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Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics and Yarn Expo

PRESS RELEASE / Event

19 September 2024

6 minutes

Nearly 4,000 exhibitors from 26 countries and regions showcased the products and solutions set to define fashion’s coming seasons, with a renewed focus on functionality, sustainability, and digitalisation.

Intertextile Apparel Concludes: 30th Anniversary Edition’s Scale, Variety and Internationality Highlights Global Importance

Shanghai, China: The fair, which wrapped three days of business on 29 August, has reiterated its position as one of the world’s most important sourcing platforms for apparel textiles and accessories, and an important avenue to overcome the industry’s structural changes and recent challenges.

Nearly 4,000 exhibitors from 26 countries and regions...

Straight Talk / Wilmet Shea

27 September 2022

6 minutes

Buyers essentially require trade fairs that address the latest consumer preferences as well as the seasonal trends in fashion.

What the Physical Fair Offers Cannot Be Replaced by Digital Tools

The Autumn edition of Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics and Yarn Expo, one of the biggest trade events in this part of the globe, has now been merged with the spring edition next year because of the pandemic situation in China. Wilmet Shea, Deputy General Manager of fair organiser Messe Frankfurt HK, talks threadbare about how trade event organisers are operating in these trying times and, of course, Intertextile Shanghai.