‘Sad Beige’ Has Taken Over Baby Gear, Clothing, Décor – The Inside Story of Adele’s Vegas Wardrobe – She Was In the CIA. Now She Makes Pyjamas for the Royals
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Today the editorial Team of TextileFuture is presenting to you three items, these appeared before in the Wall Street Journal.
The first feature gives you a nice insight how changes are made “In colour in Baby Gear, Clothing and Décor”
The second item is entitled “The Inside Story of Adele’s Vegas Wardrobe”. It is well written, and decorated with some very nice captions. The author has also interviewed the singer.
The third feature has the provocative title “She Was In the CIA. Now She Makes Pyjamas for the Royals”. It presents an insight of the CIA and why the former agent is making pyjamas for the Royals.
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Here starts the first feature:
Parents are gravitating toward neutral hues that match their minimalist tastes; ‘I don’t think many kids’ favourite colour is beige’
Nov. 16, 2022
By guest author Chavie Lieber from the Wall Street Magazine
Krissy Kyne, a 27-year-old makeup artist in San Antonio, is giving birth to a baby boy this week. The room waiting for him at home is neither blue nor pink, but beige.
It has a light-colored wood crib, a woven jute rug, a latte-hued changing pad and a cream ottoman, with oatmeal throw pillows and camel muslin blankets strewn about. Ms. Kyne said her mother-in-law told her her taste for neutrals looked “sterile,” but she has committed to the aesthetic, stocking drawers with beige onesies, beige sweatsuits and beige socks.
Earlier this year, Baby Gap created a designated beige section inside some stores after researching market trends, according to the brand’s head designer, Carolyn Koziak. A new line from Walmart, Easy Peasy, includes a lot of beige, too. According to Etsy, searches for beige kids clothes jumped 67 % in the past 12 months compared with the previous period.
“It seems to be marketing this fantasy that if I buy neutrals, my children will also be neutral, calm and quiet,” said Ms. DeRoche, the TikTok user, who lives in Petersburg, Va.
Most children’s companies still sell lots of toys and clothes in bright and inviting primary colors. “It’s important to expose kids to learning colors to help them with their visual perception,” said Ann-Louise Lockhart, a pediatric psychologist in San Antonio. “Having variety is important for brain development.”
Amanda Gummer, a neuropsychologist and children’s play expert in Britain, said there isn’t evidence that colorless toys stunt developmental milestones. Still, Dr. Gummer said, “the motivation of having an Instagrammable house and not letting kids explore and make a mess worries me. I don’t think many kids’ favorite color is beige.”
Ms. Atkin said her children can get their colour fix elsewhere. “My son will go to indoor gymnasiums, play centres, museums, and he gets covered in slime and goo, and colour and glitter,” she said. “We do that outside of our house, and then we get to come home to a nice, calm, clean environment.”
Other parents noted the pacifying nature of neutrals. “Brown and beige make me feel calmer,” said Maddie Berna, a photographer and mother of two in central California. “I personally don’t like super bright colors, and they do wear that sometimes, but it’s annoying to see all the time.”
Ms. Berna’s mother, Ashley Durham, isn’t a fan.
“All of Ellie’s bows are the same kind of beige and I would like her to wear something that sticks out more,” she said, referring to her 15-month-old granddaughter. “I do try to buy them brighter colour clothing. I just never see them in it.”
Amanda Gummer, a neuropsychologist and children’s play expert in Britain, said there isn’t evidence that colorless toys stunt developmental milestones. Still, Dr. Gummer said, “the motivation of having an Instagrammable house and not letting kids explore and make a mess worries me. I don’t think many kids’ favorite color is beige.”
Ms. Atkin said her children can get their color fix elsewhere. “My son will go to indoor gymnasiums, play centers, museums, and he gets covered in slime and goo, and color and glitter,” she said. “We do that outside of our house, and then we get to come home to a nice, calm, clean environment.”
