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The international laundry and dry cleaning industry will be meeting in Frankfurt from May 31 to June 4, 2008, the world market for modern textile care. This important event gives investors and decision-makers from all over the world the opportunity to find out about the latest trends and innovations.

For more information, visit official website at: texcare.messefrankfurt.com

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Event Producer: Fashion Designers Associations of Turkey (FDAP)

Description:

Istanbul Fashion Lab Event is organized by Fashion Designers Association of Turkey in Istanbul on 12-15 March 2008. For this event, a special Buyers Mission Programme will be organized by The General Secretariat of Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters’ Association under the auspices of the Prime Ministry Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade. Fashion designers from selected countries are invited to join in the Mission. The program will include fashion shows, bilateral business meetings, press meetings and a special city tour.

With this event, producers intend to place Istanbul as a world fashion center and hope that every year the curiosity, the interest and the effect will increase hugely. The participant designers will be:

• Bahar Korcan
• Arzu Karpol
• Hakan Yildirim
• Hatice Gokce
• Idil Tarzi
• Ozlem Suer
• Umit Unal
• Ezra-Tuba Çetin

For more details, visit official website at: www.istanbulfashionlab.com

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RAFW will take place at the spectacular Overseas Passenger Terminal in Sydney from 28 April – 2 May 2008, and international representation is proving to be strong across all areas of the event including established designer brands that already have an international following, high profile buyers and media from around the world and models flying in specifically for the event. It is expected that this year will be a bumper year in terms of content and quality industry attendance.

For more information visit official website at: www.rafw.com.au

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Swimwear Parade

Location: Red Square
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Event Producer: Katrina Johns and Joel Castell

Description: CocoHazel swimwear parade featuring at the launch of Next Are You alongside J.Castell. Fabulous night of latino fashion, music and beautiful people!

How to register : Log on to our myspace and checkout the event!

For more details visit the website: www.myspace.com/nextareu

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Sunday, January 27th

7pm HUGO

offsite: Tempelhof Airport

Monday, January 28th

2pm Strenesse

5pm Karstadt New Generation Award

8:30pm JOOP! Menswear

offsite: Olympiastadion

Tuesday, January 29th

1pm Kunsthochschule Weissensee

3pm Marcel Ostertag

5pm Sinemus

7pm Macqua

9pm Michalsky

offsite: Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum

Wednesday, January 30th

1pm 30paarhaende

3pm Heiress

6pm Suzana Peric

8:30pm Sisi Wasabi

offsite: Unter den Linden 26-30

10pm Unrath & Strano

Thursday, January 31st

1pm Lac Et Mel

3pm Intuitive

6pm Susanne Wiebe

8pm Zac Posen

For details, visit the official website at:
www.mercedes-benzfashionweekberlin.com

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TURKEYS’ LARGEST FAIRS FOR FOOTWEAR SECTOR

Description: AYMOD will be hosting nearly 400 companies participating both from Turkey and Foreign countries.

Event Producer: Miscellaneous Shows

Location: İstanbul Fair Centre
Yesilkoy – İstanbul

For more details visit the official website at: www.rdf.com.tr

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Professional Lingerie and Swimwear Tradeshow

Helexpo Exhibition Centre
39 Kifissias Ave
Maroussi-Athens
Greece

Event Produced by:
Linea Hellenica Ltd.

Linea EVA is the only trade show in Greece that gives a complete picture of what is happening in the lingerie marketplace, in just three days. It is being characterized as the primary marketing tool by the sector's professionals, since it provides a pre-view of all the future trends for the next season. It is the hub of all business activity for this industry.

Store owners can meet with all the industry's big companies in one visit, since the majority is there and thus the exhibition is deemed as the “must see” event by everyone in the lingerie sector.

For more information, visit the official website:  www.lineaeva.gr

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International Fashion Show and Trade Show

Romexpo
65-67 Marasti Blvd.
71331 Bucharest
Romania

Event Produced by:
Romexpo

International exhibition of Textiles, ready-made clothes, leather goods, furs, footwear and leatherware.

For more details visit the official site http://www.modexpo.ro/

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The Premier Shoe Event Dusseldorf

Dusseldorf Fairgrounds
Stockumer Kirchstra e 61
Dusseldorf, Germany

Exhibitors from 80 different nations converge to display the latest styles and trends in shoe design.

For more details, visit the official site www.gds-online.com

Women's & Children's Wear

Location: Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon Road

Event Producer: Ontario Fashion Exhibitors Market

Description: This event offers retailers to have the opportunity for a one-stop marketplace devoted to the latest trends and wholesale apparel and accessories in the women's wear industry.

For more details visit the official website at: www.ofeshows.ca

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Autumn/Winter Collections

Location: 101 Halsey Street
Viaduct Harbour Marine Village
Auckland New Zealand

Descripion: This event will feature New Zealand’s leading fashion designers to show their Autumn/Winter collections to international and local buyers and media.

For more details visit the official website at: www.nzfashionweek.com

Location: Hilton Hotel Columbus

Event Producer: CN MODELOS

Celebrity Guest: Natalia Paris

Description: EFW is recognized at a national and international level for their successful results and for being a venue that promotes talent, between designers, models, brands, companies and services.

For more details visit the official website at: www.ecuadorfashion.org

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Pakistan Launches Its Own Fashion Week

Location: Royal Palm Golf & Country Club
Lahore, Pakistan

Event Producer: IMG

Description: For the first time, the city of Lahore will be joining some of the world's leading style capitals like New York, Milan, Paris, London, and Tokyo as a host city of an international fashion week.
A group of designers will be hand picked to participate as part of an international showcase of Pakistan designers at Lakme Fashion Week, which are in association with Pakistan Fashion Week. This showcase will highlight the strength of the Pakistan fashion industry to international buyers and media.

For more details visit the website: www.imgworld.com

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Muoti+Kauneus 2007

Event Producer: Finnish Fair Corporation

Description: In the WorldSkills Competition, young people under 23 years old from all over the world compete in the skills of their vocational fields. There are 39 official competition skills that represent the fields of technology, industry, and services.

Location:  Helsinki Fair Centre
Helsinki, Finland

For more details visit the official website at: www.finnexpo.fi

The 19^th Fashion Fair

The most anticipated trade show in Denmark has shown this country's fashion identity to the outside world joining creativity, quality, beauty and personality.

For more details visit the official website at: www.cphvision.dk