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Just Around the Corner: Nine brands attending for the first time

UK fashion trade show Just Around the Corner (JATC) is set to return to its home cities next week, with two events on the roster for its seventh season. While the Manchester edition, located in the city’s Freight Island venue, will run from August 2 to 3, JATC’s London show, held in Truman Brewery’s T1 and T2 spaces, will take place from August...

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JATC founder talks new zones and the importance of catering to Northern brands

With trade show season fully underway, Just Around the Corner (JATC) is also preparing its locations for the return of buyers, boasting 400 brands over a combined 60,000 square foot of space for both its London and Manchester shows. This summer, its Northern trade show will kick off the calendar, from August 2 to 3, located in Manchester’s...

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Science fiction influences shape the future of leather

Science fiction is a tool for ambitious thinkers. This was the message running through the leather trend presentation at Lineapelle in NYC last week. But just as science fiction is difficult to define, ambiguity is omnipresent in trend forecasting with references to science, technology, AI and human exploration, and the enormous global...

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Geneva luxury watch fair returns under shadow of Ukrainian war

Switzerland's top luxury watch fair will resurface this week in Geneva after two years of pandemic-induced virtual shows, but Ukraine's raging conflict and Covid lockdowns in China could dampen the mood. The Watches and Wonders show, taking place from Wednesday until April 5, will this year see 38 of the biggest high-end watch brands, including...

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Leather can become fertilizer for organic farming and other industry eco-initiatives

In a look ahead to Summer 2023, a future that is beautiful and fragile was in the forecast at Lineapelle’s New York leather fair. Human impact on the earth and its ecosystems has been so outsized that the severity of our effect has forced us to face our own fragility in recent years. But the theme intends for optimism—that moments of fragility...

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A “strong start” as in-person trade shows resume in New York

Despite Omicron upending holiday travel, New Years plans, and the Paris edition of the trade show the week before, Man/Woman carried on with their New York men’s event at the end of January, shuffling exhibitors around at the last minute to accommodate what the variant had planned for all involved. On the third and final day of the event, the...

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Lady Gaga shares her animal inspiration for Gucci film role

Lady Gaga has revealed she had some big cat inspiration for her murderous turn as a jilted ex-wife in the new movie "House of Gucci". Her performance as Patrizia Reggiani, who had fashion heir Maurizio Gucci (played by Adam Driver) assassinated in the 1990s, is already picking up Oscar buzz. And in a press conference ahead of the film's release...

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Ivory Coast’s Lifestyle and Beauty Festival aims to bring together and develop growing sectors

Abidjan- In 2017, the Ipsos Social Research Institute carried out a study entitled “the women of Africa: a central motor driving the African economy". It found that fashion and beauty occupy the second and third spot in the list of what the women of the Ivory Coast spend their disposable income on, accounting for 14 and 13 percent of their...

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In pictures: Pitti Immagine Bimbo 93

The 93rd edition of Pitti Immagine Bimbo took place in Florence’s Fortezza da Basso from June 30 to July 2, with more than 100 exhibitors present physically. The kidswear and lifestyle fair was organised as a concept store in the Quartieri Monumentali and Padiglione delle Ghiaie spaces, presenting for the first time some ‘families’ collections...

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New trade show GenovaJeans to launch in September

A new international jeans trade show is being launched in Genoa, Italy by Candiani, Diesel and Eco-Age in September to showcase the future of denim with a focus on sustainability. GenovaJeans will take place from September 2-6 in Genoa and will bring to life the “evolution, and innovation of jeans” in an experiential showcase with a series of...

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LFW in September to feature more than 100 designers

London Fashion Week (LFW) has unveiled a provisional line-up for its September edition that features more than 100 confirmed designers who will present new collections. In the statement, the British Fashion Council (BFC) said that London Fashion Week running from September 17 to 21, will return as a physical-digital hybrid event, incorporating...

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British trade show Sole Fashion postponed until February

British footwear and fashion trade show Sole Fashion has been postponed due to the pandemic. “The impact of the latest Covid variant and the government delay in the lifting of all restrictions to July 19 has resulted in our decision to postpone the Sole Fashion summer edition,” organisers of the Coventry-based show wrote on its website. “With...