FBB – India’s leading fashion destination announced its association with world’s most renowned elastane brand – LYCRA® recently to strengthen its fashion offering to Indian consumers. With this collaboration, FBB will enrich its products with better stretch and soft fabric by providing fashionable garments made with fine and extremely lightweight LYCRA® fibre.
LYCRA® fiber has set the standard as the world’s most renowned elastance fiber brand. Nearly invisible when used in fabrics, LYCRA® fiber transforms all garments into better fitting, durable clothes that move with our bodies, deliver fit, shape and comfort that lasts day after day, wash after wash and run after run.
To Celebrate this partnership, both FBB and INVISTA got together for two starstudded events in Ambiance Mall, Gurugram and Infiniti Mall, Mumbai on 11th May and 28th April, 2018 respectively. This high profile partnership was kicked off by none other than leading Bollywood celebrities, Vidyut Jammwal & Esha Gupta along with the leadership team of both the partners including Rakesh Biyani, Joint MD, Future Retail Limited & Rajesh Seth, COO FBB and Julien Born, EVP, INVISTA Apparel & Advance Textiles Business & Rebecca.Y.LI , Commercial director, ROA, INVISTA Apparel & Advance Textile Business.
With the theme ‘Bounce with LYCRA® brand’, and a trampoline setup on the ramp, models demonstrated various moves during the vibrant fashion show, highlighting the amazing stretch and comfort of the newly cut FBB collection infused with LYCRA® fiber. Event also had a special performance by a leading dance group and biking crew further taking stretch of FBB garments made with LYCRA® fiber to entirely next level.
While speaking at the event Rajesh Seth, COO, FBB, said, “FBB is being a pioneer in fashion. We are doing everything to make fashion more affordable for our customers. With this tie up with LYCRA®, we are going to bring you one of the finest collections that we have on denim and bottom wear, and price is almost one fourth of what one gets from other private shops.”
Adding to this Rebecca Li, Commercial Director, Rest of Asia, INVISTA Apparel, “We are very excited to enter into this partnership and collaboration with FBB. FBB is one of the largest and fastest growing fashion brands. They are regularly developing exciting products and designs. So we are happy to be with them in launching their latest collection with LYCRA®. LYCRA® is a global brand and which can make the garment extremely comfortable with shape retention and freedom of movement. Hope customers enjoy this latest fashion from FBB with more innovations and fashion to come.”
With leading brands including LYCRA®, COOLMAX®, CORDURA®, STAINMASTER® and ANTRON®, INVISTA is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibres. The company’s advantaged technologies for nylon, spandex and polyester are used to produce clothing, carpet, car parts and countless other everyday products. Headquartered in the United States, INVISTA operates in more than 20 countries and has about 10,000 employees.
“We are in co-operations with FBB for last one year. Starting from design of the new clutches, now lot of stretch is coming from denim, so it’s a big trend from low stretch, high stretch to double and single stretches. Consumers are looking for comfort and they don’t want to be constraint, and also they want is the freedom. LYCRA® really brings the garment comfort, shape retention and stability in terms of the quality, which are our products benefits. On top of that LYCRA® is a global brand so has very good consumer recognition and preference. FBB actually is fast growing retailer and our relation with them is built to enhance the stretch garment, quality and also consumer experience,” said Rebecca.
Commenting on the Indian market she said, “This is a fast growing region, especially when it comes to purchasing capabilities and manufacturing base of textile, from both directions it’s giving very good business to us. In India we see good future because the country has huge population which is our potential customers. As far as biggest markets for Lycra are concerned, considering the consumer base and purchasing power it’s still the Western countries. E.g. Europe and the US are still very big consumption market. In terms of emerging markets China is very good market followed by India for us.”
“This is just the beginning of new co-operation with FBB, as other things are under development which you’ll see in future. FBB has upgraded whole of their denim collections into LYCRA® and also we might have some co-operations in leggings. Next we are discussing on the collaboration on the sportswear. So, there are a lot of things we can do in future”
