On October 12th, the Shanghai 2024 Spring/Summer Order Fair gradually came to an end. Ontimeshow coincides with the tenth anniversary, with the theme of "unparalleled national strength" to interpret the power of Chinese aesthetic design, empowering trends, talents, and products from three dimensions. Shitang's new brands accounted for nearly 35% of the exhibition, with mature overseas brands such as CURIEL and LOIS joining in. MODE collaborates with 17 professional showrooms, bringing together over 300 brands, and collaborates with Youngor to hold a sustainable art exhibition to explore the future development of sustainable fashion. At the moment when designer brands are becoming increasingly mature, various ordering events have showcased a diverse group of domestic and foreign designer brands. We can see that the market may not be very friendly to young entrepreneurial designers, and the polarization of the market is becoming increasingly severe. Buyers' budgets are more concentrated in the head or some stable performance mid waist brands they are collaborating with. How to enhance commercial competitiveness will be a problem that designers need to face directly. In the current sluggish environment, the comfortable and natural minimalist style and the new Chinese style are outstanding, and relevant new brands have also shown us their unique design expressions, which are worth paying close attention to.

From September 20th to 22nd, FASHION SOURCE 2024/25AW Knitwear Trends will present the complete release and showcase on-site at the 27th Shenzhen International Fashion Supply Chain Expo with the macro theme "Loop Chronicle." It will cover five sub-trend themes: "Whispers of Tomorrow, Urban Nomad, Circular Stitches, Cozy Hearth, and Vibrant Brilliance." The aim is to inspire creativity, promote progress in knitwear design, and encourage reflection on the relationship between knitwear and fashion, art, and sustainability.

On August 30th, the three-day CHIC2023 (Autumn/Winter) came to a perfect end. With the theme of "Infinite Opportunities, More than Just Orders", it gathered a large number of professional domestic audience resources and high-quality buyers from 19 countries and regions around the world, including online buyers, professional buyers, brands, wholesalers, retailers, and cross-border e-commerce. It has sparked more possibilities for business! This CHIC event was divided into 9 exhibition areas, covering 2.1 Halls for ultimate single products, extraordinary denim, fashion customization, high-quality products, resource platforms, and digital collaboration, 3 Halls for emerging design forces, accessories and bags, and the newly established North Hall with 3 major exhibition halls for CHIC SELECTED. Commerce was the main theme of CHIC2023 (Autumn), and CHIC MATCHING held nearly 20 targeted professional business negotiation meetings. CHIC SHOW, CHIC TALK, and a series of fashion shows, business forums, award ceremonies, and other activities fully demonstrate the industry value, business value, and cultural value of CHIC in the Chinese clothing industry.

Ciff Kids is held twice a year and is based in Copenhagen, hence rooted in the heart of the Scandinavian creative industry. It is the only children's trade fair in the Nordic region. Ciff Kids showcases countless brands from Northern Europe, excelling not only in children's fashion but also offering a wide range of other baby and children's products. CIFF Kids is dedicated to bringing together talent, brands, media, and buyers in a relaxed, fun, and commercially vibrant atmosphere, providing an ideal platform for showcasing products and building relationships for children and teenage brands.

Ciff Kids holds two editions every year, with its headquarters based in Copenhagen, making it the center of the Scandinavian creative industry. It is the only trade fair for children in the Nordic region. Ciff Kids showcases numerous brands from the Nordic countries, excelling not only in children's fashion but also offering a wide range of other infant and children's product collections. Ciff Kids is dedicated to bringing together talent, brands, media, and buyers in a relaxed, fun, and vibrant atmosphere, creating an ideal platform for showcasing products and building relationships for children and youth brands.

From June 21st to 23rd this year, the 97th edition of Pitti Bimbo, the children's fashion exhibition, was held at Fortezza da Basso in Florence. The offline exhibition brought together 230 brands and attracted approximately 2,000 buyers, with 75% of the brands coming from cross-border locations. Despite the challenges faced by the industry, the number of exhibitors and sales points remained at the same level as the summer of 2022. The theme of this edition of Pitti Bimbo was "Pitti Games," representing a summer and carefree atmosphere. Children played alone, in pairs, or in groups, forming teams to face challenges. This edition of Pitti Bimbo showcased a decisive driving force for creativity and an increasing focus on values such as quality, sustainability, health, and authenticity.

