The Shows: How next Texworld, Premiere Vision and Berlin Fashion Week will be like?

In busy times as the first months of the year may shows and events are rolling out their new schedules and projects. The SPIN OFF discloses a few novelties about some of the next upcoming trade shows.

Texworld unveils its next edition’s novelties
Texworld Evolution Paris is warming up its engines for its upcoming edition, taking place from 5 to 7 February at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. 

Part of the event will be the two sections Texworld and Apparel Sourcing Paris that will host 1,260 companies presenting their s/s 2025 collections of fabrics, materials, accessories and finished products for the apparel industry. 

Texworld will host 760 companies will be representing the major sourcing countries: first and foremost, China, Korea, with around forty companies represented by the National Union of Textile Manufacturers (KOFOTI), and Turkey, which once again has around a hundred manufacturers, including 76 grouped under the banner of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO).

Together with them India and Taiwan, to name the most heavily represented delegations will participate, while Indonesia will be making a comeback with a vast range of silky products and cotton fabrics, as will Thai manufacturers, whose expertise in embroidery – a sector with a strong presence this year along with knitwear – is remarkable. 

Among others, also some European exhibitors will exhibit at the show, including Italy’s Aquilatero, taking part in Texworld for the first time. 

Apparel Sourcing, with over 500 companies specialising in finished products, will be welcoming a sizeable contingent of European manufacturers. 

A pavilion featuring nine Ukrainian companies offering a wide range of womenswear products will be highlighting the expertise of a country that has long been present in the sourcing schemes of French and European principals. 

The Denim Village will bring together a selection of international companies (Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan) offering raw materials and finished products over an area of more than 600 sq. meters.

Photo: Texworld Paris

Texworld Paris, July 2023

Discover the hottest novelties enlivening Premiere Vision
On 6, 7 and 8 February 2024, Première Vision Paris, the international event for creative fashion professionals, will return to the Parc des Expositions at Paris Nord Villepinte. 

Insiders will be able to find inspiration, share ideas and build future collections of ready-to-wear, accessories (fashion jewelry and leather goods) and footwear. 

They will discover the s/s 2025 collections of nearly 1,200 international exhibitors, including 73 newcomers (spinners, weavers, tanners, textile designers, makers of accessories and components, garment manufacturers), from 42 countries including Italy, France, Spain, Korea, Japan, the UK and more. 

Among other novelties, the show will disclose an expanded version of “A Better Way”, a program launched in July 2023, that decodes and showcases exhibitors’ efforts and investments designed to promote a more responsible fashion industry.

Photo: Maria Cristina Pavarini

Premiere Vision, trend area

For this edition of the event, this section has expanded to include two new show universes. This way Manufacturing and Smart Materials will be joining Fabrics, Yarns and Leather, which are already integrated into the program. 

Among other novelties, deadstock, fashion houses’ unused materials, will be offered by industry experts Adapta and Nona Source and, for the first time, also by L’Atelier des Matières. In addition, a special area dedicated to deadstock from PV Paris exhibitors will be featured at the show. 

A full program of 30 talks will enliven the three-day show.

Among others, on Tuesday 6 February, at 10.30 they will host “Insights on EU & International Legislative Compliance: Why do fashion brands need to start collecting data now to protect their business?” helping understandiong what priorities companies will have to focus on in sight of the new sustainability and trabnsparency law requirements.

At 12 of the same day, Nao Virtual Knitting Machine will present  an industry-first Fabric Construction Developing Simulation Software.

At 4pm, Andreas Dorner, newly named general manager, Re&Up-A Sanko Holding Company, will speak about how the newly founde company Re&Up wants to enable the fashion and textile industry to shift to circularity by reducing textile waste at scale. 

Other talks will focus on innovative materials, artificial intelligence, traceability and green claims.

Photo: Premiere Vision

Premiere Vision

How Berlin Fashion Week takes the stage
For the upcoming edition of Berlin Fashion Week, taking place from February 5th to 8th, Berlin will become the prestigious theater for new and established design talents. 

On Monday, February 5th the fashion week’s calendar will host the new event format “Intervention” organized by Berlin and Milan-based communication agency Reference Studios, conceived and curated under the direction of founder Mumi Haiati. 

The event will take place in Berlin-Neukölln in a former department store, a location whose details will be disclosed soon.

Photo: Berlin Fashion Week

Intervention’s location

The mission of “Intervention” is to create an innovative platform for national and international designers, seamlessly integrated into the official schedule of Berlin Fashion Week. 

Curated runway shows, presentations, installations, pop-ups, and showcases will bring the location’s various floors to life. Part of the concept will be shows by brands like Anonymous Club, Gerrit Jacob, and Back2Back by Yolanda Zobel & Marcelo Alcaide. 

In addition, the show of the German label Lueder on February 7th will be part of the format, creating a symbiosis between Berlin Contemporary and “Intervention”.

In addition to the Intervention shows, the ground floor of the location will host Shayne Oliver’s Mall of Anonymous, an art-centered pop-up concept serving not only as a spatial showcase for the brand Anonymous Club and numerous other brands, including the London-based menswear label Olly Shinder. 

Mall of Anonymous wants to be an experimental retail project exploring the intertwining of consumer culture, mass production, and art.

Under the title “P100”,  Reference Studios will present the Georgian prodigy designer David Koma, based in London, for the first time in Berlin at another location on February 6th throughout the day.

Additional highlights of the week will also include Der Berliner Salon, presenting the works of participant Karen Jessen in the Kreuzberg premises of the Feuerle Collection art collection. Jessen’s unique handmade clothing sculptures will be showcased in an installation that explores the boundaries between fashion and art. 

Other highlights will be the F.A.Z. Fashion Reception, and The SBLMTN Studio Phygital Fashion Showcase. This last event will take place on Wednesday, February 7th, and will combine physical design with modern digital creations, intersecting immersive environments and avatars.

Photo: Haydon Perrior, Finnegan Koichi Godenschweger

Rianna+Nina, William Fan, SF1OG, Odeeh

To conclude the Berlin Fashion Week, Studio2Retail x Studio183 will invite to the BFW Closing Party on Thursday, February 8th.

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