Milanese show Micam recorded a 5% visitor downturn compared to last year, due to an expected shortfall in Asian buyers. Mipel instead recorded an 11% rise in visitors over the February 2019 edition.

​Moda has secured a number of retail experts to provide insights as part of a three-day content programme complementing the upcoming AW20/21 event.

Première Vision Paris and the Fairyland for Fashion shows (with Texworld and Apparel Sourcing) ended up hosting just under half of the Chinese exhibitors expected, and all reported big declines in visitor attendance.

Held on 6-8 February, the Madrid trade show welcomed more than 15,000 visitors to its winter edition. Organisers expect next season will get a boost from MBFW Madrid.

Dedicated to fashion students, the event will focus on the social, environmental and economic challenges facing the denim industry.

Children and maternity wear specialist Orchestra-Prémaman entered a protection procedure on September 24 2019, and on Monday February 17 it presented a reorganisation plan which involves cutting about 600 jobs.

The textile and apparel trade show is taking over Porto Airport from February 19 to 20 in order to present upcoming industry trends. Its organisers expect to welcome 6,400 buyers, 400 of whom will be international.

The British Fashion Council has continued to support a scaled-back-but-more-focused exhibition as part of London Fashion Week, with the latest edition of the Positive Fashion Exhibition.

Well-known boxing brand Everlast appeared at the last ISPO sports trade fair in Munich, marking a change in direction under its new European licenser, the French Royer group.

Pure London offers a massive selection of labels from the mass-market to the premium and much in-between. Each season, we pick out our favourites from new (or nearly new) to the show brands.

On Tuesday, Italian jeweller Bulgari announced it was pulling out of this year’s Baselworld watch industry show, another setback for the Basel event’s organisers.

The show's organisers blamed the coronavirus outbreak in China and a date clash with Milano Unica for a decline in visitor numbers at its latest edition, held on 4-6 February, as footfall numbers fell 7%.

The Hong Kong show, scheduled for May 13 and 14, will no longer take place in response to health concerns and significant travel restrictions put in place due to the coronavirus in China. 

Organisers may have been cancelling trade shows in China in recent weeks, but some organisers are looking to the future and on Tuesday, Première Vision announced the launch of a new event in China this November.

The French organiser of lingerie and swimwear trade events is busy on a new Parisian project for next June, and meanwhile has relocated the Curve Las Vegas show to Los Angeles and Interfilière Hong Kong to Shenzhen.