Messe Frankfurt has decided to run the Heimtextil expo concurrently with Techtextil and Texprocess. Originally scheduled from January. 04-07, the show will now be held from May 04-07. It will take place alongside Techtextil and Texprocess in Frankfurt.

Joining Heimtextil with the two other textile fairs will present visitors with the entire textile value chain at the same time on the Frankfurt exhibition grounds.

For the first time, Messe Frankfurt will make its Nextrade digital marketplace available to customers of Heimtextil, Christmasworld and Creativeworld to extend their physical trade fair participation and allow orders to be placed all year round.

The digital B2B marketplace for the Home & Living sector matches supply and demand. Ambiente, Tendence and Nordstil have been using the portal and its ordering and data management services since 2019.

In another shift, the Ambiente, Christmasworld and Paperworld shows will be making a once-only appearance as a joint event in Frankfurt am Main from April 17-20 as the International Consumer Goods Show – Special Edition. The physical event will be actively supplemented with digital offerings as part of Consumer Goods Digital Days, which will also be home to the purely digital Creativeworld, an event that is taking a one year hiatus as a physical meeting place in 2021.

To be held from September 23-25, 2020, in Shanghai, Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition will welcome 3,400 exhibitors from 20 countries and regions. Along with pavilions and dedicated product zones, the inaugural Hybrid Showcase will allow exhibitors who cannot attend the fair, to showcase their products in a designated display area.

Along with the international pavilions, the eight exhibition halls spanning over 200,000 square meters will also include a number of product zones and group pavilions. The comprehensive product zones includes Accessories Vision, Beyond Denim, Premium Wool Zone, Verve for Design, All About Sustainability and Functional Lab. A wide range of innovative exhibitors will feature in this year’s Group Pavilions which includes Button & Garment Accessories Industry Chamber (Hong Kong), DuPont Trading (China), Ecocert (China), Hyosung group (Korea), Lycra (USA), KTC (Korea), Lenzing Fibers (Hong Kong), and Oeko-Tex Pavilion (Switzerland).

The ITM 2021 Exhibition will be held between June 22-26 2021 in Istanbul. The exhibition will enable textile machinery manufacturers to also be known internationally ITM 2021 Exhibition to be held between 22 and 26 June 2021.

The Turkish textile industry has increased its textile exports unlike many countries during the pandemic. The Turkish companies, which engaged in the production of high-quality masks and protective textiles in hygienic conditions, by using the advantages of early delivery due to Turkey’s geographical position have become an alternative compared to the companies in China. They have also become important for European countries, which have turned their route to nearby producers for supply.

Turkey’s most important export product in the January–June 2020 period was technical textiles. This product group, which constitutes 27.2 percent of total textile exports, achieved an increase of 43.9 percent compared to the same period of last year and reached the level of $1.1 billion. The export of technical textile products in June was calculated as $318 million with an increase of 202 percent.

Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) and Messe Stuttgart, organizers of R+T in Stuttgart, Germany; R+T Turkey in Istanbul, Turkey; R+T Asia in Shanghai, China and R+T South America in Sao Paulo, Brazil, plan to co-organize IFAI Expo with Messe Stuttgart’s new US show named Sun Shading Expo North America beginning in Nashville, November 02–04, 2021.

These two events will bring together the textiles industry’s leading companies, latest innovations in equipment and textiles and valuable education, highlighting ways textile companies can provide high quality solutions for commercial businesses and consumers. Co-locating shows will provide unprecedented value in the opportunity to connect with customers, suppliers, end-product manufacturers and industry counterparts.

This co-location will open opportunities for attendees to increase their business in textiles used for both internal and external textiles applications. IFAI Expo features specialty, advanced and industrial textile solutions with the largest contingency of attendees and exhibitors representing exterior sun protection.

Messe Stuttgart’s Sun Shading Expo will deliver a show and education focused on the internal sun protection marketplace, in part, as they do through their R+T Trade Shows in Germany, China and Turkey. R+T produces the leading world trade fair for roller shutters, doors/gates and sun protection systems.

US-based fashion technology provider The Ohzone Inc, plans an interactive fashion show as the closing event of New Era Virtual Fashion Week on September 27, 2020. Featuring 10 exclusive designs, this virtual fashion show will use 3D technology developed by The Ohzone, Inc. This will support the interactive capabilities of show and enable attendees to virtually hop onto the runway to stop a fashion model, rotate him/her to inspect different angles of the worn garment.

Attendees will also be able to zoom in the garment to closely examine its design details like colors, fabric textures and patterns. The OHZONE Inc will produce 3Dreal versions of runway looks of international fashion designers along with animation in order to offer attendees the opportunity to shop live on their own terms.

Award-winning Fashion Community Week, San Francisco will host its first-ever digital fashion week from September 24-27. The fashion week will also have a global fashion conference to discuss the future of fashion.

