Our Partners at Ciel Textiles

Creare Group partnered with Ciel Textiles provides a design collaboration with brands like no one else, offering directional collections catered precisely to our clients’ DNA. Creare NY office works closely with our brands throughout each season, where we are able to design and develop within your brands direction. We then work meticulously with our factories to translate your brands’ needs to create the perfect product for your stores or websites.

Our brands are loyal to us and our factories because we offer high quality products, with added full package design capabilities as a value PLUS: duty free and vertical speed to market production – not to mention the most beautiful scenery to come and visit during a production trip.

Mauritius is a tiny island located in the beautiful Indian Ocean, about a one-hour flight from the larger, more well-known island of Madagascar to its west.

Duty Free

Working with Creare and Ciel Textiles means having duty-free production in Mauritius, to the US and Europe and duty-free production in Madagascar to the US, Canada, and Europe.

Verticality

Our Ciel partners help make Creare the one-stop-shop with mills and factories working hand-in-hand. All of Creare’s garment factories have their own vertical mill to create a further ease of manufacturing and speed to market. In Mauritius and Madagascar we have 3 mills:

  • Cotona- our mill producing woven fabric for shirts in Madagascar

  • CDL – our mill producing knit fabric for shirts

  • Ferney – the sweater yarn woolen mill 

Design Capabilities

Our design staff makes it possible for your brands to be hands off, and let us take over all aspects of design and development, including: fabrics, silhouettes, specs, BOM’s, full TP’s, fit sessions, cad work, and provide full logistics servicing of costing, and shipping to your door!



Aquarelle Group

Aquarelle Group focuses on casual, casual luxury, young fashion, classic modern, sportwear, prints and indigo shirting capabilities with factories located in Mauritius, Madagascar, and India. Additionally, each factory has access to fabric collections from Italian mill Monti and numerous other European mills located in India. Aquarelle’s factories in Mauritius and Madagascar are leaders in garment dyes, sophisticated washes and finishes, and expertise in novelty designs across the men’s woven shirting market.

While indigo and denim are not the only facets of Aquarelle’s India factory, their LEED platinum certification as well as indigo and denim shirting capabilities exceed far past expectations. The Aquarelle India team is constantly working on cutting edge laser, wash, dye, discharge, and patching techniques.



Aquarelle - Women’s Team

Turning around top-quality product from the top leading brands in the women’s shirting market is an everyday task for the women’s team. Located in Mauritius, the design team creates 12 coveted, European designed collections each year for their brands to use. We specialize in women’s casual, sportswear, formal, and classic categories using yarn dyes, piece dyes, and sophisticated washes. Additionally, the team is the product leader for yarn dye checks, garment dyes, tie-dyes, and fancy dyeing. Utilizing its vertical integration abilities with Cotona Madagascar, we operate with high quality designs at a remarkable speed while still remaining duty free.

Laguna

Luxury European fabrics combined with a dress shirt signature make Laguna a top choice among the formal shirting factories. A joint venture with Tessitura Monti of Italy and Aquarelle Group from Ciel, Laguna’s two factories are located in Mauritius and India. Whether pattern or silhouette designing, your design process will be severely simplified with exclusive design support from Monti Italy, Monti India, and Cotona Madagascar.

Laguna’s factories are most known in the shirting world for their superior Wrinkle-Free, Non-Iron, Easy-Care, liquid ammonia (both dry and moist), and post cure finishing capabilities. Laguna India specializes in high quality shirting, and speed to market capabilities with high end fabrics. Focusing on high-end formal and semi-formal dress shirts, Laguna uses only fine count fabrics cut and stitched by highly trained workers to create the best effortless formal dress shirts.

 

Tropic Knits

One of the leading knit cut-and-sew manufactures, Tropic Knits in Mauritius, Madagascar, and India consist of professionals trained in garment wash, pigment and reactive dying, printing, knit embroidery, applique, burnouts, tie-dye, for both menswear and womenswear. Tropic is made up of Merino Wool experts working in fine knits and creating high quality knitwear only. Specializing in casual, sportswear, urban chic, and lifestyle categories, Tropic stays at the height of the fashion trends through their constant fabric development through evolving new fibers, knitting structures, or special finishes. This fabric development includes their technical fabric division that created the impressive HeatGen and StayNew performance fabrics. Tropic houses huge design, research, and development teams who are constantly pushing the edge of trends globally.

 

Floreal Knitwear

Floreal has been producing high quality sweaters for over four decades in Mauritius. Housing state of the art machinery knitting 5g up to 14g and some special hand knits, Floreal also has fully fashioned garments on Shima machine capabilities. Garment and hank dyeing processes used for flexibility and look, specialization in easy-care finishing, and expertise in finishing wool and noble yarns to a very high standard can be found across both of Floreal’s menswear and womenswear collections. Floreal is vertically integrated with Ferney Spinning Mill in Mauritius who specialize in woolen sweater yarns, allowing your final garment to become the most technically and ethically compliant. The Floreal in-house design team is constantly leading the way with they convey dye techniques, and stitch nuances to make your garments.

Streamlining supply chains. Automating and streamlining speed to market.

Providing solutions to reduce wastage. Improving planning processes with factory efficiencies.