Other parents noted the pacifying nature of neutrals. “Brown and beige make me feel calmer,” said Maddie Berna, a photographer and mother of two in central California. “I personally don’t like super bright colors, and they do wear that sometimes, but it’s annoying to see all the time.”
Ms. Berna’s mother, Ashley Durham, isn’t a fan.
“All of Ellie’s bows are the same kind of beige and I would like her to wear something that sticks out more,” she said, referring to her 15-month-old granddaughter. “I do try to buy them brighter color clothing. I just never see them in it.”
Naomi Coe, a California-based interior designer specializing in kid’s rooms, said she experienced an influx of beige requests during the pandemic, when many parents were spending more time at home.
“Neutral is going to give you calm, serene, homey, cozy,” she said. “I’ve noticed a shift where people are after that feeling more.”
Laura Roso Vidrequin, founder of secondhand kids-clothing marketplace Kids O’Clock in London, said beige products sell three times as fast as other colors on the site—perhaps because they are gender-neutral, she said, hence easy to pass down.
Elizabeth Robles Jimenez, a mother of four in Downey, Calif., said she bought plenty of pink and princessy products for her first three daughters before settling on beige décor and wooden toys for her 2-year-old, Ava.
“I think whites and creams give her an opportunity to discover her own self and not have the mentality that because she’s a girl, she needs all pink,” Ms. Robles Jimenez said.
Mushie, a startup that makes pacifiers, bibs and stacking cups in beige hues, has seen double-digit growth this year, according to its chief executive, Levi Feigenson. Moms cited the labels Oat, Soor Ploom, the Simple Folk, Tiny Cottons, Jamie Kay, Nora Lee, Rylee + Cru as others with an abundance of beige products.
“When I started my company [over 10] years ago, you couldn’t get a baby or child garment in a neutral colour unless you went to Europe,” said Marissa Buick, the Brooklyn founder of kidswear brand Soor Ploom. Her colour choices reflect ones “you won’t find in a shop, but are in nature,” she said.
Here is the start of the second feature:
The Inside Story of Adele’s Vegas Wardrobe
The singer takes Caesars in a new look each weekend. Jamie Mizrahi, one of Hollywood’s best-connected stylists, is behind the scenes.
By Derek Blasberg | Photography by Raven B. Varona
Nov. 19, 2022
“ONE OF ADELE’S SUPERPOWERS is the ability to give you déjà vu in the right way,” says Jamie Mizrahi.
The L.A.-based celebrity stylist could be talking about Adele’s musical gift, but she’s actually discussing creating looks for the singer’s Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which opened last night. (Adele is performing in the same space Celine Dion once had hers.) Along with Lorraine Schwartz jewelry, the superstar wore a silk velvet column gown with a bateau neckline and a drop waist sash with a gold buckle and pavé crystals, designed especially for her by Daniel Roseberry for Schiaparelli Haute Couture. “Even when she does something new or modern, it feels like the same Adele you first fell in love with,” says Mizrahi. “That’s the look we’re going for.”
“Even when she does something new or modern, it feels like the same Adele you first fell in love with,” says Jamie Mizrahi (pictured in her home office in Los Angeles), who is styling Adele for her Las Vegas residency. “That’s the look we’re going for.”Photo: Raven B. Varona
In January, Adele shocked her fans by canceling the opening night of her first-ever residency, Weekends with Adele, by posting a candid video the day before the event with tears in her eyes, saying Covid-related delays made her realize that the show just wasn’t ready.
In the past 10 months, she’s rejiggered much of the show, including the fashion. Originally, the plan was to incorporate many looks: “Imagine a Formula 1 pit stop, but with couture—and diamonds,” was Mizrahi’s first brief. But Adele will now wear a single frock for both her Friday and Saturday performances, changing her outfit every weekend. After the singer’s Hyde Park shows in London in July, in which she wore Schiaparelli couture one night and custom Louis Vuitton the next, Mizrahi says, “we realized that it was more authentic to her to stay in one look” per weekend in Vegas. So far, Mizrahi has commissioned 20 custom gowns for Adele, “which she’ll wear for one weekend [each] and then they’ll be archived.” (The residency is set to run until March 2023.)
