Fabrics Highlights for Spring.Summer 2024 - Part IV
In the FABRICS Area, around 600 international suppliers present their material innovations for all apparel segments. The complete product portfolio of fashionable woven and knitted fabrics made of wool, cotton, silk, blends and functional fibers is represented here. For the Spring.Summer 24 season, we present some highlights from international producers in our FABRICS blogposts:
MANIFUTURA
Manifutura of Ege Organics Group, by its commitment to sustainability, has taken action in Regenerative organic cotton and Hemp farms projects to give the buzzwords of fashion brands “SUSTAINABLE, TRANSPARENT & FAIR” meaning. Check out our Turkish organic cotton-hemp blends for Spring and Summer 2024 season and simply get the chance to actively create a transparent supply chain.
MERT IPEK
Since the very beginning, Mert Ipek uses only natural fibres, mainly: silk, linen/hemp and wool. Not only in terms of materials, but the way it’s produced is important to have a sustainable production line. And with this taken in its full implications comes around to one of the major issues of our time, global warming or climate change. The promotion of the use of natural fibres as CO2 neutral resource contributes to a greener planet.
MUEHLMEIER
MUEHLMEIER offers a toolbox of eco-optimized and circular M-BraCups which is now fully certified to GRS Standard. Recent additions are NOS BraCups – readily available – with 100% recycled GRS certified PES cover fabric or 100% recycled SPACER cups. Under the motto „Next Generation SPACER“, MUEHLMEIER has develop a new versatile collection of M-SPACER BraCups withbreathtakingnew material and design compositions. To serve the trend-setting potential „Statement Shoulders“, the specialist offers accentuated M-ShoulderPads for every style and in eco-optimized versions.
PICCHI
The new summer collection of Picchi was born with the spirit of the old craftmanship that made Prato and Picchi, in particular, great. Their finishing plant is equipped with mechanical machinery to achieve the luxury of Picchi’s craftmanship and handmade works for the best quality and designs that are available as a mix of fibers from linen, viscose and cotton. Discover the new collection at the KLAAS + HESSE booth,
PRINTSTORMING
Excavators and construction vehicles are very much in demand again, the combination of warm and cool shades, sand, beige, green and blue makes the Work Zone theme refreshing and new.
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Maison du Flock – SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS
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KnitForm+ by Jeanne Mora – SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS
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Cartoon – WEAR YOUR OPTIMISM
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RETRAKT – SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS
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