• SELF-EMPOWERMENT

    TREND LECTURES | Keyhouse - Hall 5

    Conflict, inflation, recession, energy crisis, massive inequality, climate change… Who’s dealing with all this? Certainly not the politicians, bankers, economists, and institutions that are meant to run our world! Hardly surprising, then, that no one trusts or believes them anymore! Better to empower ourselves, to take charge of our own destinies and well-being in terms […]

  • Future Materials: The Race for New Textiles

    TREND LECTURES | Keyhouse - Hall 5

    Textiles are getting a sustainability makeover thanks to recycled textiles, regeneratively farmed cotton and mushroom-based leather, but are these materials worth the investment and long-term commitments required to scale.

  • Empowering sustainable textiles via circularity and bio-based materials

    TREND LECTURES | Keyhouse - Hall 5

    Centexbel will be presenting insights of 2 European projects: HEREWEAR (www.herewear.eu) and CISUTAC (www.cisutac.eu). HEREWEAR aims at the creation of a European ecosystem for locally produced textiles and clothing made from bio-based resources. CISUTAC wants to increase textile circularity in Europe by developing new technologies for sorting and recycling, and by influencing sectorial and customers […]

  • A Vibe shift is coming – Get ready for spring/summer 2024

    Room K1 in front of Hall 1 | MOC

    Often, fashion trends are merely new variations on already familiar themes over many seasons. But then at some point there is suddenly a fundamental break, a completely new attitude to life, a completely different basic mood, a "vibe shift". We are at such a turning point now. The 20s are taking shape and it is […]