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TW Order Info – Spring/Summer 2022 Sunday, 29 August, 12:00 noon, ‘Alte Schmiedehallen’ An explosion of colour will dominate next summer’s fashions. To what extent will this apply to footwear? What does the new chic look like? How much will stay casual? The answers to these and many more questions during this still challenging order season will be discussed by Gudrun Allstädt and Simone Reiner, both fashion editors for TextilWirtschaft magazine. Speakers: Simone Reiner and Gudrun Allstädt, TextilWirtschaft magazine (Simultaneously interpreted into English) MODEUROP Fashion Forecast – Trends for Autumn/Winter 2022/23 Sunday, 29 August, 3:00 pm, ‘Alte Schmiedehallen’ MODEUROP is the official trend fashion platform and integrated as an organisation into the DSI (German Shoe Institute). With the ColourCard, the ForeCasts and the ColourClubConference, it provides the design and creative studios of shoe and accessory manufacturers with orientation each season. Speaker: Martin Wuttke, nextguruNow. fashion / design / concepts

“Fixed order appointments were key at this edition of Gallery FASHION & Shoes and its accompanying Showroom Concept at the Areal Böhler. Of course we were delighted with the overall level of interest shown, but we still need to increase visitor frequency again at Gallery and in Düsseldorf in general. Retailers need to be able to find all kinds of inspiration and place orders in person. This is the only way forward for us all. In accordance with this are our new accompanying line-ups featuring industry leaders and valuable input focused on all the relevant, pressing issues for the future.” Ulrike Kähler

“We would like to remark to all international buyers: Italian regulations allow you to travel to Italy. The European Commission and the Italian Government have prepared specific plans of action to ease business activities”. SIMAC TANNING TECH, the international exhibition of machines and technologies for Footwear, Leathergoods and Tanning industry, that will be held from 22nd to 24th September 2021 at Milano Fiera Rho, closes the first round of applications with a positive result: more than 200 exhibitor requests, from machinery’ manufacturers and technology providers, to chemical auxiliaries and service suppliers for the Footwear and Leather processing sectors, that are ready for a comeback and to restart from the international stage offered by Simac Tanning Tech, with an exhibition area of roughly 9.000 mq.

Luís Onofre was re-elected for a second two-year term as President of the European Footwear Industry Confederation (CEC), the entity representing the European footwear industry, consisting of 21 thousand companies responsible for 278 thousand jobs. The entrepreneur and designer born in Oliveira de Azeméis, who is also President of the Portuguese Footwear, Components, Leather Goods Manufacturers’ Association, APICCAPS) was unanimously re-elected during the last General Assembly of the CEC, held on the 25th of June. Luís Onofre's first term was marked by an unprecedented economic and health crisis: “These two years were the most difficult for our sector, but we have to look for further opportunities for European footwear to strengthen its status in international markets. Maintaining free and fair trade is our priority, namely a system based on free, fair and balanced trade”, he concluded.