UKFT has announced the updates on international textile shows. UKFT helps fashion and textile companies exhibit at a range of international events including Pitti Uomo, Playtime Paris, Première Vision, Intertextile Shanghai, Heimtextil, and Paris Fashion Week. It also provide export grants on behalf of the department for international trade.
The Paris and Shanghai textile shows are expected to go ahead on their originally planned dates. The fashion and footwear show scene, however, is more complicated. Most shows originally scheduled for June and July are looking to go ahead from September onwards on the assumption that there are no further outbreaks of Covid-19 and that exhibitors and collections are able to travel.UKFT has announced the updates on international textile shows. UKFT helps fashion and textile companies exhibit at a range of international events including Pitti Uomo, Playtime Paris, Première Vision, Intertextile Shanghai, Heimtextil, and Paris Fashion Week. It also provide export grants on behalf of the department for international trade.#
In a number of cases, men’s and pre-editions of shows are looking to align with existing womenswear dates with Paris, the most notable, being in the first week of October. This is an interesting new trend as it potentially gives strength in numbers, and is in line with many of the newer fashion weeks, enabling menswear and womenswear collections to be bought at the same time, according to a press release by UKFT.
The Berlin Fashion Week and Playtime Paris will be held online and dates will be announced soon. Pitti Uomo will be held from September 2-4, 2020, Pitti Bimbo will be held on September 9-10, 2020. Who’s Next Paris will be held from September 4-5, 2020, and Unique by Eurovet will be held from September 5-7, 2020. Première Vision Paris will be held from September 15-17, 2020.
Intertextile Shanghai will be held from September 23-25, 2020. New York Women’s Fashion Week will be held from September 20-24, 2020. Paris Men’s, Pre and Splash and Paris Women’s Fashion Week will be held from October 1-6, 2020.
Most of the Berlin shows (Premium/Seek and Panorama/Selvedge Run) have cancelled their physical events but will be offering a virtual alternative. Details on the platforms should follow soon. Neonyt have yet to make an announcement but are likely to follow suit.
Unique has announced that it will go back to its original timeslot alongside Who’s Next in Paris. The childrenswear show Playtime has announced that it will not run a physical show, preferring to promote its www.playologie.com online format which is already popular with buyers.
The situation in the US is less clear. The New York Men’s events MRket, Project, and Liberty will show at the same time as Coterie, Capsule NYC, and Woman NYC. The Miami Swim Week events are still currently scheduled to be held from July 11-14, 2020. This seems problematic and further announcements are expected.
MAGIC and the other Las Vegas Fashion Week events are sticking to their original dates from August 17-19, 2020, but this may need to be kept under close watch. The same also applies to the Chicago Menswear Collective currently scheduled to be held from August 2-4, 2020. The Chicago Mart is looking at dates to see whether it is feasible to move the show into September or later.
Most trade shows and showrooms are determined to get back to business as soon as possible, but it is not clear which international retailers will choose to travel and, once there, what budgets they may have. The online platforms and showrooms can potentially address the issue of retailers who are unable to travel but we know that many stores have excess stock on their hands for Spring/Summer 2020. Some are looking at representing this in 2021.
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