A sketch of Adele’s opening-night look, a silk velvet column gown with a bateau neckline and a drop waist sash with a gold buckle and pavé crystals, designed especially for her by Daniel Roseberry for Schiaparelli Haute Couture.Photo: Courtesy of Schiaparelli
With its delayed debut and Adele’s new record, 30, still making headlines (the album’s video for the single, “I Drink Wine,” came out last month), this is a high-stakes role for Mizrahi. Tickets for the show sold out almost immediately and some are currently going for over twenty thousand dollars on resale sites.
Mizrahi is known in fashion circles for styling her friends and celebrity clients, including Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Nicole Richie, Taylour Paige and Billie Lourd. Last year, she was announced as a West Coast advisor to Louis Vuitton. She’d bonded with Nicolas Ghesquière, artistic director of the brand’s women’s collections, at a small dinner party at the Chateau Marmont. “We stayed up talking and laughing all night,” Mizrahi remembers.
“You could say it was a crush at first sight,” Ghesquière says. “Jamie has such a vibrant sense of humor, and we had an instant connection.”
Mizrahi, 34, was raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, and graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. As a student, she spent a summer interning at the Albright Fashion Library in New York City, a renowned archive of some of fashion’s hardest-to-find pieces. “Stylists come in and pull clothes for movies, appearances, commercials, music videos, you name it—that’s how I got introduced to what styling was,” Mizrahi says.
Eleven years ago, Mizrahi moved to L.A. and began working with other celebrity stylists, including Petra Flannery and Simone Harouche (with whom she co-founded the Kit Undergarments line in 2018). Her big break on her own was styling Eva Mendes for 2012’s Place Beyond the Pines press tour.
“Working with Jamie is like sitting on the floor of your closet going through magazines with your best friend,” Richie says. “There is an ease, familiarity and mutual love and humor for fashion.” Mizrahi married Nico Mizrahi, a hedge fund manager, in 2016, and has two children, 4-year-old Yale and 2-year-old Cy.
Mizrahi met Adele about four years ago through Richie. (At the time, Richie and Adele were next-door neighbours in L.A.) As the singer was working on 30, Mizrahi says Adele reached out and asked if she would style her for the album rollout.
“Working with Jamie [Mizrahi] is like sitting on the floor of your closet going through magazines with your best friend.” — Nicole Richie
The Vegas residency has become their pièce de résistance. Adele’s first notes for Vegas focused on Sin City’s contribution to entertainment, including the Rat Pack, Mizrahi says. In the revamped show, she’s melding Vegas’s old-school swagger with a more timeless, classic feeling. “I interpret that conversation and typically have some sketches done and then bring them back and we discuss them,” she explains.
“Working with a stylist is an intimate experience, and it didn’t hurt that we loved spending time together,” says Katy Perry, who’s hired Mizrahi to help her put together some of her more memorable looks. “I’ll still never live down the time she was pregnant—and I hit her in the face with my Versace wings at the Met [Gala]! I think it’s turned into our personal meme.”
WSJ. spoke to Mizrahi from Las Vegas in between fittings with Adele:
Derek Blasberg: Everyone knows Adele is incredibly serious when it comes to her music. But one of the most alluring things about her is her sense of humor. Is she funny when you’re working together?
Jamie Mizrahi: Are you kidding? All she does is make me laugh.
DB: When was the last time she really had you howling?
JM: The music video that we just did together for her song “I Drink Wine.” It involved this very intricate set. There was water. There were gowns. I was on the floor drying a dress with a hair dryer that she then had to put back on. It’s camp and it’s incredible and I wasn’t prepared for the day we had in store—but we laughed our asses off and I loved every single second of it.
