
Cedro Textile is the editorial name for Companhia de Fiação e Tecidos Cedro e Cachoeira, a manufacturer whose institutional site presents a B2B portfolio of denim, twills and canvas fabrics for Jeanswear and Workwear. Its offer separates fashion fabrics from uniform, professional-protection and field applications; buying decisions should start with the article and its technical sheet.
IEMI's institutional page records that the company marked 40 years of history in 2025.
IEMI Market Intelligence →Source: https://iemi.com.br/iemi/
Vulcabras is a Brazilian athletic-footwear company that connects brand management, product development, manufacturing and distribution. The company reports producing sports brands since 1973, developing more than 800 new models each year, operating Northeast factories, developing footwear in Parobé and serving a commercial network in Brazil and South America.
SENAI CETIQT is the Center for Technology of the Chemical and Textile Industry, with a stated role in professional education, technological innovation, metrology, consulting, and research for textile, apparel, and chemical value chains.
Fairs, fashion weeks and dates on the calendar. · 8 entries
INSPIRAMAIS is a Brazilian materials and product-development event for footwear, apparel, costume jewellery, furniture and automotive upholstery. Its programme combines material launches, research, special projects, talks, workshops and business meetings.
Couromoda is a Brazilian professional trade fair focused on footwear, leather goods, accessories, and apparel, held in São Paulo. Its 2024 edition brought together 250 exhibitors in a compact format and connected fall/winter launches with retail buyers; organizers also stated an intention to hold two editions in 2025, without publishing dates or venues at that point.
FEBRATEX is a Brazilian professional trade fair focused on machinery, inputs, technologies and solutions for the textile and apparel industry. Its 2026 edition is announced for 18–21 August at Parque Vila Germânica in Blumenau, with programming organised across ten sectors.
São Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW) is a Brazilian fashion event organised through editions, with a history that begins in 1995 and adopts the current name in 2001. SPFW N58 shows how one edition combines dates, venues, curation, an honouree and brand narratives without turning those details into permanent rules for the event.
Brasil Eco Fashion Week (BEFW) is an annual sustainable-fashion event that, according to its organiser, brings education, runway shows, networking and entrepreneurship together in São Paulo, with free access open to the public. Its programme also includes a showroom, content sessions, material innovation and activities for entrepreneurs.
How the market splits: audience, price and category. · 4 entries
Ceará fashion chain. Ceará’s fashion chain connects textiles, apparel and footwear through spinning, weaving, knitting, finishing, trims, components, vocational training and finished-product manufacturing. The state description also records integration across the chain, more than 100,000 direct jobs, and a footwear-industry snapshot of approximately 57,000 formal jobs in 2019.
Santa Catarina textile cluster. Santa Catarina's textile cluster is best understood as an arrangement of activities spanning textiles, apparel, leather and footwear rather than as a single company. In FIESC's Competitiveness Atlas, the arrangement accounted for 12.1% of Santa Catarina's Gross Industrial Production Value in 2022.
The Agreste garment cluster is a Pernambuco apparel segment within the state’s local productive arrangement, centered on Caruaru, Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, and Toritama and extending to neighboring towns. Its history, formal concentration, and tax infrastructure place it within Brazil’s fashion supply chain.
Minas Gerais lingerie cluster. The Juruaia and Region Fashion and Lingerie Cluster is defined in a state legislative proposition as a cluster headquartered in Juruaia and comprising 14 municipalities. Its public scope combines lingerie production and commerce, textile-technology development, training, and market information; the municipality also announced an economic-development seminar focused on strengthening the intimate-apparel cluster.
Subjects uMode studies with people who run fashion. · 1 entries
Governing fashion context is uMode's name for a proposed relationship among systems of record, BrainHub, governance, and the Context Leader Track. The expression is not a product, technical standard, or recognized industry category, and no independent validation of its outcomes has been published.
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