Since 2007, Paris Playtime has been bringing together the best collections of international designers and avant-garde brands twice a year, showcasing each brand in a similar way to a pop-up shop, and exploring the cutting-edge fashion trends and lifestyles for children. The 2024 Spring/Summer Playtime Paris exhibition will take place from July 1st to July 3rd at Paris Floral Park, featuring over 300 brands including fashion children's clothing, lifestyle, and parent-child brands. In addition to unique spaces like New Now and Singular, there will also be creative spaces in collaboration with artists, highlighting 12 outstanding illustrators, graphic designers, and design studios specialized in creating patterns for the children's market.

As a very large and influential fashion expo in Asia, CHIC has always been a quality comprehensive resource platform which has integrated various functions such as trade negotiation, channel development, resource integration, international cooperation, market inspection, trend release, cross-industry cooperation, capital connection, etc. Since its establishment in 1993, CHIC has been constantly innovating based on the changes in the fashion industry and the market, growing together with Chinese fashion brands, and has been recognized as the promoter and witness of the development of Chinese fashion brands and the market.

Strong, stronger, China! The message of ISPO Beijing is clear: trade fairs are back - and the sports industry is booming worldwide! 368 leading brands and 223 exhibitors attracted 37,623 trade visitors and sports enthusiasts to Beijing. The fair, which took place from February 10 to 12 in China, is celebrating its greatest success: an incredible 50% increase in visitors compared to last year! The manufacturers, distributors and brands at ISPO Beijing are divided into the following segments: Snowsport, Outdoor, Health & Fitness, Manufacturing & Suppliers.

On February 7, 8 and 9, the international creative fashion industry came together at Première Vision Paris at the Parc des Expositions, Paris Nord Villepinte to find inspiration, exchange ideas and build their collections of ready-to-wear, accessories (fashion jewelry, leather goods) and footwear for the Spring-Summer 24 season.

Founded in 1972, the world-leading fashion event Pitti Uomo is not only a menswear show, but it is also a more all-around clothing exhibition and trade show. Other fashion weeks may pay more attention to the runway, however, Pitti Uomo focuses on the exhibition and trading of new-emerged brands. Meanwhile, Pitti Uomo can also be regarded as the best interpretation of global fashion trend for menswear. From June 30 to July 2, Pitti Uomo successfully held its 100th exhibition in Florence. Except for those famous menswear brands and latest products all over world, there were multiple special events as well. According to the official data, over 6000 people attended the exhibition, including 4000 buyers(30% of them came from foreign countries). The exhibition was mainly based on three topics: "Fantastic Classic"(contemporary classic menswear), "Dynamic Attitude"(outdoor wear, sportwear and streetwear), and "Superstyling"(niche avant-garde design). Thus, the exhibition has attracted people from all the industries and with different fashion preferences.

This year fewer overseas brands attend this trade show, due to COVID-19. Thus we focus more on Chinese original brands and Chinese designers. In recent two years, apparel retail holds a smaller and smaller part of global retail. Many small brands become more flexible faced with this pandemic, and they gradually recover from this heavy blow via online activities, live streaming, short videos and other emerging activities.

The Premiere Vision Paris is still the top large-scale textile fabrics exhibition in the world. The A/W 20/21 Designs exhibition is open in September. The pattern area in the Premiere Vision Designs breaks the limits of seasons, changes the previous color tones of the bright summer color palette, releases the gloomy and dark sense of autumn, and stresses the relations between imagination and the nature. The shadows and flowers from mixing plants wake up the soft female style. The natural texture, marbling and dots explore the sustainable and innovative application. The creative designs like the new wax print, folk pattern and oil paints can be the innovation advantages to overcome the industry adversity in the future.

Pitti Uomo's Guest Nation Project includes China this year. The summery theme is Pitti Special Click, and Sergio Colantuoni was in charge of the design of this show and explored the new direction. Polygonal patterns and bright colors are combined to be striking and youthful, echoing what Pitti Uomo is supporting.

Premiere Vision Paris just opened recently in Paris. This exhibition showed us intelligent fabrics, innovation and sustainable products and eco-friendly crafts. Natural fibre and synthetic fibre will the main trend. Fashionable and functional fabrics are critical, and lace and chiffon make garments sumptuous and sexy. Calendered shirt and suit feature metallic lustre.

Pitti Uomo's latest edition was a clever lesson in presenting familiar offerings in a new way. While the evolution of key items remains slow, there is innovation in the way these familiar concepts are offered for S/S 19. For example, trends that are perennial menswear favorites, such as 'nautical', are reworked to feel relevant again, with clean styling and graphic color lending a modern edge.

On the S/S 19 edition of Première Vision Paris, summer stripes emerge even more strongly, rebalancing the previous dominance of checks and refreshing the summer shirting. Stripes (including fresh resort and nautical stripes) update in larger scales, color blocking varies strongly, yarn-dyed checks gain traction through color combinations, and pastel laundered and natural textured checks feel familiar.

The 93th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo was held in Florence, Italy from 9-12 January. The trade show was transformed into a film festival to echo the 'movie' theme, bringing directional fashion and lifestyle programs in fun and fresh ways. This time, fashion experts from all over the world focused on the hottest athleisure style and contemporary designer brands. Well-known or emerging brands showed their products. And most importantly, Pitti Uomo brought fashion brands combining classic menswear with modern sports style to the world.

S/S 2018 CIFF trends and key shapes continue to evolve slowly. Risk is the enemy and familiar styles are the core around which strong ranges are built. Color is a primary way to add newness, with new fabric choices also spicing up firm favorites for S/S 18. A noticeable and interesting trend that we are seeing more of across trade shows (which originated on the catwalks) is a return to prominence for tailoring. While brands known for their suiting are rubbing their hands, others are trying their hand at smart stories. The scene is set for a move away from the directly sporty streetwear styles of recent seasons toward a more smartened-up feel, giving the customer new reasons to buy colorful jersey pieces, practical jackets and modern tailoring.

There were plenty of kids fashion highlights at Pitti Bimbo 85, the trade fair held in Florence every season which seems to just keep on growing. This season there were 548 exhibitors, and the number of buyers from countries such as Russia (207), China (181), Ukraine, Netherlands and Austria increased whilst total visitors stayed at around 10,000.