DB: Adele is famous for performing in a specific look—typically a black gown to the floor. When you had time to revisit the style for this show, what were you looking for?
JM: Black gowns. All black. Still. Silhouettes that work for her body type. We’re open to embellishment and accents of color, but everything will be a black gown to the floor, except special shows, like New Year’s Eve.
DB: Now that the looks are changing every weekend, have you planned as far as New Year’s Eve?
JM: We haven’t gotten that far yet. But that’s a new element to the residency that I find exciting. The constant newness. One of the coolest parts about this new concept is that it’s ever changing and we will have the opportunity to work with more designers, and we can change our mind and mix things up. Typically, on a tour, you commission costumes and you’re sort of obliged to stick with them to the end of the tour. Here we have some flexibility, and we think that will be fun.
DB: What are the physical requirements for these garments?
JM: She’s going to be barefoot. Or, actually, we have socks if she wants them. So [the dress] needs to be to the floor. She needs to be able to move, so there needs to be a corset but one that stretches enough to breathe easily. No capes, no gloves. What’s important is that she can sing!
Sketches of Lorraine Schwartz jewellery designs for Adele, including gold triple hoops with 9.32 carats of diamonds and a 25-carat double pear-shape ring that she wore onstage for the opening night of the Las Vegas residency.Photo: Courtesy of Lorraine Schwartz
DB: I know you’ve commissioned 20 dresses. Can you tell me from whom?
JM: To date, I’ve worked with Versace, Loewe, Schiaparelli and Louis Vuitton on custom looks, and…newer, younger designers too, like Julien [Dossena] at Paco Rabanne, Jack [McCollough] and Lazaro [Hernandez at Proenza Schouler] and Harris Reed, who was just appointed creative director at Nina Ricci.
DB: What about the glam? Will Adele do her famous wing-tipped eyeliner?
JM: Of course! Do you think she wouldn’t?! [Makeup artist] Anthony Nguyen has mastered her winged eye. No one can move in the room when he’s doing it. It’s a very precise, perfect line. I’ve never seen someone do it like that.
DB: As the new album has rolled out, much of the media conversation revolved around “the new Adele.” Was that a part of the narrative you were constructing with the styling?
“There is an ease, familiarity and mutual love and humor for fashion,” says Nicole Richie, pictured in a vintage Dior dress at the 2021 Baby2Baby Gala, of working with Mizrahi. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage
JM: I don’t think she thinks of it as the new Adele. She’s just her, and she’s just being authentic like she is…. When dressing anyone, I always look at what silhouettes work best for their body. We created looks that made her feel beautiful and confident.
DB: Eva Mendes gave you your first big break, followed by Britney Spears. Are you still in touch with Britney?
JM: Not for a minute, but I love watching her do all the things. I was a massive Britney Spears fan growing up. I was starstruck when I began working with her, and so were all of my friends! She was always very clear and direct about her [fashion] choices with very little regret. She never chased the fashion trends and was always herself. She was also incredibly kind and was a pleasure to work with.
DB: What’s the best piece of career advice you ever received?
JM: Stay in your own lane, and by that I mean stay on your own path and stop looking at what everyone else is doing because it will distract you.
Pictured (L-R): Adele and Oprah Winfrey.
Photo Credit: Harpo Productions/Photographer: Joe Pugliese
Mizrahi styled Adele in a white suit by Christopher John Rogers for an interview with Oprah before the release of her fourth album, ‘30,’ in 2021.Photo: Harpo Productions/Photographer: Joe Pugliese
DB: What’s the biggest misconception about being a stylist?
