Design
How Heron Preston's Formula E Partnership Turns Reclaimed Materials Into a Working Method
A preview capsule built from factory offcuts shows what a recycled-cotton program looks like before the pricing and scale are settled.
Type Magazine
The Edit
Why Fabric Shrinks After Washing: The Relaxation, Felting, and Heat Behind It
Clothes shrink because finishing leaves fabric under tension, washing lets it relax, wool felts, and heat locks the change in. Pre-shrinking gets there first.
The Edit
How Fabric Weight Is Measured, and Why a GSM Number Changes What You Get
Fabric weight is measured in grams per square metre, shortened to GSM. The number signals thickness, density, strength, cost, and how a garment will wear.
Cut & Construct
How clothes are built — and which builds last.
Design
Design
Choosing Between Zippers, Buttons, and Snaps: A Closure Decision Guide
How designers weigh garment type, cost, durability, accessibility, and looks when picking garment closures.
Design
How Fabric Grain Direction Shapes the Way a Garment Hangs and Stretches
Warp, weft and bias behave like three different materials. Cutting a pattern off-grain quietly undoes the fit a designer drew.
Retail
Retail
The Real Reasons Store Music Makes You Spend
Store music is never an accident. Research on background music shows how tempo, volume, and mood quietly shape how long you browse and how much you spend.
Retail
Inside the Stockroom: How Stores Really Restock
Inventory cycles, markdown calendars and the quiet logic that decides when a rack gets refilled.
Retail
A Career Guide to Working in Retail Today: From Sales Floor to Buying Desk
The ladder still exists, but the rungs have moved. Here is how the paths from selling to buying, merchandising, and store leadership actually work.
Technology
Technology
Digital Pattern Making: How CAD Replaced the Card Table, and What Pattern Makers Lost
Pattern making has moved from paper tables to CAD software. Speed and grading improved, while part of the hand craft quietly faded.
Technology
The Gadgets Quietly Changing Getting Dressed
Smart mirrors, body scanners and fabric recyclers are moving fashion tech out of the factory and into the fitting room.
Technology
Digital Wardrobes: What Virtual Clothing Actually Is, and What Wearing Means Online
A garment made of pixels never touches a body. That changes what design, ownership, and getting dressed mean.
Style News
Style News
How to Write a Style Newsletter People Actually Open
Voice, curation, and cadence decide whether a fashion digest survives its third issue.
Style News
The Editors Who Define What We Wear, and How the Gate Actually Works
Fashion's taste gate is less a single arbiter than a stack of decisions about what gets published, where it sits, and how much space it takes.
Style News
Why Car Shows Started Handing Out Style Awards, and What It Signals
Concours judging has always measured the machine. A new award at Salon Privé measures the person standing next to it.
The Atelier Report
Fashion News
The Front Row Explained: Who Sits Where and Why
A runway seat is a seating chart of the industry itself — and the invitation tells you which list you're on.
Business News
The EU Agreed to Make Fashion Brands Pay for Their Textile Waste
Extended producer responsibility for clothing is set to land in every member state — and the fee schedule, not the principle, is where the margin moves.
Innovation
How RFID Tags Track a Garment From Warehouse to Sales Floor
Item-level RFID tagging is a system that embeds a passive radio chip in a garment's price ticket or woven label so a reader can identify that single unit without a hand scan of its barcode.
Fashion News
The $2 Wage Rise Against the $9.99 Price Floor: Summer 2026 in One Number
Cambodia's 2026 garment wage rose $2 while union demands ran $22 higher; Bangladesh's base held flat. The price floor above them has not moved either.
Latest Stories
Style
Cross-Channel Inventory: How a Store Counts One Dress Across Web, App, and Rack
One SKU, three shelves, and a reconciliation problem that never fully goes away.
Style
How Planogram Software Decides What Goes on Which Shelf, and When
A planogram is a retailer's diagram of every facing, shelf level and sequence in a fixture — and the reason two stores in the same chain look identical.
Technology
Why RFID Took Over the Stockroom, and What It Replaced
A tag that costs dimes and reads through cardboard rewrote inventory accuracy — the system shift, from the GS1 standard to Walmart's mandates.
Materials
How Wrinkle-Resistant Cotton Works, and What the Resin Costs the Fabric
Wrinkle resistance in cotton is achieved by cross-linking — a resin finishing process in which a chemical, historically a formaldehyde-releasing agent, forms covalent bonds between neighboring cellulose molecules so…
Technology
How Item-Level RFID Tags Rewired the Apparel Stockroom
A passive radio tag sewn into a garment now does what a barcode never could: count an entire rack without a single item leaving the shelf.
Style News
How Federal Rules Dictate Every Word on a Clothing Care Label
A garment's care tag is not packaging copy; it is a federal disclosure governed by two separate regulations, a registration number, and a standardized symbol system, all enforceable as consumer-protection law.
Style
How Durable Water Repellent Finishes Work, and What the PFAS Bans Change
A durable water repellent, or DWR, is a surface finish that lowers a fabric's critical surface energy so rain beads and rolls off instead of wetting the yarn.
Retail
How Retail's $849.9 Billion Returns Channel Works, and Why the Fees Arrived
Returns now run at 15.8 percent of U.S. sales and 19.3 percent online. Mail-in fees price the reverse leg, and California's textile EPR law prices what happens after it.