Textiles might make the fashion garment, but there’s so more for designers and brands to know than just aesthetics. Textile expertise—or “texpertise”—is crucial, as designers and business executives must always be a step ahead on timely industry topics, from raw materials to sourcing, manufacturing, sustainability, forward-looking color and fashion trends, and overall business acumen.
Messe Frankfurt is the global market leader for both textile trade fairs and Texpertise. With more than 50 international textile trade fairs in 13 countries, its Texpertise Network covers the entire textile value chain—research, development, yarns, fabrics, clothing, fashion, contract manufacturing, home and household textiles, technical textiles, processing and cleaning technologies. In apparel fabrics and fashion alone, international shows include Texworld, Apparel Sourcing, Intertextile, Yarn Expo, Allfashion Sourcing, VIATT, NEONYT, Emitex, Avantex and Leatherworld.
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The upcoming U.S. event featuring the co-located shows Texworld NYC and Apparel Sourcing NYC will give attendees a chance to see Texpertise in action. The shows will be held January 21 to 23, 2025 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York.
Messe Frankfurt is committed to future topics and sustainability in the global textile industry, reaching exhibitors and trade visitors from the industry, media professionals, social media multipliers, end consumers and political representatives alike. Focusing on current topics, trends, market analyses and events around the textile business, Texpertise connects more than 500,000 industry professionals from all over the world.
Sustainability: Texpertise Econogy
Sustainability is more than just a buzzword at the shows, but an essential way of business.
Under the term “Texpertise Econogy,” Messe Frankfurt’s sustainability activities provide orientation across trade fairs and internationally. The term “Econogy” fuses economy and ecology in one word and illustrates how crucial sustainability is for the economic success of a company today. It was inspired by a famous quote by Canadian biologist David Suzuki, publicist and winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize: “We’ve got to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.”
Texpertise by Messe Frankfurt helps enable, increases visibility, and is a knowledge partner and guide for the global transformation of the textile industry into an economically successful ESG/SDG-compliant circular economy.
With the unique reach of its numerous textile events around the world, the Texpertise Network has been working for more than 15 years to accelerate innovation and change in the textile and fashion industry. The main goals are to drive the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. To that end, between 2019 and 2023 alone, the company addressed many hundreds of thousands of market participants with its global SDG campaigns.
Overall, the global trade fairs and events bring together interdisciplinary, global communities from across the textile value chain plus their industry partners. On the various platforms, they actively expand and share their knowledge, establish new partnerships and secure their future viability. In addition to the environmental and social components of sustainability, The Texpertise Network also keeps a close eye on the economic side.
An educational blog with stories, market insights and interesting facts also helps educate and inform industry stakeholders leading up to a textile trade show. There, readers can find all the topical and relevant textile news and innovations they need to know with links to relevant articles in esteemed publications.
To learn more about the Texpertise Network, click here. Stay connected with the Texpertise Network on LinkedIn.
