Like most post-pubescent males staring down the barrel of eternal cosydom, my two boys have been dragging the chain.

There are always juicy stories about manufacturers and their agents. Here's another one. A well-known Sydney almost-designer label has been with a Sydney agent for 10 years (not biblically). The relationship had worked well until. . .

What better way to kick off the stocktake season than with an A-list launch party complete with Pepperjack wines and canapés created by leading Aussie chef Joe di Cintio?

With a client list ranging from high fashion to work wear and a growing network of offices across the globe, it seems there's no challenge Brightview Textile is not prepared to take on, as Belinda Smart reports.

Asian print companies have been accused of ripping the heart out of the local screen printing industry. Samantha Docherty looks at how the survivors are coping.

Ragtrader has a yarn with four fibres and fabrics businesses about what the future holds.

If a healthy body means a healthy mind, then a healthy wardrobe is the nearest thing any of us shallow fashion types will get to a work-out for the soul.

Assia Benmedjdoub talks to a current and former fashion design student from the New Zealand Institute of Fashion Technology about working hard.

MELBOURNE: Domenique Mantese has a thing about Brazil.

NATIONAL: The Victorian capital's first ck Calvin Klein stand alone store will open in Melbourne Central by mid July, with further stores scheduled to open at Melbourne's Chadstone and Sydney Central Plaza in December.

SYDNEY: Sun Herald fashion and style director Glynis Traill-Nash, hairdresser Bruce Packer and Paul Higgins, of Sydney-based label Circa 75 are just some of the panelists lined up for Fashion Group International of Sydney's impending fashion flash forecast.

NATIONAL: The Hong Kong Trade Development Council is again offering subsidised hotel accommodation deals to Australian buyers wishing to attend Hong Kong Fashion Week spring/summer 2008.

When you're a brand with as much street credibility as a gyrating Madonna in the 1980s, having your hand in one pie just doesn't pack enough punch.

There are many ways to pay homage to a dearly departed relative.

Iconic Australian outerwear label Driza-bone is about to get wet.

Wet weather always brings out the competitive beast in both my boys.