Fabric Trends
Fabrics: from maximum padded cosiness to ultra-light fluidity
Fabrics: from maximum padded cosiness to ultra-light fluidityBRICS:
Materials amaze through new extremes – from maximum padded cosiness to ultra-light fluidity. Patterns blow up too an ultimate size and checks and camouflage are oversized. Wool and fake furs offer an enhanced tactile sensation.
6DIAS
The new 6DIAS collection FW23-24 is divided in 3 themes: TWILIGHT GARDEN, CALM NATURE AND THE NEO ROOTS. Cool greens, swampy darks, energising brights and digital pastels will be key colour messages this season, with trendy prints, cosy velvets and teddy fleece and quilted outdoor fabrics. Highlights are winter heavy twills in Tencel and Viscose, Crêpe, Mouslins and Satins, as well as sustainable fabrics from Organic and BCI cottons, recycled Polyesters, Ecovero and Lenzing fabrics.
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AKBAŞLAR TEKSTİL
The qualities of Akbaslar come with a modern and innovative identity for the new AW23/24 collection. Their sustainable qualities make a difference in terms of texture and touch. The new collection is created from a natural perspective which emphasizes the simplicity and unprocessed nature in nature.
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A.P.C. ALMODO
A.P.C. Almodo Print Collection ‘s Autumn / Winter 23-24 collection is calling attention with their impressive lively colours and print quality thanks to high technology production. A.P.C. offers a varied collection of prints with handcrafted and organic looks, sea skins, new wave and geo prints, tie dye, watercolour designs that meets huge range of fabrics on a high level of quality.
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C. PAULI
The Autumn/Winter 23/24 fabric collection by C.Pauli is GOTS certified and focuses entirely on wonderful and sustainable organic qualities such as sweat, nicky, plush, interlock, poplin, gabardine, corduroy, tulle and denim. An enchanting selection inspired by “Quality by Nature”. The in-house ribbon weaving mill Kafka also produces jacquard ribbons in trendy looks on historic looms – Made in Wuppertal. Designs and labels can be made entirely individually here.
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DRESDNER SPITZEN
As a traditional family business with a spirit of innovation, Dresdner Spitzen develops sophisticated and sustainable lace galoons, lace fabrics and functional warp knit fabrics. The latest collection features versatile designs, including geometric arrangements in bold colours, expressive florals with intricate ornamentation as well as playful romantic motifs, in laces made of conventional but also recycled and other innovative materials.
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Trend Forecast Spring.Summer22
Discover our Spring.Summer 2022 Digital Trend Space BY MUNICH FABRIC START & BLUEZONE
Since FABRIC DAYS from 2 – 4 March 2021 is unfortunately no longer possible due to the ongoing situation in Germany and Europe, our team is focused on sharing the latest material developments and designs via our online channels in the coming weeks. We are excited to present our newly developed DIGITAL TREND SPACE, which we hope will become a useful and inspiring tool for the Spring.Summer 22 season.
The Spring.Summer 22 season will be emotionally influenced due to the extraordinary situation this year. Our guiding theme WE ARE ALL IN stands for cohesion, the longing for personal exchange and the return to what we are used to doing – the “new normal”.
Discover the material, mood and colour worlds for the coming season in a free and highly interactive resource for our all our guests, as a new and inspiring digital exhibition – featuring a selection of the latest material developments, accessories and prints from international suppliers:
Our Digital Trend Space consists of 6 rooms in which you can move around freely.
FOLLOW OUR TOP TIPS BEFORE YOU START
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- Open the presentation on your computer or laptop. Your smartphone is less suitable.
- Use CHROME or FIREFOX browser, Safari does not fully the support this presentation format.
- Play the videos in the Trend Space one at a time. Only click on the next video once the first video has finished to avoid double audio.
To get you started, we recommend our guided video + audio tour of the DIGITAL TREND SPACE as an initial inspiration tour. Afterwards or at any time you can start your individual tour through the DIGITAL TREND SPACE. You will find the latest fabric, material and accessory highlights for each trend theme there.
EXCLUSIVE INSIGHTS FROM INTERNATIONAL TREND VISIONARIES FOR SPRING.SUMMER 2022
From left: Alejandro Espinosa Caballero, David Shah, Quito Quinn and Lidewij Edelkoort.
From left: Tilmann Wrobel, Alessandro Squarzi and Matthew Oliver Wilson.
Get inspired for Spring.Summer 22
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Ecosim – BLUEZONE Presents Denim Beyond the Seasons
ECOISM
Reject egoism, create ecoism, rewrite your future.
Our world needs to spare a thought… consumption, mass production, benefits and our ecosystems. ECOISM thrives on our need for a better world, for true sustainable solutions and the rethinking/overhaul of our industrial blue planet.
