Over the past few days the fashion world looked with great interest to Istanbul.

H&M is proud to announce that its autumn 2011 designer collaboration will be with one of the world’s most legendary fashion brands, Versace. Designed by its creative director Donatella Versace, the exclusive collection will look back to the vibrant heritage of the brand, full of leather, print, colour and exuberance in exclusive materials at fantastic H&M prices. The collection will include ranges for women, men and selected pieces for the home. It will be available from 17 November in around 300 stores worldwide, as well as on-line. In addition, Donatella Versace has also designed a pre-spring collection for H&M which will be exclusively available in countries with H&M on-line sales from January 19, 2012. 

CASHMERE WORLD – the trade fair for the global cashmere industry – will unveil its first-ever colour trends developed exclusively for cashmere at the forthcoming fair in Beijing, 23 - 25 November 2010. 

As U.S. negotiators open the seventh round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)  trade negotiations in Vietnam, the U.S. position on textile and apparel import issues is set to to take shape. 

Pakistan's ongoing flood crisis has hit the country's textile and clothing industry hard, battering cotton crops and local infrastructure.

Nike has released a new Environmental Apparel Design Tool designed to fast-track sustainable innovation among clothing companies.

Spanish fashion logistics firm Logisfashion has set its sights on Vietnam. Specializing in third-party logistics services for the fashion industry, the company is finalizing the details of an operations center to be opened in 2011 in Vietnam, with a view to expanding its business in Asia, the Modaes.es fashion industry portal reports.