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Supima to establish new benchmark on traceability with TextileGenesis

Supima, the brand for American-grown Pima cotton, has announced a strategic partnership with TextileGenesis to establish a new industry benchmark platform for authenticating cotton to improve traceability. The Supima blockchain platform powered by TextileGenesis will digitally connect Supima’s comprehensive supply chain from the growers to the...

14 Jun 2022

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Six schools represent future of fashion for Supima Design Competition 2021

The Supima Design Competition returned to the runway on Thursday for the first time since Covid forced it into virtual format. Judging by the intensity of color, playful volumes and variety of textile design on display the six finalists were determined to seize the day as one of the first milestones in their burgeoning design careers. Founded in...

13 Sept 2021

Fashion

Supima design competition returning to NYFW

The Supima Design Competition will be returning to New York Fashion Week. The competition will be sponsored by Supima, the nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the use of American grown Pima cotton. This marks the 14th year of the competition. Design students will be showcasing evening wear capsule collections created with Pima cotton...

20 Aug 2021

Fashion

Supima design competition returning to NYFW

The Supima Design Competition will be returning to New York Fashion Week. The competition will be sponsored by Supima, the nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the use of American grown Pima cotton. This marks the 14th year of the competition. Design students will be showcasing evening wear capsule collections created with Pima cotton...

20 Aug 2021

Fashion Featured

Supima offers design grads platform to shine in dark times

Amid the upheaval wrought by a global pandemic Supima in a superstition-defiant move has decided that its 13th Annual Supima Cotton Design Competition must proceed. In fact the organization felt that it was more important than ever to stage the competition this year as fashion graduates across the country struggle to secure jobs or even just...

23 Jul 2020

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Supima show begins NYFW as contest enters second decade

The Supima design competition officially entered its second decade with its runway show on the opening day of NYFW. Vice President of Marketing & Promotions, Buxton Midyette, revealed to FashionUnited backstage that the contest has become more high-profile than ever, not least because they have partnered with that esteemed European competition...

7 Sept 2018