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Fashion Week Istanbul to place spotlight on Turkish fashion

Fashion Week Istanbul launches today with a virtual four-day event featuring 30 established and upcoming designers, including Dice Kayek and Zeynep Tosun, who have all produced short films to showcase their collections. This season the biannual event is being relaunched by the Istanbul Ready-to-Wear and Apparel Exporters’ Association (IHKIB),...

13 Apr 2021

Fairs

Geneva opens virtually before physical event in Shanghai

Geneva's international expo of fine watches opened Wednesday with an online 2021 edition before shifting next week to Shanghai, where the coronavirus is under control. The fair, one of the major annual gatherings for luxury watchmakers, was cancelled last year due to the pandemic but is going ahead virtually this year. The Salon International de...

7 Apr 2021

Fairs

080 Barcelona Fashion confirms 27th edition

The 27th edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion will once again be presented digital this year and will feature 22 designers and fashion brands. The fashion event will take place from April 26 to 29 in a digital format due to the “exceptional situation resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic,” explained organisers in a statement, as well as its desire to...

1 Apr 2021

Fairs

Pitti Uomo: Summer dates revealed for physical show

Italian menswear trade show Pitti Uomo is set to return this summer. The event’s organiser Pitti Immagine announced Tuesday the physical event will take place between 15 and 17 June at its usual location, the Fortezza da Basso in Florence. It comes after the event was cancelled several times in the past year due to the pandemic, with a digital...

9 Mar 2021

Fairs

Hyve Group in ‘strong’ position to weather Covid-19 crisis

Hyve Group, the company behind UK trade shows Pure London, Moda, Jacket Required and Scoop, said in a Q1 update Thursday that it has a “strong platform to weather the Covid-19 crisis”. In the first quarter of the year, the group ran eight events - including ones in Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and China - bringing the total number of events it has...

21 Jan 2021

Fairs

Scoop and Pure London to unite for September 2021 concept show

UK trade show organiser Hyve Group has announced that its Scoop and Pure London fairs will come together for a September 2021 concept show. Scoop X Pure will run between 12-14 September 2021 at London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery, where Scoop has previously taken place, and will highlight the most exciting collections and labels across the Scoop and...

10 Dec 2020

Fairs

Pitti Uomo pushed back to February

Leading Italian menswear trade show Pitti Uomo, scheduled to take place in January, has now been pushed back to February due to Covid-19. The event’s organiser Pitti Immagine said it will now take place from 21-23 February, alongside its yarn and knitting trade show Filati and kidswear show Bimbo. Pitti Immagine was forced to cancel the physical...

19 Nov 2020

Fairs

In pictures: Uniqlo’s “Museum of Tomorrow” at CIIE

Japanese apparel retailer Uniqlo participated in the China International Import Expo (CIIE) for the first time this year, which took place from 5th to 10th November in Shanghai. Part of Uniqlo’s presentation was “The Art and Science of LifeWear,” Uniqlo’s LifeWear global brand exhibition, which took place in New York, Paris and London in...

16 Nov 2020

Fairs

Pure London and Scoop February editions cancelled, focus now on digital platform

UK trade show organiser Hyve Group has announced its Pure London and Scoop shows scheduled to take place in February have been cancelled due to ongoing Covid-19 disruption and will instead be replaced by a digital forum. The next physical editions of the two London trade shows are now scheduled for 12-14 September 2021. It follows the news last...

12 Nov 2020

Fairs

Moda February edition cancelled, focus now on digital platform

Hyve Group has announced that the planned February 2021 physical edition of British trade fair Moda has been cancelled and instead will be replaced with a digital edition due to the ongoing global impact of Covid-19. The event was originally set to take place in September 2020 but earlier this year organisers announced it would be pushed back to...

5 Nov 2020

Fairs

Fashion's past and present collide in the Met's newest exhibition

Whether by repetition, rupture or reinvention, fashion has always maintained a complex relationship to time, a link New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is exploring in a new exhibition opening Thursday. The show, delayed for months by the pandemic, was also tweaked last minute to take into account the Black Lives Matter movement that...

28 Oct 2020

Fairs

Pitti Uomo confirms physical January show dates

Organisers of leading Italian menswear trade show Pitti Uomo have confirmed the physical event will return to the Fortezza da Basso in Florence from 12 to 14 January 2021. It comes after organisers were forced to cancel the physical event this summer due to Covid-19, instead launching a digital iteration through its Pitti Connect platform. But...

7 Oct 2020