Move away from brocade sarees and suits, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja shows us a new way of wearing brocade. The fashionista was spotted in a mauve and blue brocade blazer and flared pants, paired with a frilled-collar, white shirt. The actor's known to be pushing boundaries with her fashion choices and this time, we couldn't be more impressed!

Consulting firm BCG&nbsp;has estimated that the global fashion and luxury market should get ready for a decline of&nbsp;$85 to $120 billion in sales and losses upwards of $450 billion&nbsp;in 2020. BCG's fashion and luxury head added that while the 2008 crisis spared a large part of the wealthier class, the current health emergency affects all sections equally. Additionally, while the demand in the Chinese market may recover soon, sales may not rise as luxury production in Europe remains shut under national lockdowns.&nbsp;

According to a Reuters report, the three-week nationwide lockdown has left about 300,000 Indian garment workers stranded in cramped factory hostels,&nbsp;where rooms are shared by up to a dozen people and&nbsp;social distancing is difficult to practice. This is raising serious&nbsp;concerns that workers living in such accommodations&nbsp;in Tamil Nadu&nbsp;could unknowingly be spreading the virus, says the report.&nbsp;About 40,000 garment factories and spinning mills operate in Tamil Nadu, with many running hostels on their premises to house their staff - most of whom are young women and migrant workers, states the report.&nbsp;

After similar announcements from several&nbsp;other brands, The Armani Group has also said that all four of its production sites in Italy are now making&nbsp;single-use medical overalls for health care staffers working to save lives amid the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;Italy has been in lockdown since March 9&nbsp;to contain the spread of the virus and the death toll has passed 10,000 in the European nation.

Swedish fast fashion retailer H&amp;M has become the first to come to the rescue of its suppliers, who are largely based in Bangladesh and India. The retailer announced that it will take the shipment of its products that have already been produced, as many of its competitors cancel orders amid store closures owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. 'We will stand by our commitments to our garment manufacturing suppliers,' the retailer said in a statement.&nbsp;

Joining the Covid-19 fight, Indian designer Sabyasachi&nbsp;has pledged Rs. 10 million from his personal funds towards the&nbsp;Prime Minister&rsquo;s National Relief Fund and Rs. 5 million the Chief Minister of West Bengal&rsquo;s Relief Fund. The Kolkata-based fashion designer, who's known to dress global celebrities, announced the news on Instagram.&nbsp;

Joining the battle against the global coronavirus pandemic, American shoe manufacturing company Crocs announced that it is giving away free footwear to health care workers on the frontline of the battle in the United States. The new campaign&nbsp;allows medical staff like doctors and nurses to choose a free pair under two of the brands' categories. The company is willing to ship up to 10,000 pairs a day to assist health care workers in a show of respect towards them.

Some of the biggest fashion events on the global calendar, Paris and London's&nbsp;Men's Fashion Week, New York's Resort Week and France's&nbsp;Haute&nbsp;Couture Week have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, announced the organisers on March 27. The events were due to take place in June and July. While the Italian fashion body has said that the Milan's Men's Fashion Week will be postponed and merged with the women's Fashion Week, set to take place in September 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;

An informal group formed by designer Navonil Das of Kolkata fashion label Dev r Nil has written a letter to Minister of Textiles Smriti&nbsp;Irani and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises&nbsp;Nitin Gadkari&nbsp;with an appeal to support&nbsp;karigars, designers and local&nbsp;artisans across all sectors, according to a report by publication The Voice Of Fashion. The appeal lists five points including unemployment&nbsp;pay cover, delay in utility bill payments and freeze on rental dues.&nbsp;The signatories include Abraham &amp; Thakore, Gaurav Gupta, Tarun Tahiliani, Nikhil Thampi, and&nbsp;Rohit Bal among many others.&nbsp;&nbsp;

To meet the needs arising from the coronavirus crisis, Prada&nbsp;announced that it will be producing&nbsp;110,000 medical masks by 6 April.&nbsp;Luxury brand Gucci has also said it will make more than 1 million masks.&nbsp;High-street brands are similarly shifting their focus. Spanish-owned Zara&nbsp;shared that it has&nbsp;already donated 10,000 masks and a further 300,000 were due to be sent. H&amp;M Group said it would be rearranging its supply chain to produce protective equipment for hospitals and healthcare workers.

