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Polopiqué and StampDyeing suspend production units in Portugal
Published
September 1, 2025
Polopiqué and StampDyeing – Tinturaria, Estamparia e Finamentos, located in Guimarães, Santo Tirso, and Vila Nova de Famalicão, are announcing the suspension of some of their production units in Portugal.
The Polopiqué group alone, which exports to more than 47 countries around the world, with important markets in Angola, Brazil, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, is closing two factories that are already insolvent and laying off 280 workers, with two more units undergoing restructuring, which may well increase the number of redundancies. Chinese online platforms such as Shein and Temu are being blamed for the decline of the Portuguese textile industry.
According to MaisGuimarães (+G), Têxteis J.F. Almeida S.A, Polopiqué Comércio e Indústria de Confeções, S.A, Polopiqué – Acabamentos Têxteis, S.A, and Stampdyeing, Serviços, Lda have already filed applications for Special Revitalization Processes (PER) with the courts throughout August. The four companies are part of Portuguese textile giants with branches throughout the Ave Valley (Guimarães, Famalicão, and Santo Tirso) that directly employ around two thousand people. In the case of J.F. Almeida, only the credit institutions are affected by a process that aims to reschedule debt in the face of cash flow difficulties, but at Polopiqué there are plans to make almost 300 redundancies.
Also according to +G, Polopiqué Comércio e Indústria de Confeções, with 54.5 million euros in debt, is complaining of difficulties in meeting its commitments. We also remember the turnover of 81.1 million euros in 2024, 19.5% more than in the same period last year, and the net profit of 1.3 million euros, 35.9% more than in 2023.
According to ECO, the group, which has around 800 employees who are expected to be cut in half, has started a restructuring plan that includes revitalization plans and the insolvency of business units.
According to the chairman of the board, Luís Guimarães, the textile group “will maintain the strategic and most profitable activities in its value chain, focusing on areas where it has greater differentiation, control, and operational return. In this way, it will maintain an activity of excellence in the areas of design, logistics and sales, textile finishing, and yarn production,” he told ECO, guaranteeing in a statement that “the restructuring will be conducted with a total sense of social responsibility”.
“The group will move forward with a set of measures aimed at simplifying processes, optimizing the value chain, and strengthening the economic and environmental sustainability of its operations,” it continues, stressing that the “concentration of production capacity in the units with the highest operational performance and flexibility, closing the garment manufacturing and fabric weaving units,” the statement points out.
For its part, StampDyeing, part of the Mabera – Coelima Group, which currently exports around 25% of its production to the US and around 70% to the European market, has not paid salaries for two months to around 100 workers, including vacation pay. Dâmaso Lobo, the administrator of the group that owns the Vimaranense dyeing and printing plant, said that he will meet with the affected employees this Monday, September 1. “With the gas cut off since then, they continue to work 8 hours a day without producing anything,” confirms AbrilAbril.
Also according to the information space, linked to Abril values, which follows national and international news, Dâmaso Lobo had already committed himself, in a meeting with the Textile Union of Minho and Trás-os-Montes (affiliated to the CGTP-IN), to paying off the debts he owes to the affected workers, but so far he has failed to pay the salaries at StampDyeing.
Nevertheless, Coelima’s turnover grew by 15% in 2024, reaching results of 8.5 million euros, with even better expectations for 2025, as Dâmaso Lobo himself confirmed to PortugalTêxtil, which acquired the historic textile company in 2021.
“At Coelima there was talk of profits, but at the expense of StampDyeing. Here we have no wages and no future,” lamented a worker to the newspaper MaisGuimarães, in one of the many protests that took place in August, the month in which a chemical supplier filed for insolvency against the company on the first day, due to lack of payments.
