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The Sustainable Angle’s Future Fabrics Expo 2024

The Sustainable Angle is excited to announce that the FUTURE FABRICS EXPO 2024 will take place on the 25-26th June from 9 am-6 pm, returning again to Magazine London, a state-of-the-art 3200 square metres space, overlooking the river Thames and Canary Wharf. Since 2011, the annual Future Fabrics Expo (FFE) is the largest dedicated sourcing...

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TheOneMilano fair is set to host its September exhibition alongside Milano Fashion&Jewels

The premium daywear fair, TheOneMilano, is set to host its September exhibition alongside Milano Fashion&Jewels. Scheduled during Milan’s womenswear fashion week at the city’s Fiera exhibition center from September 14th to 17th, the event will run concurrently with the costume jewelry fair Milano Fashion&Jewels. This strategic alignment with...

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Copenhagen Fashion Week announces spring/summer 2025 lineup

Copenhagen Fashion Week (CPHFW) has confirmed that 46 brands and institutions will make up the spring/summer 2025 event, which takes place from August 5 to 9. Brands on the schedule include returning brands such as A. Roege Hove, (Di)vision, Jade Cropper, Latimmier, Stine Goya, Rabens Saloner, Remain, and Sak Potts, alongside emerging designers...

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Copenhagen's new Mandatory CPH trade fair starts in June

The Danish capital is getting a new trade fair in June. Under the confident name of Mandatory CPH, it will bring Scandinavian and international brands together with buyers. According to its website, Mandatory CPH will take place from 26 to 28 June at Øksnehallen, an exhibition space in Copenhagen's Vesterbro district. The events itself will...

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Kingpins Amsterdam through the eyes of three denim buyers

International denim sourcing fair Kingpins is a regular fixture for many denim professionals. So too for buyers from Butcher of Blue, Kuyichi and Jeans Centre. What are their reasons for visiting the Amsterdam edition, what sort of things do they hope to find at Kingpins and what have they already spotted at the fair? For all three buyers we...

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Robert Talbott to make debut appearance at Pitti Uomo

American heritage menswear brand Robert Talbott will make its debut appearance at men’s fashion trade show Pitti Uomo in Florence in June. The move is described as a “significant milestone” in the brand’s journey and will introduce the first collection by new creative director Sebastian Dollinger, who joined in March to reestablish the label as...

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Circular Textile Days 2024: September 18 & 19

The fourth edition of Circular Textile Days will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, September 18 & 19. The event, dedicated to circularity in the textile industry, facilitates a platform for organisations of various countries to come together and to showcase the latest developments, gain knowledge about European laws and regulations and...

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Paul Smith to open Pitti Uomo with SS25 menswear collection

British fashion designer Paul Smith is set to open the Florentine men’s fashion fair Pitti Uomo for its 106th edition with the unveiling of a spring/summer 2025 collection. The brand is scheduled to host its menswear presentation on June 11, open to buyers and press alike in what the designer said would be a more personal setting. In a release...

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France's Marine Serre named next guest designer of Pitti Uomo

Marine Serre, founder and creative director of her eponymous fashion brand, is the next guest designer of Italian menswear trade show Pitti Uomo 106, fair organisers announced in a press release. Serre will show her SS25 collection on 12 June 2024 at Pitti Uomo, which, as always, takes place in Florence. The exact location of her show will...

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CPHFW releases first sustainability requirements revisions - what does this mean for participating brands?

In 2020, as the first fashion week, Copenhagen Fashion Week developed its own sustainability requirements in collaboration with Danish consultancies Rambøll and In Futurum and the Danish industry association Dansk Fashion and Textile. Since then, participating brands have been selected based on a carefully weighted point system, which considers...

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Fatih Bilici (Texhibition Istanbul): "Our income comes exclusively from stand rentals"

Three questions for Fatih Bilici, Vice President of the Turkish Textile Exporters Association (ITHIB), organiser of the Texhibition Istanbul sourcing fair. Does the Turkish government provide financial assistance for organising the Texhibition Istanbul fair? As an association, we do not need to organise a fair, but Turkish textile companies have...

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Texhibition Istanbul March 2024 focuses on denim and a move upmarket

From 6 to 8 March 2024, Texhibition Istanbul brought together 25,752 visitors from 112 countries and 560 exhibitors of fabrics and accessories for the spring/summer 2025 collections. The fifth edition of the fair offered the opportunity to discover the most important materials produced by Turkish companies as well as a new denim area. It was...