The fourth annual Fashion Tech Forum (FTF) took place for the first time ever in Los Angeles. Speakers included Amazon Fashion Director Kate Dimmock and Nike's Chief Design Officer John Hoke.

Is a recovery on, or not? This was the question asked at the shows held in Paris in parallel with the Fashion Week. The session was altogether adequate, though occasionally a little flat.

More and more brands are deserting the Baselworld watch fair held every March, blaming high costs and insufficient returns, while high-end players seek refuge at the rival fair in Geneva.

The dual-gender fashion tradeshow will be held with Project in July and the pre-collections show will be held with Coterie in June.

New York Denim Days will bring two days of shopping, lectures, product history and celebration of denim craftsmanship to American denimheads in a festival-like setting paying tribute to all things denim.

The latest edition of the apparel fabrics trade show in Paris topped the 60,000 visitors mark, and is back on a growth track (+7.5%) thanks to an influx of foreign buyers. 

The three trade shows spotlighted contemporary labels and activewear, but only Coterie gambled on fashion retail's possible new frontier: energy and wellness.

Fashion Forward Dubai (FFWD) is adding a high-powered panel discussion to its showroom in Paris. To discuss: The Globalization of Fashion: Value Creation Through Business Exchange Between Dubai and Paris. 

The Milanese fair has been incorporated into the Shanghai Fashion Week calendar with the 'Style Routes to Shanghai' project, which will see 56 Made in Italy companies showcased next to the On Time trade show. 

While fashion week and fashion professionals will head from New York to London soon, the eyewear business, including thirty thousand professionals, will descend to mingle, learn and shop on September 14.

16 British fashion designers will be showcased as part of London Show Rooms Paris at the first edition of Tranoï Week during Paris Fashion Week, the brands announced on Thursday.

Surf Expo has announced it has cut the final day of this season's trade show taking place in Orlando in anticipation of Hurricane Irma making landfall in Florida this weekend. The show will now end on Friday at 5pm. 

The 20-odd trade shows that packed the August calendar in Las Vegas, including Magic, were hybrids of business-to-business show events with direct-to-consumer activities, most with eclectic mixed results. 

The Munich event will showcase more than 1,000 exhibitors from 36 countries, presenting 1,700 fabric and fashion collections for the men's, women's, children's, denim and sportswear markets.

Relaunched by Vog group, the Parisian fashion brand is looking to make itself known again with the release of a mega campaign starring Pamela Anderson and Gabriel Kane.