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Salon International De La Lingerie & Interfilière Paris in Jan 2026
Global leaders in the lingerie, loungewear, swimwear, activewear, and intimate apparel markets, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE and INTERFILIÈRE PARIS embody a new era. Within Room 0126, the unified space conceived by WSN, their reach expands: presented alongside Who’s Next, Bijorhca, and Shoppe Object Paris in Hall 7, they become the intimate apparel hub of an event encompassing all creative industries. This simultaneous presentation of upstream and downstream products, unique in the world, now engages with ready-to-wear, accessories, jewellery, design, and sourcing, offering buyers a comprehensive view of collections, materials, and uses. Located at the heart of this ecosystem, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE and INTERFILIÈRE PARIS offer a reinvented event, highly inspiring and resolutely focused on the future.
The Salon International De La Lingerie and Interfilière Paris will run from January 17-19, 2026, offering a unified platform for lingerie, swimwear, activewear, materials, and sourcing.
The shows feature trend forums, expert talks, fitting rooms, guided tours, and five new fashion shows built around natural sensuality and radiant adornment.
This unified time and place allows professionals to enjoy a comprehensive experience: observing textile innovations, discovering the resulting collections, and forging new collaborations. Suppliers of materials and accessories, as well as lace makers, engage in dialogue with designers, creating a
synergy essential to the industry’s dynamism. These key events offer a holistic view of a market where renewal, boldness, commitment, and resilience are paramount.
The clean and elegant scenography complements an enriched program where talks, conferences, roundtables, and masterclasses explore the industry’s transformations. Inspiration and foresight combine to decipher the challenges of rapidly changing markets.
THE SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE, AN UNMISSABLE EVENT
A true driving force in the sector and an ambassador of change, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE brings together established brands, industry leaders, emerging labels, and exceptional designers from around the world. A major attraction for all international buyers, the Show welcomes department stores, concept stores, independent lingerie and swimwear boutiques, and more, all seeking new products and valuable connections.
Beyond its rich and creative offerings, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE champions inclusion and diversity to encourage and support emerging and committed sectors. This vision is reflected in a program full of inspiring content, featuring exclusive shows, opportunities to meet the key players transforming the industry, and a spotlight on responsible trends and innovations shaping its future.
The Lingerie Shop: le concept store de l’intime
The Lingerie Shop redefines the trade show experience. Conceived as a life-size trend laboratory, this space showcases the season’s gems and essentials through innovative scenography. It offers retailers a dual perspective: an editorial selection of key pieces and merchandising tailored to evolving consumer expectations. This expert curation allows for an instant understanding of market dynamics and the identification of promising designs. An initiative that bridges the gap between
inspiration and market realities.
New feature: fitting rooms to try on and discover the pieces in fitting.
A complementary tailor-made service: Personalised guided tours are offered to all buyers. Accompanied by Vanessa Causse, trend forecaster for the International Lingerie Show, French and international buyers will benefit from a customised analysis of the collections on display, merchandising advice adapted to their type of point of sale, and an in-depth analysis of the season’s commercial trends.
5 brand new shows to discover
In collaboration with the Hermana agency, embodied by Caroline Lefrere, the fashion shows highlight the 2 major trends of the season and the must-have products of the show.
3 WINTER TREND FASHION SHOWS 26/27: everyday: Saturday, Sunday and Monday
2 THE SELECTION FASHION SHOWS – OUR SEASON’S FAVOURITES: Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
2 MAJOR TRENDS IN LIGHTING
Two major trends are emerging for the coming season, between an embrace of naturalness and a renewed radiance: EVERYDAY SENSUALITY & ADORNMENTS INSPIRATION
EVERYDAY SENSUALITY – Everyday sensuality reinvented
This trend explores an aesthetic where naturalness becomes sensual. It celebrates burnt earth tones, drawing from the palette of natural pigments: second-skin shades, organic beiges, and soft ochres that assert identity through colour. It unveils casual, everyday silhouettes, sculpted from textured, crafted, enveloping fabrics that gently embrace the body. Comfortable lingerie is imbued with an instinctive and confident sensuality. The materials speak of authenticity, a return to essentials, and unadorned beauty.
