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US’ textiles & apparel exports fell 3% to $13 bn in Jan-July 2025
Among the top ten export markets, shipments to Mexico fell *.** per cent, totalling $*,***.*** million in January–July ****. Mexico remained the single-largest export destination, accounting for nearly ** per cent of US exports, making this decline particularly significant. Exports to Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Canada, the United Kingdom, and China also declined, by up to **.** per cent. In contrast, exports to the Netherlands, Japan, Belgium, and Guatemala rose, with gains of up to **.** per cent. The surge in shipments to Europe and Japan suggests growing diversification of export markets amid falling demand in North America.
During the same period, the US exported $*,***.*** million worth of textiles and apparel to Canada, $***.*** million to Honduras, $***.*** million to the Netherlands, $***.*** million to China, $***.*** million to Guatemala, and $***.*** million to the Dominican Republic—its key export destinations. Despite trade tensions, China remained a top-five market for US textiles, though volumes continued to decline.
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September 15, 2025
Hackers have stolen the private details of potentially millions of customers from luxury fashion brands Gucci, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen, according to a report by the BBC. The cyberattack targeted the labels’ French parent company, Kering.
Kering confirmed the breach in a statement without naming the affected brands. It said that in June, “an unauthorized third party gained temporary access to our systems and accessed limited customer data from some of our Houses.”
The attack appears to be part of a broader wave of cyber incidents affecting global luxury brands and retailers this year.
Breaches have also occurred at Richemont’s Cartier and several labels owned by luxury group LVMH. In July, Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog announced an investigation into a data leak involving about 419,000 customers at LVMH’s Louis Vuitton.
According to the BBC report, the stolen client data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses and the total amounts spent in-store.
Kering said no financial information—such as credit card or bank account numbers—was compromised.
The hackers, who identified themselves to the BBC as “Shiny Hunters,” claimed to have data linked to 7.4 million unique email addresses.
Kering stated that its brands immediately reported the breach to the appropriate authorities and notified customers in accordance with local regulations. The company declined to specify which countries were affected when asked by Reuters.
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September 15, 2025
Dior has appointed the famed French chef Yannick Alléno to be the culinary king of the Monsieur Dior restaurant at 30 Montaigne, the brand’s outrageously luxe Paris flagship.
A three-star Michelin chef, Alléno will also be responsible for La Pâtisserie – renamed “Le Jardin” – and Le Café: three venues dedicated to that French specialty – the art of living – located in the townhouse that saw the birth of the fashion house in 1946.
Very much a gastronomic revolutionary, Alléno is renowned for reinventing French cuisine by employing innovative techniques such as fermentation, extraction, and cryoconcentration to elevate sauces and capture the essence of flavors.
Alléno first began attracting attention as the chef of the five-star Hotel Meurice in Paris before going on to collaborate with Bernard Arnault, the CEO of LVMH, which controls Dior, at the 1947 restaurant in Cheval Blanc Courchevel, another brand within the luxury conglomerate.
“What would Christian Dior do if he were to create a restaurant today?” Alléno asked himself before creating an exclusive menu for Dior.
His new menu is designed like a collection, where forms and textures echo the couture universe, the archives, and Dior looks. Key inspirations include nature and flowers, about which Monsieur Dior was so passionate.
Yannick Alléno is, in 2025, the most Michelin-starred chef in the world, with 18 restaurants crowned with 17 stars in the Michelin Guide. Monsieur Dior becomes the nineteenth establishment under his direction.
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Intimiti Australia Pty Ltd, developer of Celys, the world’s first certified compostable polyester has been awarded the Innovate P2X 2025 grant by the NSW Decarbonisation Innovation Hub. This milestone accelerates Intimiti’s mission to reduce textile waste while driving innovation at the intersection of circular textiles and clean energy, transforming end-of-life clothing into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
Intimiti Australia, developer of Celys—the world’s first certified compostable polyester—has won the Innovate P2X 2025 grant from NSW’s Decarbonisation Hub.
In partnership with Macquarie University, it will transform end-of-life clothing into Sustainable Aviation Fuel, tackling Australia’s low 2 per cent textile recycling rate and advancing circularity in textiles and clean energy.
Australia’s textile footprint highlights the urgency of intervention: 373,000 tonnes of new clothes are imported annually, while 200,000 tonnes of clothing still end up in landfill every year. Despite well-meaning donations, 210,000 tonnes of garments sent to charities or bins often cannot be resold or recycled, leaving the nation with a recycling rate of just 2 percent.
Through Innovate P2X funding and in collaboration with Macquarie University, Intimiti will help reshape the textile value chain by proving that end of life clothing can be reengineered into high value energy solutions. By bridging material innovation with clean energy, the company seeks to demonstrate a scalable model for true circularity where fashion waste is transformed into fuel for a decarbonised future. This breakthrough not only diverts valuable fibres from landfill and reduces microplastic pollution, but also delivers renewable fuel to the aviation sector, one of the hardest industries to decarbonise.
“This initiative is more than innovation, it’s reimagining waste as opportunity,” says Jason, Project Lead at Intimiti Australia. “By valorising waste streams, we’re creating high-impact circularity in textiles and energy industries.”
With Innovate P2X support, Intimiti aims to show that fashion waste can find a second life as clean energy, helping both people and the planet move toward a sustainable future.
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