With almost 900 exhibitors and 1500 collections on a total exhibition area of around 45,000 square metres, Munich Fabric Start now comprises eight areas - Fabrics and Additionals with international material innovations for all apparel segments, ReSOURCE and innovative novelties for Sustainable Innovations, Design Studios with fabric designs and new developments for prints on an enlarged area, the Keyhouse innovation hub, the Bluezone denim powerhouse and the new The Source sourcing area for international vertical integration.

Already fully booked for weeks, The Source is the new European One Stop Solution for holistic fashion sourcing. 65 selected international manufacturing companies present their offers from cut-make-trim (CMT) to high-end production. A cluster of the most important sourcing countries, such as Portugal, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Bosnia and Vietnam, creates a business relevant mix for risk diversification, independent of genre and price level.

Munich Fabric Start has developed the new Hall 8 with around 2500 square metres of additional space for this purpose. The Lokhalle, a listed building that has recently been restored and is directly adjacent to the former Munich Fabric Start site, is the perfect location for this and, with its gigantic dimensions and spectacular architecture, is one of the largest cantilevered historic steel halls in Europe. The result is a unique new venue for flexible sourcing services and rethought value chains.

“We are firmly convinced that a trade fair can only be successful if everyone pulls together, because only then does a trade fair acquire an identity, a soul. This spirit will be felt more than ever in Munich in a fortnight‘ time,“ says Frank Junker, Creative Director and Partner of Munich Fabric Start Exhibitions GmbH, looking forward to the upcoming event.

Full halls at the MOC

Halls 1 to 4 as well as the atriums and studios at the MOC are also fully booked. With a broad and deep range of products – from internationally important fabric and ingredient exhibitors to renowned agencies and top European weavers to selected textile designers – Munich Fabric Start underpins its claim to be one of the most important European textile fairs. ReSOURCE, the sourcing platform for sustainable material developments, offers bio-certified, bio-based, recycled, recyclable or regeneratively sourced fabrics and ingredients and continues to gain in importance.

A completely new area has been created for the Design Studios in the light-flooded Atrium 3 of the MOC. With around 40 studios, the number of exhibitors has doubled. In addition to well-known names such as buntastic, Eleonora Clerici, Fusion CPH, Le Studio Copenhagen, LETI., Musticstsyle or Zisser Textile Design, who have been presenting in Munich for many years, the Create collective will be represented in Munich for the first time this year, whose 27 creative studios will enrich the print segment of Munich Fabric Start.

Keyhouse: innovation hub for the fashion of tomorrow

Information and interaction is also the name of the game at Keyhouse. On more than 1,000 square metres the spotlight will be on trend-setting show cases alongside sustainable innovations – be it on sustainability, digitalisation, traceability, technology or finishing. The main lecture forum of MUNICH FABRIC START with exclusive keynotes is also located here, panel discussions, trend presentations, Q&A sessions & expert talks by international international industry insiders.

Bluezone: Denim powerhouse

The fully booked BLUEZONE in Hall 6 & 7 will be the place to be for the blue community on 30 and 31 August. As a global key event for the denim industry, around 100 international denim mills, weavers, manufacturers and finishing companies will be showing their latest innovations and trends in the Zenith Hall and the coal bunker.

Back to high school

Under the motto „Campus“, BLUEZONE will beam the denim industry into the high school on 30 August and 1 September: From the Yellow Bus, to the basketball court in the Blue Park and the library, to the Charity Store where BLUEZONE Caps, Socks, Bags and Bottles as well as FLOYD Travel Cases will be available for purchase. For a good time, but also for a good cause – 50% of the proceeds will go to the Fair for Ukraine charity project, an initiative of MUNICH FABRIC START.

Future value chain

At the upcoming BLUEZONE, two new projects that could not be more different will show how the process steps of denim production are optimally interlinked in a way that conserves resources: Denim finishing on a next level. Right at the entrance to BLUEZONE, an automated high-tech machine park awaits the visitors. Wiser Tech presents how cloud- and AI-based solutions can revolutionise denim finishing. The result: fully traceable and sustainably optimised finishing processes.

Made in Italy: From creation to fabric production, denim laundry to ingredients - the new project „The Italian Luster“, shown for the first time at BLUEZONE in Munich, depicts a fully integrated value chain of Italian denim production. The participating companies include ACM Trims, Berto Industria Tessile, the Elleti Group, Fashion Art and Olimpias. The Italian Luster alliance stands for the highest quality, flexibility in production capacities and sustainable innovations.

New partnerships: Bluezone and Transformers foundation

Impulses for positive change – as part of the first cooperation between Bluezone and Transformers, lectures on the core topic of sustainability will be held on two consecutive days. On 30 August, the focus will be on energy and decarbonisation. On the following day, the focus will be on the review and exchange of the Transformer Reports on Unethical Behaviour and Cotton.

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