JM: That it’s just choosing clothes for people to wear. In actuality, it’s so much more. Of course, there’s the creative side, which involves incorporating overall vision, creative briefs, collaborating with designers, dealing with measurements, fit. But then there’s the business side: managing budgets, hiring assistants, seamstresses, invoicing. And then there’s the social side, which entails fostering relationships with the brands, designers, clients, PR and brand directors, making sure that you can get that one sample that’s in London on a shoot the day before it’s needed. Also, it’s not just about picking out the most flattering outfit. Part of my job is to look at the larger picture of my clients’ careers. I have to take into account what their goals are. Do they want to be taken more seriously in their industry? Do they want to be less sexualized? Are they looking to step into a more mature phase of their life or looking for someone to help them take risks? Do they want a specific type of role that they haven’t gotten because they are looked at in a certain light?
My job is helping present my clients to the world. How you choose to dress is a clear statement of how you want people to view you—and shifting that perspective can change your whole career. And that’s a business in itself.
“When dressing anyone, I always look at what silhouettes work best for their body. We created looks that made [Adele] feel beautiful and confident.”— Jamie Mizrahi
DB: What’s the best part of the job? And the worst part?
JM: The best part is the creative. The idea of working with talent, creating characters, introducing new designers, working with established designers. I love getting to re-create someone’s look and push boundaries. The worst part is handling fine jewellery!
DB: Have you ever had any major blunders?
JM: When I first started out, I dressed someone for a huge award show and I pulled jewelry from two designers and had her wear both brands. I didn’t know that was a major no-no. Let’s just say I’ll never do that again.
DB: In addition to Eva and Britney, you work with Nicole [Richie], Katy [Perry], Ariana [Grande], Riley Keough. Is there a similarity in the way these women like to work?
JM: Everyone has a beyond-different way of working. There are some people who want to go on Vogue[‘s website] and look at every show and send the exact looks they want. Then there are some people who want me to bring 10 racks of clothes and try every single one on. Then there are some people who, after I’ve worked with them for long enough, I can show up with one dress and they’re like, “OK!”
DB: Who’s your easiest client?
JM: Do I have to answer that?
DB: Who’s your hardest client?
JM: No!
Here starts the last feature:
She Was In the CIA. Now She Makes Pyjamas for the Royals
Emily Hikade’s Petite Plume pyjamas have been worn by the Clooney twins and Prince George. But she launched the brand while undercover
Emily Hikade’s Petite Plume pajamas have been worn by the Clooney twins and Prince George. But she launched the brand while undercover.
Emily Hikade launched her pajama brand while working as a CIA case officer in East Africa.
By Lane Florsheim, / Photography by Lyndon French for WSJ. Magazine
Nov. 17, 2022
Nine years ago, Emily Hikade was flying to meet with an agent affiliated with a known terrorist group for her job as a case officer at the CIA. Suddenly, the single-prop plane hit a storm. The plane started spinning sideways, careening toward the water. She says she thought it was the end.
“All I can see is the faces of my kids,” says Ms. Hikade, a 45-year-old mother of four sons. “My youngest wasn’t even a year old and I thought, they’re going to grow up without a mom.”
By that time Ms. Hikade says she had spent over a decade at the agency, working in nine different countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, spotting and recruiting agents with secret information. But after her near-death experience, she wanted out.
The CIA declined to comment. Ms. Hikade provided her own details of her time with the agency.
Ms. Hikade says she had long kept a running list of business ideas for life after the CIA, among them a children’s pajamas line inspired by cotton ones she saw when she lived in France. So in 2015, she launched Petite Plume while still working with the CIA.
“It was this whole idea of home. The idea of wearing pajamas, it was something so romantic in my head,” she says. “Because you’re always wearing your pajamas when you’re home and when you’re safe.”
Over the past seven years, Ms. Hikade has grown the company into a celebrity favorite. Prince George, then 2, wore a set of the brand’s light-blue gingham pajamas to meet President Obama in 2016. George and Amal Clooney bought sets for their twins. For the last three years, Kevin Hart and his family have posed in matching Petite Plume pajamas during the holidays. Recently, Gwyneth Paltrow wore one of the brand’s tartan robes on Goop’s Instagram account. Petite Plume added adult sizes in 2017.