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.

In view of the easing of pandemic restriction policies in China, the Spring Editions of Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, Yarn Expo and Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles have been moved to the new timeslot of 28 – 30 March 2023. A series of seminars, forums and panel discussions were held concurrently to further promote industry development.

The 96th edition of Pitti Immagine Bimbo (from 18 to 20 January 2023, Florence, Fortezza da Basso) ended amidst an atmosphere of great satisfaction among the members of the trade and confidence in a year which could reserve positive surprises for the children’s clothing and accessories market, notwithstanding the fears expressed by many people in recent months. Around 2,100 buyers had registered at the end of the three days of the fair– over 1,500 Italian buyers and almost 600 from abroad, from nearly 70 countries.

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.

Showroom Shanghai 2022 WINTER+ COLLECTION was hosted at No.2 Plant of Wulin Constellation Expo. Center in Hangzhou from July 15th to 18th. PLANT 2 boasts an exhibition area of 10,000 square meters, which basically equals to that of Showroom Shanghai 2021 WINTER+ COLLECTION. The number of participating fashion and accessories brands reaches more than 130, 50% more than the same period last year.

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The world is changing, and the second exhibition of Playtime Shanghai will present an image of the children's universe, that takes on today's social challenges in order to protect the freedom to be openly and courageously unique. It is the incarnation of a world of solidarity in its diversity, of a "wild" state of childhood where creativity and spontaneity, individualism and simple pleasures of the senses are combined. It is a joyful disorder, in which each one finds a place, the happy wasteland of a future whose complexity is not put in doubt, but where the collective, the freedom and the sensuality celebrate new utopias.

The Playtime E-show this year was held online during February 10 to February 12. Based on the sustainable environmental design concept, this Playtime show demonstrated every environmental fashion brands through the recommendations of magazine, blogger and fashionista. And diverse eco-friendly design styles were presented by streaming.

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 20th Children-Baby-Maternity Expo (CBEM) was unveiled on 10 October, 2020 in National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC) in China. In addition to child, baby and maternity products and services, this time CBEM also opens a Chinese Fashion Hall to promote Chinese culture via clothes. A series of sweet, retro or sustainable designs also gains much attention. Muted colors deliver a fresh feeling. Besides, various IP collaboration enriches styles.

The 2020 ISUE (International School Uniform Exposition) combines the cultural essence of British style school uniforms and sustainability, and injects novelty into school uniforms via different colors and cutting.

The 27th Playtime Paris opens in January 2020 and celebrates its 10th anniversary. This time the exhibition has a theme of "BE HAPPY!" Sweetness, vintage and a series of sustainable designs become the key points. Strong color-blocking is combined with saturated colors to present a new appearance, showing diversified styles such as novel, avant-garde and environmentally-friendly style.

The 90th Pitti Immagine Bimbo is held in Florence on January 16th to 18th, 2020. For 45 years, it has been the global fashion center for kidswear. During the three-day period, shows of KidzFizz and Apartment, kids' labs and forum all display and enrich Pitti Bimbo. The theme of "Speak for The Earth" runs through the fair. On the catwalk, streets turn into frescoes full of kids' demands for green, inclusiveness and a livable space. Kids hold up slogans such as "OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE", "THERE IS NO PLANET B", walk through the streets and begin to express themselves.

The 90th Pitti Immagine Bimbo is held in Florence on January 16th to 18th, 2020. As the world's most authoritative kidswear fair, Pitti Bimbo is the exclusive stage for international brands to show their kidswear for the new season, attracting many fashionistas to see the future of the industry. In recent months, we have seen a decline in trade and consumption, but the international market is bright and hopeful. Pitti Bimbo is a global leader in children's fashion and modern lifestyle. It wants to provide children with a stylish lifestyle, and deals with this complex economic stage with creativity and the highest quality. With the severe situation of climate change and the increasing awareness of environmental protection, consumers also pay more attention to environmental protection and choose more environmentally-friendly products. The Greta effect, appearing in 2019, has really prompted a shift in consumption concepts. In this exhibition, the concept of environmental protection has also been infinitely amplified, and speaking for the earth has become a hot topic.