In a denim world moving at social media speed, denim trends are key to benefit end consumers and the industry with a clear direction. The BLUEZONE trend direction is split into two main categories to reflect our present and our future: themes which directly address fabric and product development, such as NO STRETCH or BLUE WELLNESS. And themes which tackle the important trending styles in our world, such as POWER DRESSING and ANTI BEAUTY.
SHARING becomes more than a simple theme, it is the space where business becomes altruistic, where growth rhymes with sharing profit: A different way of conceiving denim in our modern world. “Sustainability is not a trend, but every trend should be sustainable.”
The following trend directions develop under the main topic ECOISM:
SHARING
Altruistic manufacturing, altruistic products, brand initiatives. Think: Products made in collaboration with people in need, small associations, handicapped. Products in which the benefits go to those in need.
NO STRETCH
Novelties without stretch…male & female, gender neutral. Think: Wider fits are their way to becoming mainstream and need a new generation of more rigid, more compact fabrics. Trend looks are more relevant with crisp somewhat rigid denim. Surfaces might be soft but compact weaving is key.
CLASHING CONTRASTS
A revolution in taste is key. Printed denim, coloured denim, and striped denim. Think: Jacquards, fancy weaves in unusual patchworks, layers, colour blockings. Strange visual matches, creating the antidote to harmony.
POWER DRESSING
Power dressing for a tough future. When politics go wrong, power dressing strikes back. Think: Business denim with a stylish twist. Power dressing also for men.
BLUE WELLNESS
The need for a soothing denim product. Denim that takes care of your skin, brain & body. Think: Fibers, coatings, ingredients, softness, anything that makes you and your body feel better.
SARTORIAL PUNK
No future. Sartorial denim against Friday wear. A punk attitude with elegant codes. Think: Bleached and spotted denim. Black, grey, white denim, stretch and rigid fabrications.
ACID PASTELS
The key is subtly in the effects. Acid fade-outs. Gritty yet pastel tenderness. Flowers, flowers, flowers … &animals, prints and solids. Think Acid effects on denim are key and tend to stay for some time. What is the next generation of acid and pastel effects on denim …
ANTI BEAUTY
Strange is the new beauty. Strange denim, strange products. New aesthetics, new proportions, sartorial, oversized, asymmetrical. Think: Flat-finished denim, reactive dye denim, Indigo denim.
Spring.Summer 21 Fabric News at VIEW
As in the recent past, the range of collections offered by printers, knitters, weavers and denim specialists is already clearly defined in many areas. In exchange with designers and product managers and taking into account current trends, the range will be extended and adapted accordingly until MUNICH FABRIC START, 4th – 6th February 2020.
It is already apparent that the range of colours is moving in the direction of brown, cognac and terracotta; that black and white combinations are becoming important; that red with a slight orange hue is gaining significance and blue in various shades is increasingly in demand.
‘Right at the beginning of the first day, we served numerous visitors from Germany and Austria. At the moment, we are already presenting up to 80 percent of the new collection. In the weeks after Christmas we will add an additional Capsule collection. There is great interest in sustainable articles. We will be developing further qualities for this in time for the main trade fair.‘
Ted Styliandis of Liberty London.
Florals and newly interpreted batiks continue to dominate the prints as striking all-overs. Digitally applied kaleidoscopic interpretations are just as convincing as large format graphics and panneaux prints. Structured effects and crepe yarns are important, even in plain colours. Linen is widely accepted in various interpretations. From irregular plain colours to woven stripes, checks and jacquards. The trend towards cotton and cotton blends in combination with Tencel is strong once again. In contrast to this are articles with a technical finish – now even extending into the classically oriented women’s and menswear.
The demand for comfortable textiles with some part stretch is also increasing among high-fashion producers or even couture suppliers.
‘This edition of VIEW was a very successful premiere for us. We will be back again in summer for the next VIEW event. The response to our wide range of print collections was pleasingly positive. In discussions with numerous customers, we received a lot of input about the future development of our collection in time for MUNICH FABRIC START.‘
Yesim Sezer, Ipeker
Many of the collections presented at VIEW will now be further revised in the coming weeks and presented at the MUNICH FABRIC START February 4th-6th 2020, at which a total of around 1,000 suppliers will present their Spring.Summer collections.
VIEW Premium Selection Autumn.Winter 20/21 Highlights
You’re invited to attend the next edition of VIEW Premium Selection in Munich from 03-04 December 2019, where we kick off the new Spring.Summer 2021 season. International suppliers will showcase more than 400 collections in the Fabrics, Additionals, Denim and Design segments hosted in the MVG Museum. Here we look back over a successful two show days from the previous showcase for Autumn.Winter 20/21.
Check out the list of exhibitors in advance.
There is still plenty time to register for the Spring.Summer 2021 edition of VIEW on December 03-04 in Munich!