Pajama sets sell through Nordstrom, Maisonette and elsewhere, with kids’ sizes mostly in the USD 50 range and going up to USD 148 for silk offerings. Adult versions retail for USD 84 to USD 295.
Ms. Hikade credits her time at the CIA with giving her business savvy. She says that both jobs require a high level of risk management, whether it’s executing an operation or navigating a young company through the pandemic.
“Not everything goes according to plan, and often you need to make quick decisions and adjust,” she says. “To be successful at both jobs, you need a healthy amount of resilience.”
Ms. Hikade says she was based in East Africa when she launched Petite Plume, flying into war zones and meeting with affiliates of terrorist organizations for her day job and working on the pajama line during the evenings and at night after she put her kids to bed.
Living overseas meant dealing with some unconventional issues for a startup founder, such as the internet going down for a week after the anchor of a ship destroyed an undersea cable. Asked if she didn’t have a James Bond-esque gadget for backup Wi-Fi, Ms. Hikade laughed: “The U.S. taxpayer does not want to pay us to use our James Bond devices for our outside hustles.”
As a teenager in Stevens Point, Wis., Ms. Hikade says she begged her parents to let her do an overseas exchange program. Studying in France, which she did for a summer in high school and a semester in college, planted the original seed for Petite Plume. She immediately gravitated toward the striped cotton kids’ pajamas that were available in grocery stores.
After graduating from Notre Dame in 1999, she headed off for a brief stint at the White House, working nights as a waitress at Union Station.
She didn’t love her time at the White House. “Every question was, ‘Are you a Democrat or a Republican?’” she recalls. Eventually, she moved to the State Department, where “we were all working for the same team.” She remembers the first time Secretary of State Colin Powell came in. “He said, ‘Tell me where that Google machine is.’” She says she gave Mr. Powell his first lesson on what Gmail and Google were.
At first, Ms. Hikade told no one when she began working for the CIA. A few years later, when she was about to be deployed overseas, she told her parents—but came to regret placing the burden of her secret on other people, she says.
‘I’ve met terrorists, nefarious people. And it all sounds really glamorous, and then you have kids, and you realize there are little people who count on you.’
In 2001, she met her husband, Christopher, who’s also a former CIA officer, at a concert where one of their co-workers was playing in a band. “They say when you walk in your first day, ‘Hey, look around, it’s the best dating network,” she says. “‘Everyone’s been drug-tested and polygraphed, and everyone likes to travel.’” They married in 2004.
When she had her first child four years later, Ms. Hikade was shocked by how vulnerable she suddenly felt. “I was flipping fearless when I was in a war zone, I didn’t care, it was just me,” she says. “And then once I had kids, I was like, I can’t do this.” She recounts a time when she wanted to be at home to tuck her kids into bed and had serious concerns that the person she was meeting was wearing a suicide vest.
Something similar had happened to a friend and colleague—a mom of three—who died during a meeting with an al Qaeda operative who was wearing one, she says.
“I’ve done some amazing things. I’ve met terrorists, nefarious people. And it all sounds really glamorous, and then you have kids, and you realize there are little people who count on you,” says Ms. Hikade. Today the Hikades live in a suburb of Chicago with their four boys: Camden, now 14; Beckett, 11; Shaw, 10; and Gable, 6.
Until recently, her sons didn’t know their mom and dad had been CIA officers. They’d grown up being told they were diplomats.
Now, with Petite Plume, Ms. Hikade has 13 full-time employees in Chicago and New York, with annual revenues in the eight figures, she says. Petite Plume is closely held, and Ms. Hikade declined to provide more specific financials.
“What made me a good agency officer makes me a good CEO,” says Ms. Hikade. But in some ways, she has found the business world to be tougher than her work in the field. She recalls how after one promising meeting with potential investors, she had an attorney read the contract they had given her.
“They threw in stuff where they were totally trying to screw me,” she says. “Here I am, sitting across the table with them saying everything right and thinking, ‘Oh, she’s not going to be smart enough to check the documents.’”
