Merry Christmas for all the readers! Best wishes from Arabella Clothing! Hope you are currently enjoying the time with your family and friends!
Even it is Christmas time, the activewear industry is still running. Grab a glass of wine with us now and see what is happening last week!
Fabrics
The Japanese Fiber & Product Converting Company-Teijin Frontier Co. Ltd announced on Dec. 18th, the success of development of Microft™ MX, a latest material that made from highly-deformed cross-section multifilament yarn*. Combing the nylon’s abrasion-resistance and color development capabilities, and polyester’s water absorption, quick-drying properties and shape stability, the yarn is actually a breakthrough in developing the combination of nylon and polyester’s functionalities.
(PS: Multifilament yarn-a long yarn formed by tens of single yarns or fibers then twisted into one single yarn)
Technologies
The renowned material and technology company Hologenix unveiled the CELLIANT Print, a printing technology using the fine mineral material CELLIANT that able to apply to the most kinds of fabrics, including eco-friendly fabrics. The technology has undergone the washing tests for over 50 times, is suitable for long-time use. It is an innovative printing solution for textile and clothing suppliers. The famous global sports brand, Under Armour, has applied this kind of printing technology in their activewear collection, UA RUSH™, which is featured for its biggest selling point, sweat-resistance.
Trendy Products
According to POP Fashion, a professional fashion trending website, along with the expandsion of activewear, one of its segment, fightwear, has become a trendy product on this market. There are several styles, types and brands that worth focusing on as following, such as men’s compression leggings with strong visual designs, active bras, MMA shorts...,etc.
Arabella shares the same opinion and is following this trend as we recently we received more inquiries about fightwear such as Jiu Ji-tsu shorts, compression rash guards for boxing and fighting. It is an important trend in activewear that we will continue to dig and focus on and explore.
Colors
X-Rite, the global leading technology company who collaborates with Pantone, Apple, HP, Adobe, announced on Dec.20th that the color of 2024: PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, is available now on PantoneLIVE™, a cloud-based digital color standard ecosystem. The digitizing of this color is aiming to assist the designers and fashion suppliers start designing, communicating color standards, prototyping, and producing PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz across fashion materials, products and more products that might need to apply with this color.
Brands
The global sportswear brand DETHCALON announced the acquisition of Germany-based outdoor fashion and equipment brand Bergfreunde, which is an online retailer established in 2006 and has expanded their business in Denmark, France, Finland, Italy, and more. The acquisition aims to expand the Europe’s high-end outwear market but also strengthen DETHCALON’s current outwear product line.
From our perspective, after the pandemic, people are longing to go for long trips and reconnect with nature, making outwear one of the viral and trendy products in sportswear. Let’s just keep an eye out for more surprises that might happen in this industry.
Post time: Dec-26-2023