To take charge of the Europe’s fragmented resale market, e-commerce retailer Zalando has launched a range of pre-owned clothing,. The retailer collected, curated, quality assured and photographed this collection and is now selling it in Germany and Spain. It also plans to launch the collection in four more countries next month.

The Berlin-headquartered retailer hopes the multi-brand consignment will appeal to customers. The move offers the retailer new lines of revenue as the resale market is expected to more than double in five years to $51 billion by 2023, predicts GlobalData. Prior to this, Zalando experimented with secondhand retail both offline and online for two years. The company operated a pop-up bricks-and-mortar resale store in Berlin last autumn and has been selling womenswear via a separate app called Zalando Wardrobe since 2018.

Zalando’s new range has been carefully curated to appeal to its 34 million strong customer base. It currently sells 20,000 items on the site. The company plans to collect inventory directly from its consumer base. Customers will be able to sell 20 items at a time to Zalando, receiving credit on the site or making a donation to charity in return for their contribution for anything the retailer decides to buy.

Acceding to the request of Sri Lanka’s Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAF), the Finance Ministry has permitted apparel manufacturers approved by the Board of investment (BOI) to engage in local sales or to undertake sub-contracts from retailers or suppliers for three months starting from September 10 subject to conditions.

The apparel manufacturers approved by the Board of Investment can undertake sub-contracts to the domestic retailers to manufacture apparel products using duty paid fabric (raw material), supplied by domestic retailers/suppliers. This will be subject to payment of relevant taxes on income generated from such contracts as per provisions of the BOI agreements and the Inland Revenue Act.

JAAF had made this proposal with the objective of utilizing the excess capacity available at these BOI-approved factories and to generate an extra income for them during these trying times. According to the federation, if the industry calls for an extension of the blanket period, it was ready to shepherd fresh discussions with the Government and other relevant authorities.

French fashion’s governing body, Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has revealed that 19 fashion houses will stage actual physical shows at the upcoming Paris Fashion Week. Some fashion brands to hold live catwalk shows this season are: Christian Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Issey Miyake, Hermès and Rick Owens.

In all, 84 fashion houses will participate in the Paris Fashion Week to be staged between September 28 and October 6. The season will feature spring-summer 2021 women’s ready-to-wear collections. Around 20 fashion houses will organize physical presentations while another 45 brands will produce digital displays. The brands that will stage live shows include Coperni, Victoria/Tomas, Kenzo, Gauchère, Acne, Balmain, Chloé, Isabel Marant, Yohji Yamamoto, Ami, Gabriela Hearst and Xuly Bet.

Spinning mills in Andhra Pradesh are facing severe labour shortage as many migrant workers have gone back due to mill closures during lockdown. According to Spinning Mills Association sources, spinning mills in the state engage around 3,000 workers in three shifts. Currently, the state has 72 spinning mills that employ over one lakh workers. Workers who migrated to their native places during the pandemic have not returned. As a result, these mills are facing 30 percent labor shortage resulting in reduced production.

Mills in the state that earlier produced yarn worth Rs30 crore a day now produce only Rs15 crore per day of yarn. Also, cotton yarns are not been exported due to COVID-19. Earlier, most of these spinning mills worked three shifts, now they work in only two shifts.

The revenues of these mills have also gone down due to cut in production. As a result, owners are not in a position to pay loan installments in time resulting rise in NPAs from 25 percent to 80percent.

Nine small and medium-sized garment factories are in big trouble as German retailer Colloseum has refused to pay them on the pretext of being hit by the coronavirus pandemic, says a Daily Star report. The company bought T-shirts, polo shirts and sweaters worth $15 lakh from the Bangladeshi suppliers between December last year and February this year through its Hong Kong vendor. Some of these suppliers are: Kappa Fashion Wear, Base Fashion Wear, Dynasty Sweater (BD), Bakhrabad Knitting Industries, Anzir Apparels, IRIS Fashions, Gramtech Knit Dyeing & Garment Industries Ltd, Seo Wan Bangladesh and Disney Sweater.

These suppliers have served Colloseum with a legal notice. However, the retailer is still not ready to pay, and purchases goods from Bangladesh in another name, several suppliers say. Kappa Fashions has been supplying T-shirts and polo shirts to the retailer for the last five years. The company exports $10 million worth of garment items every year and 5 per cent of the consignment goes to the stores of Colloseum.

Another supplier Md Ehterab Hossain sold $5.66 lakh worth of t-shirts and polo shirts, the highest amount among the nine suppliers. A consignment involving $96,000 was brought back from the Chattogram port's store after paying Tk 2 lakh in demurrage in the last moment.

Mohammad Hatem, Vice-President, BGMEA said the association has received complaints against Colloseum from its members. KI Hossain, president of the Bangladesh Garment Buying House Association, added many buying houses are facing the challenge of non-payment. He advised brands and retailers to honor their purchase orders.