ADORNMENTS INSPIRATION – When colour becomes adornment
Color becomes ornamentation, highlighting and complementing the body’s curves. This trend affirms a desire for radiance, vitality, and energy through a luminous and vibrant palette. Fabrics play with transparency and reflections: precious silks, ethereal organzas, or sophisticated meshes. Lingerie becomes couture, and ornamental pieces take centre stage. Bodywear borrows from jewellery its ability to enhance, from clothing its sophistication and from art its aesthetic dimension.
A rich and creative offering
The SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE unveils the best of the international market: AMBASSADOR1867 – AUBADE PARIS – BESTFORM – COCO DE MER – DEREK ROSE – DIM – DKNY – DORINA – FILA – FLEUR OF ENGLAND – FREYA – GILSA PARIS – IROHA – KARMA ON THE ROCKS – L’ANGELIQUE – LASCANA – LAUREN RALPH LAUREN – LINGADORE – LISCA – LISE CHARMEL – LOUISA BRACQ – MAISON LEJABY – MARIE JO – MEY – NATURANA – NUEAME – PLUTO – SANS COMPLEXE – SARDA – SIMONE PERELE – SKARLETT BLUE – UBRAS – VARIANCE – WACOAL – ZIMMERLI OF
SWITZERLAND…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
The 2026 edition is particularly symbolic: CHANTELLE celebrates 150 years of French excellence, ANITA marks 140 years of German expertise, while EMPREINTE and LE CHAT each celebrate 80 years of know-how and creativity. These anniversaries testify to the enduring nature of an industry that spans decades by constantly reinventing itself.
THE WELLNESS CORNER
Nestled in the area dedicated to young creators, the wellness offering blends intimacy and beauty with the wellness brands AIA – CRAVE – HIGHONLOVE – IROHA – SOAK…
EXPOSED once again showcases its fashion vision. This intimate space brings together a carefully curated selection of brands that are redefining the aesthetics of intimacy, from emerging talents to established names. ADITI, AROMATIQUE, ATELIER AMOUR, CARVARO, DESMOND & DEMPSEY, ERNEST LEOTY, FLEUR OF ENGLAND, LALIDE A PARIS, LE BOUDOIR LOS ANGELES, MARIA LUCIA HOHAN, NETTE ROSE, ORGANIC BASICS, and RILKE create a creative landscape where lingerie is revealed with precision and personality.
INSPIRING CONFERENCES
Each day, a different theme and three expert talks.
A unique analysis of product, material, market, and societal trends.
INTERFILIÈRE PARIS UPSTREAM OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN, A DRIVER OF INNOVATION
In a context of profound transformation within the textile industry, INTERFILIERE PARIS remains the creative hub for networking and inspiration, providing forward-looking insights for all stakeholders in the sector. With its discerning selection of manufacturers of excellence, exceptional crafts that perpetuate centuries-old traditions, and innovative industries, the trade show brings together influential players in the Lingerie, Swimwear, Luxury & Sport markets.
A true driving force behind upcoming collections, it sets the trend forecast. The laces, embroideries, innovative fabrics, accessories, and new fibers on display shape creativity and influence tomorrow’s collections.
Attracting a renowned international audience—major accounts, leading retail chains, and leading luxury brands—INTERFILIÈRE PARIS reflects a constantly evolving market, driven by innovation and performance.
By bringing together all international players in a human-scale event, INTERFILIÈRE PARIS symbolizes the industry’s diverse strengths, resilient and determined to shape the future.
Located in Hall 7.2 of the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center, INTERFILIÈRE PARIS and the SOURCING & SOLUTIONS route invite visitors to an immersive experience focused on inspiration, synergy, innovation, and networking. Designed for both exhibiting brands and visitors, it connects, in a single space, all the stages that fuel creation.
An Interfilière Paris and Sourcing & Solutions Trends Forum
This trend forum offers immersive experiences dedicated to creation and exchange. This inspiring space showcases innovative tools where forward-thinking vision meets concrete solutions for imagining the collections of tomorrow. It highlights Nelly Rodi’s analysis of material trends.
