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Time Business News
3 days ago
- Business
- Time Business News
Innovations Transforming the Winter Hats Market
Winter hats are go-to hats for winter, worn for warmth and protection during the cold season. They are generally made with insulating materials possessing warmth-retaining properties, including wool, fleece, or synthetic fibers. The future of winter hats market is armed with a rising demand for sustainable materials, thermally smart fabrics, and elevated designs that merge style with function. There is an increasing consumer need for eco-friendly and biodegradable varieties, self-heating fabrics and mixed styles (e.g., fuzzy buckets and tech-infused beanies) are trending. Growth in e-commerce, coupled with personalization and influencer-backed marketing, claimed that the demand amplifies, with Asia-Pacific expected to witness strong growth for these product categories. Key Growth Drivers and Opportunities Increasing Consumer Need for Eco-Friendly and Biodegradable Varieties: It is essential of a particular matter that the future of the industry in line with the expectations of the people, that is, the future direction of the industry is to produce hats that are green and biodegradable. The shift in consumer behavior, related to the growth of environmental consciousness and a lifestyle aimed at a more sustainable attitude, lies in the background of the up going demand. In today's day and age, buyers are well-educated and are asking for products that are produced out of naturally healthy-ecofriendly materials. This change is making brands go for more sustainable practices, ethical production, and biodegradable packaging to be in line with green values and to recover lost market share due to their green actions. Today, both the global warming and a green consumerism movement have resulted in so-called alternative ways that are going to become the driving force of the winter hats market's expansion for the years to come. Challenges The seasonality of the product makes the demand for it very dependent on the coldest months of the year. Therefore, the annual sales cycle of such products sees large fluctuations. Another downside is represented by the big number of offers including cheap products that are part of the market. In this respect, it is difficult for high-end companies to maintain their position among so many cheap alternatives. Changes in the mistreatment are the death of the garment. Whereas, in the opposite situation, in case of warmer weather, or winters not being severe, the situation stays the same and there is hardly any market growth happening in the satellite. Innovation and Expansion Barbapapa's Collaboration Gives Péro's AW24 Collection a Fun Twist In September 2024, Fashion designer Aneeth Arora's Péro has debuted their Autumn/Winter 2024 collection in association with 'Barbapapa,' the beloved children's mascot that was first created in the 1970s by French authors Annette Tison and Talus Taylor. The collection's large coats and jackets include tactile appliqués of various Barbapapa characters. Hats and accessories also include the figures' recognizable cartoon eyes, which give Péro's elaborately handmade creations a whimsical appeal. A UVM Designer Uses the GORD-ON Ski Hat Brand to Turn Passion into Profit In May 2022, Emma Schacht, a 23-year-old UVM Community-Centered Design major, founded GORD-ON, a successful handcrafted ski and snowboard hat business. The goal of creating a collaborative environment is interlaced with graphic design, visual communication, tangible products, policy frameworks, and problem-solving in communities, groups, and organizations. Inventive Sparks, Expanding Markets Leading market players in the winter hats segment include The North Face, Columbia Sportswear Company, New Era Cap, Burton Snowboards, Canada Goose Inc., and some others. Producers of winter hats are moving into e-commerce and working with influencers, launching themselves in markets that are developing, creating eco-friendly, stylish fashions, and further reinforcing supply chains in order to manage the season. About Author: Prophecy is a specialized market research, analytics, marketing and business strategy, and solutions company that offer strategic and tactical support to clients for making well-informed business decisions and to identify and achieve high value opportunities in the target business area. Also, we help our client to address business challenges and provide best possible solutions to overcome them and transform their business. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
The Hindu
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Péro's spring-summer capsule Flowers Flower, explores floral whimsy and legacy textiles
After its last year's collaboration with Japan's iconic brand Hello Kitty, Péro, a 15-year-old Indian fashion label by designer Aneeth Arora, has now teamed up with British luxury department store and brand Liberty London for its spring-summer capsule 2025. Titled Flowers Flower, the collection is deeply personal to Aneeth and reflects her love for legacy. Launched in Chennai on Friday, at fashion boutique Collage, the edit brings together iconic fabrics from Liberty London and Péro's rootedness and love for Indian craft and textiles. 'Dating back to 1875, there is this old-school charm about Liberty London's prints. We have been working with flowers too and Liberty London is all about those ditsy flowers. I felt that makes us a perfect match, and we decided to work with some of their classic prints,' Aneeth says. Liberty London's fine tana lawn cotton, described as a cotton that behaves like silk, is often dotted with flower prints — forget-me-nots, daffodils, peonies and speedwell. 'For this collection, we are working with the classic Tana Lawn textile that has strong legacy, and we did not want to overpower the floral prints by using very bold textiles. The Indian textiles we have used with these prints are basic, handwoven textiles from different parts of India,' she says, of the elements that make up the garments in the whimsy collection. This includes Chanderi from Madhya Pradesh, mashru stripes from Gujarat, stripes and checks from Maheshwar, silks and solids from the South of India, and cotton from West Bengal, Aneeth says. This is a departure for Péro, where the main line often features bright influences like tartans. In Péro's signature flowy, androgynous silhouettes, the capsule has shirts, dresses, tops, jackets, skirts, pants and shorts. Liberty London's signature floral prints are layered with embroidered beadwork, fabric origami, tassels, appliqué, patchwork and custom wooden buttons. Aneeth says, at heart, she feels like Péro is becoming more childlike with time. 'Nothing is a limit for us and we don't have any inhibitions. When we started, we were working with a lot of constraints, and, over the years, we have become open to things; The brand as well is evolving in such a way that nothing seems impossible now,' she says, adding that the brand's collaborations with Hello Kitty, where it channelled a 'cottagecore kawaii', and now with Liberty London, allows it to experiment and craft without rules or constraints. 'Collaboration with an iconic brand like Hello Kitty or even dreaming of working with Liberty prints now seems possible, and something we are enjoying. I think, the brand has become mature in the way we deal with materials, but it has also become more free in terms of dreaming and knowing that if you dream you can achieve,' says Aneeth. Latha Madhu of Collage calls Péro an 'enduring' brand, a word Aneeth says is a beautiful description. 'We do timeless clothing season by season, so yes, I relate to this. Be it Chennai or any other place in the world, we are consistent in the kind of design language of the brand even though we experiment with diverse themes. There are classics that we keep repeating; some of our shapes, textiles and silhouettes are always a constant,' Aneeth says. This, Aneeth says, is probably why people come back to Péro: 'I feel that the word 'enduring' resonates, and season after season, people resonate with what we are offering to them, in spite of having such drastic changes in themes.' Flowers Flower is now available at Collage, 6, Rutland Gate, Nungambakkam.
