How To Source Fabrics: Textile Trade Show Calendar

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This ethical textile matrix contains our personal team research spanning over a decade. We are sharing the contacts here because of our commitment to helping designers and makers across all industries source all the ethical textiles, materials and fabrics they require.

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Just over a week ago we visited Première Vision, the global leading fabric trade fair. It is immense in there. The whole show is dedicated fully to fashion fabric, including leather, yarns and tech. There’s also specific halls for manufacturing and accessories, so you can connect with producers of components and trims, as well as the fabric for your full production chain.

If you’re a designer, then you should visit Première Vision (PV) at least once, as it helps to understand the grand scale of all the people involved in the production of your creations. Trade fairs run year long, but are generally concentrated in Autumn and Spring, giving designers, brands, buyers and manufacturers a set timescale to work from.

This week, we visited the Pure Origin/Pure London trade show at London's Olympia (February 9-11th 2020) to tune in to emerging eco designers, brands and material innovations. Here's what we found.

With a background in visual merchandising and having worked for one of Britain’s most famous multi-channel department stores, Jade Maria Burrowes is an expert on the fundamentals of visual merchandising. She also has first-hand experience of organising fashion shows - we couldn't be in better hands for this Masterclass in visual merchandising trade events and fashion shows.

In this Masterclass, we round up all of the information surrounding trade and fashion shows for sustainable designers.