All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 29

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    The Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY) is expanding...

    2013-12-31T00:00:00Z

    The Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY) is expanding its education program with Ars Sutoria, adding a digital version that will allow it to register more students. The American association has also announced the creation of a digital wholesale marketplace for footwear. FFANY 365, whose launch is planned for ...

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    Fashion Access, Asia-Pacific's fashion fair for high-end head-to-toe fashions, had...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Fashion Access, Asia-Pacific's fashion fair for high-end head-to-toe fashions, had a modestly successful run on Sept. 25-27 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. In terms of visitors, there was a 4.77 percent decrease from Sept. 2012. There were 298 exhibitors, covering a total of 11,090 square meters of ...

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    The Altagamma Foundation will launch a branding project for the...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    The Altagamma Foundation will launch a branding project for the city of Milan as the ambassador of Italy's creative heritage. It will be carried out by Altagamma itself; the local Camera della Moda (Fashion Chamber); Cosmit, which organizes the Milan Design Week; and local governmental, higher education and research institutions. ...

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    The Bread & Butter show in Berlin has launched a...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    The Bread & Butter show in Berlin has launched a new communication campaign under the title “Ich bin ein Berliner,” the famous words of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy during a speech given in the city while it was still divided between East and West. B&B has also launched ...

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    Anpic, the Mexican leather and footwear exhibition in Léon, attracted...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Anpic, the Mexican leather and footwear exhibition in Léon, attracted more visitors than expected. There were a total of 14,503 buyers, and 93 percent came from the country. Out of the foreign visitors, more than 30 percent of them came from the U.S., 14 percent from Guatemala, 13 percent from ...

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    Anteprima Lineapelle and Lineapelle have indicated the intention to move...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Anteprima Lineapelle and Lineapelle have indicated the intention to move to earlier. The main show would take place in Bologna on Sept. 10-12 next year, coming just before the successful Cuir à Paris fair, scheduled for Sept. 16-18. However, it seems that the fairgrounds may not be available for the ...

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    The Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, brought for the first...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    The Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, brought for the first time a group of 19 Italian companies to Aymod, the Turkish shoe fair in Istanbul, on Nov. 6-9. The association also reports on the successful staging of its most recent workshops in the capitals of Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The event ...

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    Starting next year, Berlin will have a new trade show...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Starting next year, Berlin will have a new trade show exclusively for footwear, aimed at independent fashion retailers. The show, called “What about Shoes,” will take place at Berlin's Postbahnhof on Feb. 21-23 and is being organized by Ben Hering and Miro Neumann, with the support of an unnamed investor. ...

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    Clarification: As previously reported in Shoe Intelligence, Messe Düsseldorf presented...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Clarification: As previously reported in Shoe Intelligence, Messe Düsseldorf presented a new concept for the GDS fair, which will start to be implemented during the edition from July 30 to Aug. 1, 2014. The GDS will extend its reach not only to handbags, belts and caps, as previously reported, but ...

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    The next edition of TheMicam Shanghai will run from March...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    The next edition of TheMicam Shanghai will run from March 24 to 26, in line with the forward shift in the dates of TheMicam Milan and a little earlier than previously planned. It will take place after Obuv, the Russian show organized by Assocalzaturifici, which will be held in Moscow ...

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    Mipel, the leathergoods show in Milan, will be held from...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Mipel, the leathergoods show in Milan, will be held from Aug. 31 to Sept. 3 next year to coincide with the new dates of TheMicam. Its dates will move back two weeks earlier also in 2015, starting with a Feb. 15-18 for the first session of the year.

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    Euro Shoes Premiere Collections counted a total of 5,500 daily...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Euro Shoes Premiere Collections counted a total of 5,500 daily visits for the duration of the Moscow fair in August, including 1,500 on the first day. Only 15 percent of the visitors came from Moscow. While 7 percent came from other CIS countries, practically all the others came from other ...

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    Bright is again moving its location in Berlin, this time...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Bright is again moving its location in Berlin, this time to the building of the former Jandorf warehouse. The streetwear fair in Berlin will continue to coincide with Bread & Butter, Premium and other Berlin shows from Jan. 15 to 17.

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    The European Confederation of the Shoe Industry (CEC) has approved...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    The European Confederation of the Shoe Industry (CEC) has approved a proposal to hold the next World Footwear Congress in the Mexican city of Léon. It will be held there at a yet unspecified date during the month of November of 2015. Léon is located in the state of Guanajuato, ...

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    Empreintes, the ten-year-old convention on brand building in Bordeaux, will...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Empreintes, the ten-year-old convention on brand building in Bordeaux, will not be held as planned on Oct. 24-25 because of an insufficient number of registrations and other reasons

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    Kurt Geiger and the London College of Fashion (LCF) have...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Kurt Geiger and the London College of Fashion (LCF) have raised more than $500,000 at the inaugural Fashion Matters gala in support of Cordwainers, LCF's footwear-specialist school. The event took place at Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, on Sept. 6, and was hosted by ...

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    The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the Parisian leather...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the Parisian leather and fur trade show, held on Sept. 17-19, saw the number of visitors increase by 21.5 percent and that of exhibitors by 8 percent compared with the September 2012 edition. The stand surface area was increased by 23 percent. The ...

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    Momad Metropolis, the new fair held in Madrid last Sept....

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Momad Metropolis, the new fair held in Madrid last Sept. 6-8, welcomed a total of 17,423 buyers, 11 percent of whom came from abroad. Organized by Ifema, it put together for the first time the former Modacalzado + Iberpiel with Simm, an international fashion fair, accommodating a total of 1,300 ...

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    CIFF, the Danish fashion fair in Copenhagen, reports a drop...

    2013-09-11T00:00:00Z

    CIFF, the Danish fashion fair in Copenhagen, reports a drop of about 10 percent in the number of visitors at its show last month, down to 20,123 people. The organizers attribute the decline to tighter rules for registration and point out that the number of foreign visitors went up by ...

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    The GDS shoe fair opened today with a total of...

    2013-09-11T00:00:00Z

    The GDS shoe fair opened today with a total of 800 exhibitors. Another 330 exhibitors are partecipating in the Global Shoes fair, which started one day before the GDS in response to a request for more time for making purchasing decisions. New exhibitors at the GDS are Talbot Runhof, Liu Jo ...