Personalized tours of the trend forum are available by appointment. Visitors benefit from a tailored analysis of the four 2027 material trends, an in-depth look at textile innovations, and guidance in selecting the materials best suited to their creative and commercial needs. A premium service that transforms inspiration into concrete business opportunities.
THE MATERIALS LIBRARY
The materials library is designed as a place of inspiration and networking to stimulate and bring creative projects to life. This comprehensive and attractive space for professionals showcases the rich and complementary product ranges of all the exhibitors at INTERFILIÈRE PARIS and SOURCING & SOLUTIONS. The challenge is to offer a living and sensory tool and a pragmatic database to materialize today’s projects for tomorrow’s challenges.
Decoding material trends by Nelly Rodi
At a time when pace is accelerating and sensibilities are fragmenting, design is exploring new avenues: a return to nature, a fascination with technology, a quest for symbolic meaning, and a need for gentleness. In a world where everything sometimes seems ephemeral, materials, textures, and finishes become vehicles for emotion as much as for style. The artisanal gesture is regaining essential value: precise braiding, subtle pleating, gilded finishes, and delicate embroidery. Simultaneously, technical innovations invite us to rethink our relationship with the body: intelligent knits, thermoformed volumes, breathable perforations, and modular structures.
HONORATION – Natural beauty enhanced by exceptional craftsmanship
Honoration celebrates nature magnified by the expert hand: linen, raffia, and plant fibers become precious through braiding, fringes, and organic draping. Between fluidity, transparency, and sculpted details, the silhouette reveals a powerful yet delicate femininity. Golden tones and patinated textures evoke a calm and timeless luxury, connecting ready-to-wear, lingerie, and jewelry in a radiant sophistication. It celebrates the authenticity of materials and the beauty of craftsmanship, in an era where the return to nature is accompanied by a desire for transcendence.
Four trends complement and respond to one another. These trends interact across ready-to-wear, lingerie, and jewelry. Connections emerge between textiles and metal, technology and raw materials, emotion and innovation. Each product category draws inspiration from the others, creating a cohesive and comprehensive aesthetic language.
RE-COMPOSITION – Sensitive innovation: active and modular materials
Re-composition explores a future where technology becomes aesthetics: 3D materials, perforated surfaces, thermoformed volumes, and sculpted jerseys create an urban, modular, and breathable wardrobe. Kinetic jewelry, modular structures, and 3D prints extend this momentum. Technical colors and functional finishes compose an agile, tactile, and human innovation, connecting ready-to wear, lingerie, and accessories. A design vision where the object accompanies, supports, and inspires.
INVOCATION – Raw magic: symbols and patinated materials
Invocation draws on mysteries and shapes an intuitive and sensual aesthetic. Patinated textiles imbued with stories, theatrical brocades, and organic forms. Talismanic jewelry, hypnotic transparencies, and dreamlike motifs evoke a fantastical nature. Between shadows, metallic glints, and deep hues, this trend seeks not perfection but intensity—the energy of a gesture, the trace of time, the power of a pattern. It invites us to reconnect with instinct and the emotional power of materials.
AFFECTION – A summer of nostalgic sweetness
Affection celebrates a regressive and luminous sweetness: soothing colors, reimagined pajama stripes, Provençal flowers, and velvety textures sketch a fresh and joyful baby-doll femininity. 3D floral volumes, playful patterns, and openwork knits nurture a tender narrative. Hybrid laces, delicate pastels, colorful denims, and contrasting topstitching compose a sensitive and light summer, where material and color become emotions. A tender and optimistic aesthetic that cultivates emotional connection.
Key exhibitors at Interfilière Paris
ACETECH, APUT, ART MARTIN, BISCHOFF, BRODERIES LEVEAUX – POTENCIER BRODERIES, BUGIS, CHUETSU LACE, CINTAS MARTELL, EMBREX LTD, ENCAJES, GAYOU LACE, GROBELASTIC SA, HAEMMERLE & VOGEL, ILUNA, JEAN BRACQ, LES TISSAGES PERRIN, NOYON LANKA, PRETTY SUN ; PRYM INTIMATES, SANKO TEKSTIL, SOPHIE HALLETTE, SUGARCUP, UNOELLE, WILLY HERMANN, YUHUAJU INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD, ZHEN RONG TEXTILE & GARMENT…
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Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KD)
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November retail sales fail to impress despite Black Friday, says Barclays and BRC
Published
December 9, 2025
Two key monthly spending reports came out on Tuesday morning and showed that, as other reports have suggested, that November retail sales and general spending were pretty unimpressive.
