Press Coverage
Friday, February 26, 2010
By Marc Lewkowitz
Supima’s PREFAB being moved into Texworld USA.
When Supima first created the Premium Fabric show, called PREFAB, it was intended to provide an exclusive show for designers, and buyers for brands and retailers to be able to discover quality Supima fabrics in both wovens and knits.
PREFAB was successful in […] Continue reading
Friday, February 19, 2010
By Marc Lewkowitz
The Supima Design Competition culminates in a star-studded evening at the New York Times Center. The designers have earned the opportunity to show their collections in front of an audience of New York City’s fashion elite. The judges make their final decision and supermodel Coco Rocha is on hand to […] Continue reading
Thursday, February 18, 2010
By Marc Lewkowitz
Supima takes over the New York Times Center on the day of the runway show. The designers arrive with their final collections and begin to dress their models in preparation for the competition. But with the show scheduled to start within the hour, one of the designers still has not […] Continue reading
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
By Marc Lewkowitz
Six finalists have been provided with Supima fabrics and charged with creating four original designs. Just a week before the runway show, the judges expect to see near finished collections. To their surprise some designers arrive unprepared.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
By Marc Lewkowitz
Supima assembles a panel of prestigious judges to review twelve hopeful fashion designers. Tensions run high as only six will make it to the finals and have the opportunity to show their designs in front of New York’s Fashion elite.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
By Marc Lewkowitz
Why a contest? Why a video series? Why now?
The Whole Thing Started because Supima had something to prove. After more than five decades of successfully supplying the world’s finest cotton to the world’s finest labels, Supima’s status as the “softest” and “strongest” was a given. The fashion world already […] Continue reading
Saturday, January 30, 2010
By Marc Lewkowitz
Supima proudly hosted a fashion show of the third annual Design Competition for Emerging Designers on January 19, 2010. The fashion show was the culmination of the design competition which began on October 21, 2009 during an open casting call held at […] Continue reading
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
By Marc Lewkowitz
The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Michael Gardner reports on growing American Pima in the san Joaquin Valley.
Read the article here .
Friday, December 04, 2009
By Marc Lewkowitz
Rocco Gaglioti of Fashion News Live attended the second annual Supima Competition for Emerging Designers and discovered a whole new world of fashion made with the world’s finest cottons - Supima. His interview of the 21 designers became a discovery of how the quality of Supima fabrics inspired the […] Continue reading
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
By Greg Wang
LOS ANGELES—Known for luxe, low-key use of the best-of-the-best fibers and fabrics, Canadian-born, Italian-inspired, L.A.-based designer Enza Costa started Rogue, her line of understated tops, with silk jersey and cashmere.
Then she added Supima to the line-up.
Now her Supima designs […] Continue reading
Thursday, August 20, 2009
By CeCe Shelburne
NEW YORK—It’s the most prestigious issue of the entire year. The one that’s weighed by the pound. The one that’s used as a reference for the rest of the season.
And Supima is there.
Specifically, Supima appears in the thick, glossy September […] Continue reading
Saturday, July 18, 2009
By Greg Wang
NEW YORK — It wasn’t enough that Agave snagged the sole shirted cover of Men’s Health magazine in July.
Now Agave’s got a page in this month’s issue of Lucky magazine.
Which, as […] Continue reading
Friday, July 10, 2009
By CeCe Shelburne
NEW YORK—The July cover of Men’s Health magazine, featuring actor Josh Duhamel in a long-sleeved Agave T-shirt made of Supima, is already generating quite some controversy on the web.
After all, Duhamel skyrocketed to fame by going shirtless on the soap “All […] Continue reading
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
By CeCe Shelburne
NEW YORK —— If you’ve tuned into the Bravo TV network lately you’ve probably noticed something familiar in the promos for their next reality series.
It’s the runway segment of Supima’s Competition for Emerging Designers playing in promotional loop for NYC […] Continue reading
Sunday, March 01, 2009
By CeCe Shelburne
NEW YORK—It was only a couple of months ago that the Lilly Pulitzer brand celebrated 50 years in business by painting the town pink with this retrospective […] Continue reading