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Textile designers and trend agencies from all over the world show their latest prints and patterns for Spring.Summer 24 in the DESIGN STUDIOS area at MUNICH FABRIC START.
MUNICH FABRIC START, KEYHOUSE, THE SOURCE and BLUEZONE move forward to the second half of July for Autumn.Winter 24/25. The first reVIEW will be held on 13 and 14 September 2023 on the Zenith grounds in Motorworld.
An overview of international FABRICS exhibitors for Spring.Summer 2024 – from Athenea to Bogazici Orme, Gistex and Global Textile.
Across more than 1,000 square metres you will find pioneering smart textiles, future fabrics and new technologies – whether in terms of sustainability, circular economy, digitalisation, traceability, technology or finishing.
Purchasing and production are usually responsible for sustainability. However, you can significantly influence costs, material consumption and profitability if you think beyond reusable fabrics – and the key to this is in the hands of apparel designers.
This extremely thin, elastic and tear-resistant membrane, also called gold beater’s skin, was used in the past as a separating layer when beating gold leaf.
What if you didn’t dispose of the leftovers of freshly squeezed juice – but could create a new material from it?
Designer Birke Weber and biochemist Friederike Hoberg are researching the potential of alternative dyes – specifically: from fungi.
A world where everything is becoming faster, more connected and more digital, endless possibilities are emerging. But why always strive for the new instead of continuing the traditional?
Nature as a 3D printer: material designer and underwater photographer Zena Holloway creates shapes and forms from wheat grass roots that grow in self-carved moulds made of beeswax.
Hair creates identity – we dye it, style it, create new looks and expressions, and associate ourselves with cultural or social groups. It loses meaning and becomes rubbish to be discarded.
Using digital fabrication, designer Mehdi Mashayekhi deconstructs wood in his project Choub and shapes it into armour-like, portable constructions.
