Arabella’s Weekly Brief News During Mar.11th-Mar.15th
There was one thing thrilled happened for Arabella in the last week: Arabella Squad just finished visiting the Shanghai Intertextile exhibition! We gained a lot of latest material that our clients might be interested in!
Except this, we also kept exploring the latest trends for our customers. It seems like that there are so many extraordinary news we are about to share today. Grab a cup of coffee now and take a glance with us!
Fabrics
On Mar.6th, Amer Sports, acquired by Chinese Sports Brand ANTA, has released its annual report for 2023. With the popularity of Arc’teryx, the group gained 23% increase, while its annual revenue reaching $4.37 billion.
The success of Arc’teryx is tightly related to one of its windbreakers collections: Alpha SV, which made by the latest water-repellent fabrics GORE-TEX and empowered the products. Features with weightless and powerful water-resistant functions, its windbreakers rapidly dominates Chinese market.
The truth is, fabric technology has become the core competitiveness of outdoor windbreakers. Before the financial release of Amer Sports, the US outwear brand The North Face, unveiled its latest windbreaker collection: 2024 Summit Series, which uses its self-developing fabric technology FUTURELIGHT™, one of technology that can change the density of fibers to adjust the breathability and elasticity. It is vital for sportswear brands to develop their own technology.
Brand & Fabrics
On Mar.11th, the activewear brand Athleta announced that they are planning to apply the latest recycled fabrics, cycora, which developed by the material company Ambercycle, to their yoga, traveling and training apparel. Cycora is one-kind of recycled polyester which made from disused textiles. The company is aiming to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and solve the problems of the disuse of industry textiles.
Exhibitions & Accessories
The zipper behemoth YKK just successfully finished holding a themed exhibition on Mar.15th in Shanghai, China. The exhibition displayed YKK’s latest products including DynaPel, QuickFree®, Integrated-spring Snap SKN30…,etc. The exhibitions revolved around”LIVING EARTH”, to show the group’s determination on environment caring.
Products
The swiss high-performance sports brand On unveiled latest tennis apparels collections collaborating with the tennis stars Iga Świątek and Ben Shelton on Mar.14th. The latest collection includes on-court and off-court styles, aims to create a premium and innovative tennis apparel for wearers.
Colors
The UK based fashion network news group Fashion United summarized the trendy colors of Paris Fashion Week. The main theme of seasonal colors on the catwalk are Khaki, pink and green. However, after the rush of saturated colors, this time the designers seems to prefer the shady and neutral style this year.
Stay on tuned with Arabella and we will bring you more latest news in the industry!