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The FabricLink Network names top 10 textile innovations
Textile World
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The FabricLink Network, Reseda, Calif. — an online resource for specialty textiles — has named its Top 10 Textile Innovations for 2011. The annual award recognizes new textile-based specialty fabrics product technologies, as well as existing specialty fabrics products featuring improved design, construction and performance characteristics. The FabricLink Network selects the winners based on a review of new products.
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High Point Market wins praise for its use of Pinterest
Casual Living
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The High Point Market has received praise for its use of Pinterest, a new social media site that lets consumers gather information and share opinions on products and brands, according to market organizers. Social media experts cited the market's Style Spotters program. Launched in October, it featured market attendees who are followers of fashion and design trends highlighting their favorite products and trends showcased by exhibitors at market.
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Global yarn and fabric production up in third quarter of 2011
Yarns and Fibers Exchange
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International Textile Manufacturers Federation reported that the output of global yarn production increased in the 3rd quarter of 2011 as a result of higher output in Asia — in particular China — and South America and in spite lower production in Europe and North America.
Year-on-year global yarn production was up slightly due to higher output in Asia and in spite of lower output in Europe, South and North America.
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New York Fashion Week: Fashionista's 10 favorite collections
Fashionista
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New York Fashion Week has come and gone. Now it's time to take a look back on the shows that really made an impact on us–from J. Crew's wearable mix of prints, to Marc Jacobs' directional (and Jamiroquai-inspired!) collection. Read on for Fashionista's personal favorite shows.
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The 35 prettiest pics from Fashion Week
Refinery 29
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When we boil it all down, the purpose of Fashion Week (and fashion in general, we guess) is to produce, celebrate and ogle gorgeous things. And when the parade of pretty lasts for a whole week ... let's say it took a lot of work to settle on only 35 photos from a team of ace photographers. Ahead, the prettiest pictures from New York Fashion Week.
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Las Vegas shows strong for some
California Apparel News
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In the world of Las Vegas trade shows, the maxim "location, location, location" is key. For many exhibitors at the recent run of shows, location meant the difference between a great show — one with plenty of traffic and buyers ready to write orders — or one in which turnout was light or business was, at best, flat.
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Lending to a business, relatives and friends
Furniture Today (blog)
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When lending money, the IRS (and common sense) requires that you follow a few rules. One such rule demands that you charge what the IRS deems to be an adequate interest rate on loans totaling at least $10,000. Failing to charge such an interest rate can trigger "below market loan" rules which may result in gift tax consequences for you and income tax consequences for both you and the borrower.
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120% Lino opens first US store
Home Textiles Today
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120% Lino has opened its first U.S. store in Coral Gables, Fla., catering to Miami's permanent and pied-à-tere residents as well as the city's heavily Hispanic tourist base. The shop is located in Merrick Park on the first floor, steps from the mall's manicured gardens and in the milieu of Neiman Marcus, Tiffany & Co., Façonnable, Carolina Herrera, and Gucci, to name a few.
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Why you must be your own visionary leader
AG Beat
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What sets you in motion to get up in the morning and do your job? Do you love what you do? Do you have that fiery passion that guns for you, even in the moments right before you're about to fall asleep, flooding you with thousands of ideas and light-bulb moments that spring you up and bring you back to productivity, even when it's time to stop and rest?
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