#Textiles & Apparel / Garment

2023-07-20

Premiere for the CHIC Pavillon "Fashion China" at Who's Next

From 2 to 4 September 2023, twenty leading Chinese fashion brands will present themselves for the first time on an international platform under the umbrella of CHIC, China International Fashion Fair. On 900 sqm CHIC presents the FASHION CHINA pavilion at Who's Next with an exquisite selection of Chinese womenswear, menswear, sportswear, and hats.

First presentation of top Chinese fashion brands under the umbrella of CHIC in Paris

CHIC opens new markets: in Shanghai for European brands in Paris for Chinese brands

Exquisite selection of Chinese fashion in high quality and special styles and signatures

A number of China's best designer labels will showcase in Paris their design expertise. Womenswear is represented by Ellassay, Laurèl (founded in Munich, Germany), JNBY, LUO ZHENG, RAXXY (women and men), KEYONE (hats for women, men, kids, no gender), Thread & Story, MAY D.WANG Cashmere & Silk, Yvonne CHOI, SE JIE, VAN SUNSUN, SELAH, EXTENDED, ARYA CASH, JORE BAUDRY, CANMADE and HEMPEL International.

Menswear is represented by KB Hong by K-BOXING and JOEONE. Exclusive sportswear will be shown by FENGGY.

Luo Zheng (Ms.) and Hong Boming with his brand KB Hong by K-BOXING are winners of the Top China Fashion Designer "Jinding Award". Luo Zheng was the first Chinese womenswear designer to show at New York Fashion Wek (2008). KB Hong (K-Boxing) has been organising fashion shows at Milan Fashion Week since 2020.

Ge Feng - with her brand FENGGY, the exclusive sportswear collection -,SELAH and Luo Zheng count to the best 10 China Fashion Designers awarded by the China Fashion Association.

JOEONE, specialist for men's trousers and one of the most successful Chinese fashion brands is represented at Paris Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week. There as well shows RAXXY, China's top downwear brand and first fashion brand to have a fashion show on the Great Wall wowing the international fashion world. Also represented in Milan is Ellassay, one of the most successful womenswear labels in China with annual sales of US$ 300 million.

Cai Yiwen with her label YVONNE-CHOI, Chen Lishan with VAN SUNSUN and Vivian He with SEJIE are among the top 10 fashion designers in Shenzhen, China's fashion metropolis and boomtown, awarded the Fashion Prize of the Shenzhen Fashion Designer Association.

Internationally, many of the brands already sell through online shops such as KeyOne, a multi-brand label with its own museum for hats in China and organiser of the China Hat Festival. An international online shop owns the womenswear label

JNBY, which is already working in parallel with agencies in Japan and Australia. May D. Wang, cashmere & silk specialist, is present in the UK.

FASHION CHINA is planned as a prelude to the presentation on further international platforms and is to complete CHIC's offer as a service point for Chinese fashion brands in the future.

Around 500 exhibitors with international participation from Europe and Asia are expected at the next CHIC in Shanghai from 28 to 30 August. CHIC - China International Fashion Fair is organised by China National Garment Association in cooperation with China World Trade Center Co. Ltd.

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YDC 2026 names winners in Hong Kong

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IFCO Istanbul strengthens international reach with 12,550 trade visitors

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Archroma wins ICIS Innovation Award for sulfur dye breakthrough

Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals, has won a coveted 2026 ICIS Innovation Award for Best Product Innovation from a Large Company for FiberColors®. These high-performance sulfur dyes are synthesized from pre-consumer wool waste, reducing industry reliance on petroleum-based inputs while contributing to the circular economy by upcycling unwanted wool that farmers would otherwise pay to dispose of.

Heberlein reinforces its commitment to the Chinese market

Heberlein, globally recognised as a leading provider of air interlacing and air texturing jets for synthetic filament yarns, is consolidating its success in the Chinese market with its APh- and APe-series for DTY applications. Particularly in the field of Air Covering, Heberlein technologies combine excellent quality with significant savings in compressed-air consumption. A new service hub in Shengze City underlines the company’s long-term commitment in the Chinese market.

RE&UP’s Next-Gen Cotton fibers power Zalando private label t-shirt collection crafted from innovative recycled textiles

RE&UP Recycling Technologies’ Next-Gen Cotton powers a new collection from Zalando’s private labels, marking a step forward in bringing textile-to-textile recycled fibers into commercial fashion production. Launching on Zalando in August, the collection comprises five t-shirts across YOURTURN by Zalando and Even&Odd by Zalando, made from a circular-knit fabric blending 80% organic cotton with 20% RE&UP Next-Gen Cotton — textile-to-textile recycled fiber produced from textile waste. This is the first time RE&UP's recycled fibers feature in Zalando's private label assortment.