It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Olaf Schmidt

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

22 January 2025

3 minutes

High satisfaction ratings confirmed the success of this year’s Heimtextil edition: 81 per cent of exhibitors reported achieving their trade fair goals. At 94 per cent, visitor satisfaction reached also a record high.

Heimtextil 2025 Records Visitor Increase and Showcases Future Interior Design

Frankfurt, Germany: Heimtextil 2025 ended with full exhibition halls, 142 participating nations, another increase in exhibitors and visitors as well as with top satisfaction ratings. Over four days, more than 50,000 buyers experienced the latest collections, materials and textile solutions for the entire interior design at first hand from over 3...

Curtain-Raiser / Heimtextil 2025

3 December 2024

9 minutes

Heimtextil spotlights sustainable solutions and enables the industry tailor their products to consumer demands.

At Heimtextil, Regenerative Design Takes Inspiration from Ecological Principles

Heimtextil is the industry's most important global event for interior textiles, interior design and interior trends, and it cannot get bigger than that. On 14 January next, the entire industry will converge in Munich for the four-day Heimtextil 2025. We speak to Olaf Schmidt, Vice-President Textiles & Textile Technologies at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition, organisers of the mega event.

Subir Ghosh

Interview

Exclusive

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

12 September 2024

2 minutes

Textile Lab Lead Cecilia Raspanti working on plant and bacteria pigments.

Heimtextil Trends 25/26 To Be Curated by Alcova Milano in Inaugural Partnership

FRANKFURT, German: For the first time, Heimtextil, the foremost global trade fair for home and contract textiles, and Alcova Milano, the platform known for blending design with art, architecture, and other disciplines, will collaborate on curating Heimtextil Trends 25/26. The partnership, bringing together the unusual, original and innovative, will...

Event Roundup / Heimtextil 2023

25 January 2023

7 minutes

Heimtextil 2023 ended with concentrated intercontinental strength and set the course for a successful trade fair year. A total of 44,000 buyers took advantage of the opportunity to participate in the global market for home and contract textiles and to gain a bundled overview of global textile innovations - from fibres, yarns, upholstery and decorative fabrics, functional textiles, outdoor fabrics, artificial leather and wallpapers to bed and bathroom textiles, mattresses, sleep systems, curtains and decorat

Scalable and Sustainable Innovations are Not a Contradiction in Terms

As a leading international trade fair with participants from 129 nations, Heimtextil 2023 was a global stage where textile sustainability was holistically mapped — with products and innovations that have shown that scalable and sustainable innovations are not a contradiction in terms. Olaf Schmidt, Vice-President (Textiles & Textile Technologies) at Messe Frankfurt talks to texfash.com