It’s worth noting that different reports use different criteria to reach their figures so there will be variations.
Barclays said card spending saw its greatest fall since 2021 last month, as consumer confidence remained subdued.
Non-essential spend fell for the first time since July 2024, although Black Friday still managed to give retailers their busiest day of 2025.
So let’s look at the numbers. Consumer card spending (which takes in all types of spending, such as dining out and entertainment, as well as retail) was down 1.1% year on year. It was considerably lower than the latest CPIH inflation rate of 3.8%. The biggest drop was seen in essential spending, which was down 2.9% but non-essential spending fell only 0.3%.
Specific card spending at retail dipped 1.1% and transaction growth was negative to the tune of 2.3%, but on Black Friday transaction volumes rose 62.5% compared to the average day this year.
Of the sectors that came out on top, pharmacy, health & beauty spending grew 6.1% in November, continuing its strong streak as far as spend growth was concerned, although transaction growth was negative at 2.4%.
Clothing store spend was up 1.3% with transaction growth of 3.6%. Department stores had a tough time with spend down 8.2% and transaction growth down 6.4%.
Meanwhile, the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, said UK total retail sales increased by 1.4% year on year in November, against a decline of 3.3% in November 2024. This was below the 12-month average growth of 2.5%.
Non-food sales increased by 0.1% year on year, against a decline of 7.9% in November 2024. In-store non-food sales decreased by 0.3%, after a fall of 6.2% in November 2024 and online non-food sales increased by 0.5% year on year, against a drop of 10.3% a year ago.
Both fashion and footwear dipped slightly during the month, according to the BRC. This goes against the Barclays view that clothing sales rose slightly. But in both cases, the fact is that fashion stores went the extra mile to drive sales and didn’t seem to be that successful.
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: “Pre-Budget jitters among shoppers meant the month of Black Friday did not deliver as strongly as retailers had hoped or the economy needed. Sales growth was the weakest in six months, despite the elevated inflation. Not unexpectedly, online dominated, with the proportion of non-food bought online reaching its highest level since 2022. Many consumers took advantage of promotions, with homeware and upholstery selling well ahead of festive hosting. Fashion lagged, especially with the mild first half of November dampening demand for winterwear.”
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Max Mara takes its next resort collection to Shanghai
Published
December 9, 2025
Max Mara will stage its 2027 resort show in Shanghai in June next year, the house has revealed.
“The Max Mara Resort 2027 show will take place in Shanghai, China on Tuesday 16th June 2026,” the Italian luxury fashion house confirmed in a statement.
The decision marks the latest exotic destination for the house, which last year held its resort show in Royal Palace of Caserta, the Versailles of Italy, located near Naples.
Pre-show, the 300 guests sipped prosecco, as stars like Sharon Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joey King and Alexa Chung admired the truly magnificent one kilometer-long series of cascades, interspersed with five monumental fountains, designed by architect, Luigi Vanvitelli.
Max Mara’s UK-born designer Ian Griffiths creating a beautiful collection he termed “pragmatic feminism,” that riffed on Italia cinema icons like Sophia Loren and Silvana Mangano.
That event followed Max Mara’s resort 2025 show at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, another Italian masterpiece rich in history. No word yet on the exact location of the upcoming Shanghai show.
Previous Max Mara resort collections have also been unveiled in Stockholm, Berlin and Lisbon.
Max Mara resort shows traditionally climax a series of major collections by important European brands each spring. Next year, Louis Vuitton and Dior will both stage their cruise shows in America, in New York and Los Angeles respectively.
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