Fashion designer Anita Dongre has announced that she is donating Rs 1.5 crores as a medical fund to support small vendors and self-employed artisans working with her amid the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. In a statement posted on Instagram, the designer said that the&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;in India to avoid the spread of the disease will affect small vendors the most and her foundation has decided to take care of the medical emergencies arising out of that.&nbsp;

Amid growing cases of the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;worldwide, supermodel Naomi Campbell elevated her airport look wearing a full hazmat suit! As a precaution, she boarded the flight in a white suit with goggles, pink gloves and a blue face mask and shared the photos on her Instagram account with the caption "Safety First Next Level". She even informed her fans that a full video was on its way on her YouTube channel.

Italian luxury fashion designer Giorgio Armani has donated $1.4 million to hospitals in Italy to aid the fight against coronavirus. The donation has been divided between four hospitals in Italy and some other emergency institutions. The news comes right after the designer postponed his Cruise Fashion Show to November as a precautionary measure.

One of fashion&rsquo;s biggest nights, the Met Gala, has been indefinitely postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The event&nbsp;was scheduled to take place on 4 May. The gala raises money for The Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s Costume Exhibit. The event is a star-studded one and was&nbsp;attended&nbsp;by the likes of Lady Gaga, Priyanka&nbsp;Chopra, Jennifer Lopez and Serena Williams last year.&nbsp;

People are finding novel ways to deal with the novel coronavirus&nbsp;boredom. American writer Rachel Syme&nbsp;asked people to wear something from their closet that they never wear and post a picture of it. Twitterati&nbsp;did not shy away from showing off their never-worn clothing items. From ballgowns and high-fashion dresses bought on sale to fancy hats and bunny ears -- people did not shy away for #distancebutmakeitfashion.&nbsp;

After reports of a shortage of face masks in New York due to the coronavirus pandemic, designer Christian Siriano has decided to step in. He's offered to make free face masks for medical service workers. Governor Andrew Cuomo accepted the offer that was made on Twitter. The thread of tweets has inspired designers and others capable of sewing.

The newest cartoon on Disney Junior features a young Indian girl and fans can't seem to wait.&nbsp;Debuting both in the United States and India on March 20th, the show&nbsp;&ldquo;Mira, Royal Detective"&nbsp;incorporates the cultures of India and is centered around Mira, a young girl who is named by the queen of fictional Jalpur.&nbsp;The actors voicing the characters include&nbsp;Kal Penn, Freida Pinto, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Jameela Jamil. The intent was to make the show as true to its Indian inspiration as possible.

A couple tied the knot in Navi&nbsp;Mumbai's&nbsp;Vashi area, wearing face masks as fears of the coronavirus pandemic continue to rise. It was a small affair with 50 people. Guests too were given masks and sanitizers. For the safety of everyone, packaged food was provided at the wedding.&nbsp;

Owing to global store closures in lieu of the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, fashion retailers in Spain are bracing for losses upwards of 7 billion Euros, reports Women's Wear Daily.&nbsp;Zara, Primark and H&amp;M are just some of the big names set to face major ripples in the high street. Zara&nbsp;alone has been forced to shutter almost 4,000 stores all over the world&nbsp;amidst nation-wide&nbsp;lockdowns. Other companies predicting losses including Capri Holdings, Jimmy Choo, Michael Kors-parent company that expects a dip in revenue of $100 million in the next quarter. Coach and Kate Spade-owner Tapestry is bracing for almost $250 million losses in sales in the second half of 2020.&nbsp;

Joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, German sportswear giant Adidas announced the closure of its own stores along with Reebok-owned stores temporarily in Europe, Canada and North America. The stores will be closed till the 29th of March. The news comes after rivals Nike and Under Armour Inc among other companies announced their temporary closures in a few markets on Sunday. Adidas said that that it expected first-quarter sales to drop by up to 1 billion euros in greater China and to fall more than 10 per cent overall as it reels from store closures, supply disruptions and the suspension of this year's NBA season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As the coronavirus pandemic&nbsp;grows,&nbsp;LVMH,&nbsp;the parent company of Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Marc Jacobs and more, is gearing up to aid France's health authorities by using its&nbsp;perfume &amp; cosmetics production sites to manufacture hydroalcoholic gel. Beginning&nbsp;Monday, the factories are going to make hand sanitizers, which will be delivered free of charge, according to a statement by the group.&nbsp;

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