As a result, Ms. Hikade says she declined outside funding. Of the experience, she says, “at least I knew where I stood with al Qaeda.”
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September 2022 compared with August 2022 Volume of retail trade up by 0.4 % in both the Euro Area and the EU https://textile-future.com/archives/99450
Security and defence: EU boosts action against cyber threats and to allow armed forces to move faster and better across borders https://textile-future.com/archives/99693
Autumn 2022 Economic Forecast: The EU economy at a turning point https://textile-future.com/archives/99700
InvestEU: commitments signed at COP27 to support four funds investing in the green transition https://textile-future.com/archives/99731
Aviation: First General Assembly of the Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation mobilises entire aeronautic ecosystem for hydrogen and electric aviation https://textile-future.com/archives/99867
COP27: EU and Egypt step up cooperation on the clean energy transition https://textile-future.com/archives/99993
Indo-Pacific: EU and Australia Leaders meet in Bali https://textile-future.com/archives/100006
Making Schengen stronger: Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia are ready to fully participate in the Schengen area https://textile-future.com/archives/100010
Events
22nd International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber https://textile-future.com/archives/99734
Last chance to secure your virtual place at the Textile Exchange Conference 2022 With our annual conference taking place next week, secure your place to attend virtually and make sure not to miss the learnings we’ll be unpacking and expanding on together. https://textile-future.com/archives/99852
FILTREX™ 2022 Closes After a Successful Edition https://textile-future.com/archives/99894
Officina39 shares its plus at Bangladesh Denim Expo https://textile-future.com/archives/99899
ITME INDIA 2022 https://textile-future.com/archives/99918
Monforts at ITME 2022, as Indian textile market booms https://textile-future.com/archives/99982
Hong Kong
Mainland China’s Catalogue of Encouraged Industries for Foreign Investment (2022 Edition) will come into force on January 1, 2023, and other News https://textile-future.com/archives/99858
Investment
UBS Year Ahead 2023: A year of inflections https://textile-future.com/archives/100068
Personalities
Changes to the GF Board of Directors https://textile-future.com/archives/100034
New HR Managing Leadership at Adecco Group Switzerland https://textile-future.com/archives/100044
Retailing
Watch: Retail’s Christmas ads 2022, from Tesco to Asda https://textile-future.com/archives/99841
Science
Empa’s Zukunftsfonds – Funding ambitious research – A chip to replace animal testing https://textile-future.com/archives/100058
ASF Research Press Conference 2022: Small but powerful – microorganisms contribute to greater sustainability at BASF https://textile-future.com/archives/100065
Switzerland
Swiss Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin pays working visit to Spain https://textile-future.com/archives/99722
Switzerland and Turkey sign bilateral agreement on cultural property https://textile-future.com/archives/99938
President of Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis travels to Malta and Francophonie Summit in Djerba https://textile-future.com/archives/99946
Swiss Federal Council adopts dispatch on amendment of DTA with Tajikistan https://textile-future.com/archives/99996
Swiss Federal Council appoints Tamara Pfammatter as Director of the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) https://textile-future.com/archives/99999
Laura Melusine Baudenbacher appointed President of the Competition Commission of Switzerland https://textile-future.com/archives/100002
Swiss State Secretary Martina Hirayama pays a working visit to Austria https://textile-future.com/archives/100014
Worldbank
World Bank Group Events for Nov. 8, 2022 at COP27 https://textile-future.com/archives/99419
Women
Violence against women and domestic violence: suggestions published for Swiss implementation of Istanbul Convention https://textile-future.com/archives/99967
Turkmenistan
Trade delegation follows Monforts success in Turkmenistan https://textile-future.com/archives/99813
WTO
Trade must be a cornerstone of climate action, urges World Trade Report released at COP27 https://textile-future.com/archives/99422
Members hold informal talks on WTO reform https://textile-future.com/archives/99821